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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August 17, 2019
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Louis Carter named as a Top 10 Global Guru in the Field of Organizational Culture

Louis Carter, Founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute and author of the recent book, In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance and Create an Emotionally Connected Workplace (McGraw-Hill, 2019) has been named as a top 10 Organizational Culture Professional on the 2019 Global Gurus list. The awards will be presented at the Global […]

Louis Carter

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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Louis Carter, Founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute and author of the recent book, In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance and Create an Emotionally Connected Workplace (McGraw-Hill, 2019) has been named as a top 10 Organizational Culture Professional on the 2019 Global Gurus list. The awards will be presented at the Global Gurus Awards Gala on July 6, 2019.

The Global Gurus List ranks the top 30 of the world’s best experts in various fields like Leadership, Coaching, Organizational Culture, NLP and more. The Global Gurus List is compiled of 16 categories from around the world and is the only list that acknowledges non-English speaking gurus and gurus in third world countries making an impact for their contribution to the world.

“It is an honor to be named along some of the founders of our field, and my early mentors, and now peers,” says Carter. “Having worked with companies throughout the world in Asia, The Middle East and Europe, in addition to North America reinforces that the most successful organizations, regardless of where they are, share a common value of their most important asset, their people.”

The Global Gurus List is determined by criteria consisting of Public opinion (30%), Originality of ideas (30%), Impact of original ideas (10%), Practicality of ideas (10%), Presentation style (10%), Number of publications and writings (5%) and Guru factor (5%).

For more about Global Gurus, visit https://globalgurus.org/organizational-culture-gurus-30/

About Louis Carter

Louis Carter is CEO and President of Best Practice Institute, a benchmark research consortium, association, and management consulting firm that helps organizations and C-suite senior executives achieve their market strategy through talent and change management. His books include Change Champions, Best Practices in Talent Management, Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change, and Leading the Global Workforce. He has spoken at universities and institutions from Beijing to the United States to Hong Kong and Dubai and has been quoted and profiled by Fast Company, Investor’s Business Daily, Forbes, Pando Daily, and CIO Magazine. His research and teaching have been translated across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North and South America. His numerous advisor, facilitation, and acceleration roles focus on public relations, research, and technology consulting. His newest book is In Great Company: How to Achieve Peak Performance by Creating an Emotionally Connected Workplace (McGraw Hill, February 2019). Learn more at https://louiscarter.com.

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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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