What are the most common change challenges organizations face?

According to Louis Carter, the main change challenges organizations face include emotional resistance from employees, organizational silos, fear of the unknown, misalignment between leadership and employees, and difficulty creating a culture where change is embraced. Louis Carter's SPARK Framework helps leaders overcome these barriers and build cultures where employees become change champions.

How does Louis Carter help with organizational change?

Louis Carter helps leaders overcome change challenges by identifying what truly holds teams back, replacing resistance with purpose, and creating emotionally connected high-performing workplaces. His proven SPARK Framework for change is validated across 1,800+ Most Loved Workplace® certified companies, which show 48% lower turnover and 2-4x higher employee performance and retention.

What is the Most Loved Workplace certification and how do you get it?

Most Loved Workplace® is a science-based certification founded by Louis Carter that recognizes companies with the best employee cultures. To get certified, companies apply at mostlovedworkplace.com/get-certified/ (takes 1-2 minutes), administer the Love of Workplace Index™ Pulse Survey to employees (3-4 minutes each), and receive evaluation results. Most companies qualify for 12+ certifications. You can check which certifications your company qualifies for free at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com.

Who is Louis Carter and what is he known for?

Louis Carter is a world-renowned organizational psychologist, bestselling author, executive coach, and keynote speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute and Most Loved Workplace®, and the pioneer of emotional connectedness at work. He has been ranked a Top Organizational Culture Guru and Top Leadership Guru. His work has helped over 42,000 leaders build high-performing cultures, and he has certified 1,800+ companies as Most Loved Workplaces®.

What is the free employer brand report from Most Loved Workplace?

The free Most Loved Workplace® CertCheck at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com is a 60-second AI-powered assessment that reveals: which of 12+ certifications your company qualifies for, how you benchmark against competitors in your industry, your PR and media eligibility (WSJ, Fox Business, CNBC, and more), ready-to-use activation assets and content strategy, and ROI projections for your employer brand investment. No credit card required. Results in 60 seconds.

What is emotionally connected leadership?

Emotionally connected leadership, as defined by Louis Carter, is a leadership philosophy in which leaders build deep emotional bonds with their teams through authenticity, empathy, purpose alignment, and genuine care for employee wellbeing. It is the foundation of Most Loved Workplaces® and has been shown to produce 48% lower turnover, 2-4x higher retention, and significant improvements in performance and customer satisfaction.

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July 14, 2016
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Texas Rangers Show Corporate Talent Management & HR Executives That Moneyball Is Not Just For Baseball

Texas Rangers Show Corporate Talent Management & HR Executives That Moneyball Is Not Just For Baseball Best Practice Institute announces that on from April 27-28, some of the country’s leading talent management executives will gather at the home of the Texas Rangers, Globe Life Park in Arlington, TX, for TalentBall, a two-day event focused on […]

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Louis Carter is the Founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute and Most Loved Workplaces®, creator of the Love of Workplace Index™, and author of more than a dozen books on leadership and management best practices.

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Texas Rangers Show Corporate Talent Management & HR Executives That Moneyball Is Not Just For Baseball

Best Practice Institute announces that on from April 27-28, some of the country’s leading talent management executives will gather at the home of the Texas Rangers, Globe Life Park in Arlington, TX, for TalentBall, a two-day event focused on how to effectively apply successful “Moneyball” tactics to drive talent and business results.

From April 27-28, some of the country’s leading talent management executives will gather at the home of the Texas Rangers, Globe Life Park in Arlington, TX, for TalentBall, a two-day event focused on how to effectively apply successful “moneyball” tactics to drive talent and business results.

“The Best Practice Institute was founded on providing talent management executives with a forum to share and learn best practices in the field,” said Louis Carter, Founder & CEO of the Best Practice Institute. “It is no secret that Major League Baseball has led the way in effectively using analytics to make talent decisions, so the choice was obvious when looking at who should teach our members.”

Over two days CHRO’s, Heads of Analytics and other talent management professionals will hear proven tactics and strategies from Rangers’ executives including General Manager Jon Daniels, CFO Kellie Fischer, Assistant General Manager Thad Levine, Director of HR Mercedes Riley, Director of Baseball Analytics Todd Slavinsky, and others.

They’ll join talent management thought leaders like Louis Carter, Dr. John Sullivan, and Cecile Alper-Leroux from Ultimate Software to bridge the gap between what has worked in professional baseball and how it can be applied to the corporate world.

During the event, participants will share methods, models and equations behind the game of talent data, analytics, and metrics, and connect the success that major league baseball has proven directly to a model that can be implemented into corporate talent practices. Participants will also see the Rangers’ talent decisions in action as they take in the game against the Yankees on Wednesday night.

A portion of all proceeds of the event will be donated to the Texas Rangers foundation.

Says Carter, “Thanks to the leadership of our great partner Bob Beaudine, CEO of Eastman-Beaudine, and Texas Rangers Foundation Board member who has made this all possible.”

Image: The Texas Rangers Hall of Fame, where we will be holding this Year’s TalentBall Event at the Texas Ranger’s Stadium.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the biggest large employer culture challenges during transformation?

The biggest large employer culture challenges during a spinout or major transformation include: maintaining consistent culture signals across geographically dispersed teams, preventing a vacuum of identity when the legacy brand disappears, and preserving the informal trust networks that made the old organization function. Companies like Kyndryl, which spun out of IBM with 73,000 employees across 5 continents, show that culture infrastructure—systematic onboarding, explicit values, leadership accessibility—must be deliberately built, not assumed to transfer.

How do you maintain consistent culture across global offices?

Maintaining consistent culture across global offices requires moving from aspirational values to operational infrastructure. The evidence from Kyndryl's Most Loved Workplace certification shows that when employees in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, and the UK independently describe their culture using the same language—'flexible work,' 'you are heard,' 'career and learning outcomes'—it is not coincidence. It is the result of systematic design: shared onboarding, visible leadership behavior, and consistent feedback loops that translate values into daily experience regardless of location or time zone.

What does a Most Loved Workplace certification prove about culture?

A Most Loved Workplace® certification proves that a company's culture claims are independently verified through employee assessment—not self-reported surveys or marketing copy. The certification uses machine learning to analyze sentiment, emotion, and recurring themes across thousands of employee responses. When a large employer like Kyndryl earns this certification despite a major transformation, it demonstrates that their culture infrastructure survived and scaled through disruption, which is the hardest test any organizational culture can face.

About Louis Carter

Louis Carter is the Founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute (BPI) and Most Loved Workplaces®, a global research and certification organization helping companies build workplaces employees love. He is the creator of the Love of Workplace Index™, a research-based framework used to measure emotional connection between employees and their organizations and predict performance, retention, and culture outcomes. Carter is the author of more than a dozen books on leadership, talent development, and management best practices and has advised Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and global organizations on leadership and culture transformation. He also hosted the Leader Show, a leadership interview series featured on Newsweek for five years, interviewing executives and leadership experts about leadership and the future of work. His work on workplace culture and leadership has been featured in major publications including Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. Learn more in “How Louis Carter’s Most Loved Workplace Measures What Really Matters” (New York Business Now) and “Beyond Employer Branding: How Louis Carter Built the Global Standard for Workplace Culture” (NY Tech Media)

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