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Meet Louis Carter, the visionary organizational psychologist transforming how companies approach employee engagement, recruitment and retention. As founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute, Louis created the groundbreaking Most Loved Workplace® methodology and the MLW HR analytics platform that’s revolutionizing corporate culture.
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Louis Carter, world-renowned organizational psychologist and founder/CEO of Best Practice Institute, has helped thousands of companies achieve Most Loved Workplace® certification through the MLW HR analytics platform and Love of Workplace Index.
Author of 12 leadership books including “In Great Company” (McGraw Hill) and creator of the prestigious Most Loved Workplaces lists published in Newsweek, Carter’s research shows that certified organizations experience up to 94% higher retention and 2-4x greater productivity.
Great leadership is the cornerstone of a thriving workplace culture. When leaders effectively coach, guide, and inspire their teams—even during challenging times—employee engagement soars and business results follow.
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Louis Carter is a world-renowned organizational psychologist, founder, and CEO of best practice institute, most loved workplace, the MLW hr analytics and machine learning saas platform, and love of workplace index used by thousands of companies to certify and develop most loved workplaces.
Carter is the author of 12 books on leadership, including in great company, published by McGraw Hill, the most loved workplaces lists published in Newsweek, and host of the leader show on Newsweek.
A critical factor driving success in the corporate world is strong leadership. A great leader, even in the most challenging environments, can coach, guide, inspire, and maintain team spirit.
I’ve had the pleasure of offering leadership coaching to executives in several Fortune 500 companies and governments, including the U.S. Department of Defense and the United Nations.
Sandy Wells
Chairman, Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, and Editor-in-Chief, Leader to Leader Journal
Lou is an experienced leadership and human resource development professional with
A keen ability to link business and human resource strategy. A “big picture” thinker, he is creative and innovative. He quickly grasps the nature of organizational challenges; his solutions are practical and actionable. Lou personifies high energy and action!
Ray Williams
CEO Springfield Clinic
Lou has helped me with my Executive Team, Board of Directors and my leadership in immeasurable ways.
He provides help on all aspects of business. Lou has facilitated, coached, advised me, my board and team and provided many more business and HR services beyond executive coaching with exceptional results that we would never have achieved otherwise.
Karen Dyson
Lt. General, US Army (retired)
Carter’s guidance through best practices checklists and immediate action steps
Give every leader a place to start or improve leadership skills, build effective teams, continue to grow and, ultimately, achieve positive results.
Hubert Joly
Chairman and CEO, Best Buy
Louis Carter explores the humanity of an organization and the importance of emotional connectedness —
Offering a set of frameworks and a plethora of practical examples and approaches that can help unleash the power of the people and extraordinary performance.
Brian Bules
Head of Talent, GSK
Lou has an extraordinary ability to see the big picture
To understand how leaders, teams and organizations can achieve remarkable results.
Marshall Goldsmith
Rated #1 Executive Coach and best selling author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Leaders and managers are going to fall in love with Louis Carter’s coaching…
Louis gives you a simple process to become a better and more effective leader through his own methods of co-creating and achieving real tangible goals.
Sandy Wells
Chairman, Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, and Editor-in-Chief, Leader to Leader Journal
Lou is an experienced leadership and human resource development professional with
A keen ability to link business and human resource strategy. A “big picture” thinker, he is creative and innovative. He quickly grasps the nature of organizational challenges; his solutions are practical and actionable. Lou personifies high energy and action!
Ray Williams
CEO Springfield Clinic
Lou has helped me with my Executive Team, Board of Directors and my leadership in immeasurable ways.
He provides help on all aspects of business. Lou has facilitated, coached, advised me, my board and team and provided many more business and HR services beyond executive coaching with exceptional results that we would never have achieved otherwise.
Karen Dyson
Lt. General, US Army (retired)
Carter’s guidance through best practices checklists and immediate action steps
Give every leader a place to start or improve leadership skills, build effective teams, continue to grow and, ultimately, achieve positive results.
Hubert Joly
Chairman and CEO, Best Buy
Louis Carter explores the humanity of an organization and the importance of emotional connectedness —
Offering a set of frameworks and a plethora of practical examples and approaches that can help unleash the power of the people and extraordinary performance.
Brian Bules
Head of Talent, GSK
Lou has an extraordinary ability to see the big picture
To understand how leaders, teams and organizations can achieve remarkable results.
Marshall Goldsmith
Rated #1 Executive Coach and best selling author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Leaders and managers are going to fall in love with Louis Carter’s coaching…
Louis gives you a simple process to become a better and more effective leader through his own methods of co-creating and achieving real tangible goals.
Sandy Wells
Chairman, Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, and Editor-in-Chief, Leader to Leader Journal
Lou is an experienced leadership and human resource development professional with
A keen ability to link business and human resource strategy. A “big picture” thinker, he is creative and innovative. He quickly grasps the nature of organizational challenges; his solutions are practical and actionable. Lou personifies high energy and action!
Ray Williams
CEO Springfield Clinic
Lou has helped me with my Executive Team, Board of Directors and my leadership in immeasurable ways.
He provides help on all aspects of business. Lou has facilitated, coached, advised me, my board and team and provided many more business and HR services beyond executive coaching with exceptional results that we would never have achieved otherwise.
Karen Dyson
Lt. General, US Army (retired)
Carter’s guidance through best practices checklists and immediate action steps
Give every leader a place to start or improve leadership skills, build effective teams, continue to grow and, ultimately, achieve positive results.
Hubert Joly
Chairman and CEO, Best Buy
Louis Carter explores the humanity of an organization and the importance of emotional connectedness —
Offering a set of frameworks and a plethora of practical examples and approaches that can help unleash the power of the people and extraordinary performance.
Brian Bules
Head of Talent, GSK
Lou has an extraordinary ability to see the big picture
To understand how leaders, teams and organizations can achieve remarkable results.
Marshall Goldsmith
Rated #1 Executive Coach and best selling author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
Leaders and managers are going to fall in love with Louis Carter’s coaching…
Louis gives you a simple process to become a better and more effective leader through his own methods of co-creating and achieving real tangible goals.
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When it comes to involving others to co-creating, get in the mindset of putting others first. Focus on the design of the communication to get
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When it comes to involving others to co-creating, get in the mindset of putting others first. Focus on the design of the communication to get
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