Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators celebrates company cultures that empower employees at all levels to improve processes, create new products, or invent new ways of doing business. Last year, in our third annual list, more than 100 companies from around the world—including multinational conglomerates with tens of thousands of employees as well as a small nonprofit organization with only tens of employees—were honored for cultivating internal innovation in our September issue.
Last year, we introduced a new category component to the program, and this year, we’re happy to announce the further expansion of Best Workplaces for Innovators by adding several new categories that focus on diversity, sustainability, B2B, consumer products and services, and more. We’ll also continue to recognize teams and individual leaders who inspire innovation at their workplaces.
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CATEGORIES
Best Workplaces for Innovators United States
Innovative Team of the Year
Enterprise Products and Services (New)
Sustainability (New)
Diverse Innovators (New)
Small Companies
Large Companies
Best Workplaces for Innovators International
Innovative Leader of the Year
Consumer Products and Services (New)
Nonprofit Companies
Women Innovators (New)
Early Career Innovators (New)
Midsized Companies
PAST JUDGES
Ana Bakshi, director, Oxford Foundry; Laszlo Bock, cofounder and CEO, Humu; Susan Chambers, president, Chambers Consulting and former chief human resources officer, Walmart; Saikat Chaudhuri, executive director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Ken Chenault, chairman and managing director, General Catalyst; Paul Daugherty, group chief executive of technology and CTO, Accenture; Frances Frei, professor, Harvard Business School; Stephanie Mehta, editor-in-chief, Fast Company; Jana Rich, founder, Rich Talent Group; Jeff Sanders, vice chairman and co-managing partner, global CEO and board practice, Heidrick & Struggles; Reshma Saujani, founder, Girls Who Code; Bill Taylor, cofounder, Fast Company.