Bucket List
Our Bucket List is a collection of pioneers, rebels and revolutionaries—made up of organizations, entrepreneurs, academics and business leaders who change the status quo of frustrating workplaces. They know how to make work more fun.
While checking off our Bucket List, we visit them. We learn from them. We share their insights. They inspire change to better, more inspiring workplaces. Check out the full list below. Click on the ones we’ve already visited, and read our findings.
Freitag 
Manufacturer of bags made from used truck tarp.
Fons Trompenaars
Professor at VU University Amsterdam, author of "Riding The Waves of Culture" & "Managing People Across Cultures".
Nucor
American steel manufacturer
Lisa Jaspers
Founder and CEO of Folkdays.com - online shop for fair trade fashion accessories.
Kees Klomp
Author of 'De Betekenisecomonie'. Activist for the 'purpose economy' - a more purpose-drive approach to running organizations.
The Ready
American organizational design consultants.
SS Natu Plastics and Metals
Indian manufacturing company working without managers and time tracking for 3 decades.
Silke Bishop
Changemaker within a charity providing residential care for children and young people in Berlin.
Valve
American video game developer.
Lucia Martin
Pioneering within health care at self-managed birthing house Delphys.
Nand Kishore Chaudhary
Chairman at Jaipur Rugs.
Daniel Urban
Co-founder and CEO of Sente.
Emmanuele Duez
Founder and president of WoMen'Up.
Odd-e
Singapore based training company with radical transparency, self-set salaries, and no bosses.
Mayden
Self-managed health care technology company.
Ankur Gupta
CEO at Axelerant - a fully remote Indian based software company that's pushing the envelope on progressive workplaces.
Lisa Gill
Author and podcaster on progressive ways of working. Author of Moose Heads On The Table.
Grupo Anga
Fully remote, progressive group of companies in Brazil.
10Pines
A software company with no-bosses, 80+ people, an open-book management policy, and consent decision making.
Garry Ridge
CEO of WD-40, co-author "Helping People Win at Work".
Christobal Colon
Spanish psychologist, CEO of La Fageda.
Sente
Progressive IT company based in Poland.
Mainfreight
Global logistics provider
Ben Kuiken
Author of "De Laatste Manager" & "Fuck de Regels".
August
Organizational design consultancy focused on new ways of working.
Kazuma Sekiya
CEO of DISCO Corporation, a Japanese company known for its pioneering management practices.
Versa
Australian voice and digital agency.
Centiro
Swedish software company working for decades with self-managing teams, servant leadership and a freedom-oriented workplace.
Good Rebels
Spanish consulting firm.
Chris Rufer
Founder of Morning Star.
SRC Holdings
Employee owned manufacturing company & home of "The Great Game of Business" (or open book management)
Xavier Huillard
CEO of Vinci SA.
Premium Cola
German soft-drink brand known for consensus democracy, equal wages, and working without contracts.
Tendayi Viki
Author, speaker and researcher on how corporates can innovate like startups.
Sol
Family business offering maintenance and supporting services.
Niverplast
Dutch packaging machines manufacturer.
Professor at London Business School, author of "Leading the Revolution", "The Future of Management" & "What Matters Now".
Einhorn
Condom manufacturer working with radical transparency, distributed decision-making and little hierarchy.
WD40
Manufacturer of household and multi-use products.
Jaipur Rugs
India's largest manufacturers of hand knotted rugs.
Luthern Williams
Diversity advocate and pioneer as Principal at New Roads school in Santa Monica, US.
Bakker van Maanen
Dutch bakery chain.
Bushe
Russian bakery.
Cooperative Gestión Participativa
Cooperative with 700 associated workers but no directors, bosses, or managers.
Naomi Ryland
Co-Founder and Managing Director at tbd* - a self-managing company acting as a digital hub for purposeful work.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Professor at Havard Business School, author of "Men and women of the corporation" & "Innovation: the classic traps".
Barry-Wehmiller
A global supplier of manufacturing technology and services.
Manas
IT company with progressive and highly participative ways of working.
Qiwi
Russian bank.
Stanley McCrystal
Former U.S. Army general, author of "Team of Teams".
Yves Morieux
Director for BCG's Institute for Organization, author of "Six Simple Rules".
Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Group and author of various books (i.e. Like a Virgin).
Erika James
Dean of The Wharton School, organizational psychologist and expert on workplace diversity.
Bob Chapman
Chairman & CEO of Barry-Wehmiller
Jason Fried
Founder & CEO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, REWORK, Remote, and “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work”.
Sharmadean Reid
Founder and CEO at Beautystack.
Helen Bevan
Chief Transformation Officer at NHS Horizons.
Delphys
Birthing house led by a self-managed group of midwifes with shared ownership and radical transparency.
Kazuo Inamori
Japanese philanthropist, entrepreneur and the founder of Kyocera and KDDI.
La Fageda
Spanish dairy farm.
Megan Reitz
Professor at Ashridge Hult, author of "Speak Up".
Hamdi Ulukaya
Owner and CEO of yoghurt company Chobani.
Bunnik Plants
Dutch plant nursery.
Mike Arauz
Co-founder August.
Dee Hock
Founder and former CEO of Visa, author of "One from Many".
Mariana Mazzucato
UCL Professor and Director of Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose.
Basecamp
American IT company formally known as 37signals.
OneDay
A group of companies providing IT services.
James Watt
Co-founder of BrewDog, author of "Business for Punks".
Eddie Obeng
Organisational theorist, educator, author and professor.
Mathieu Weggeman
Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, author of "Managing Professionals? Don't!"
Mastek
Indian technology company practicing principles of self-management.
Massimo Bottura
Italian restaurateur and chef patron of 3 Michelin-star restaurant Osteria Francescana.
Krys Burnette
Changemaker around new ways of working & Director Digital Transformation and Culture at Adidas.
Adam Davids
Diversity advocate and pioneer at CareerTrackers.
HCL Technologies
Indian multinational IT service and consulting firm.
Henry Mintzberg
Professor at McGill University, author of many management books.
WP Haton
Dutch baking equipment manufacturer.
Mondora
Software solutions company (and B Corp) working in a self-organized way.
Futurice
Finnish consulting firm.
Professor at London Business School, author of "Reinventing Management", "Giant Steps in Management" & "Becoming a Better Boss".
Mindera
A Portuguese software development company with no traditional hierarchy, distributed decision-making, and radical transparency.
Francesca Gino
Professor at Havard Business School, author of "Rebel Talent".
Dharmu Vanjani
CEO at SS Natu Plastics & Metals. Pioneering liberated workplaces in India.
Fredrik Palmgren
Co-founder of Centigo and Business Wellness Group, a bossless consulting firm with approximately 400 colleagues.
Aaron Dignan
Founder The Ready, author of "Brave New Work".
Carlos Saba
Co-founder of The Happy Startup School.
Arnaud Collery
Founder of Stand Up For Passion.
Tunali Tec
Self-managing Mexican company working in the textile industry.
Mirai Industry
Japanese manufacturing company of all sorts of technical equipment.
Goodwood
Russian house manufacturer.
W.L Gore
Multinational manufacturing company most known for it's Gore-Tex material.
DISCO Corporation
Japanese manufacturing company known for its P-Will management system.
Alexander Kjerulf
Founder of Woohoo Inc., author of "Happy Hour Is 9 To 5".
John Lewis
Chain of high-end department stores operating throughout the United Kingdom.
Virgin
British multinational conglomerate founded by Richard Branson.
SEMrush
Russian IT company.
Jack Stack
Founder and CEO of SRC, author of "The Great Game of Business".
Karin Tenelius
Founder Tuff Leadership Training and experienced changemaker in implementing self-management.
Hoxby
Network of more than 1,000 freelancers who work remotely in 30 countries around the world.
Vineet Nayar
Former CEO of HCL Technologies, author of "Employees First, Customers Second".
Beetroot
Ukrainian IT company.
Qualia
Mexican self-managing company that grows and sells papaya seeds.
Anna Yona
Co-Founder of Wildling Shoes - a fully remote progressive company providing sustainable footwear.
Gravity Payments
American financial services company.
Adam Grant
Organizational psychologist, Wharton Professor, and author of "Originals".
tbd*
A self-managing company providing a platform to connect people with purposeful jobs.
Raj Sisodia
Founding member of the Conscious Capitalism movement.
Unity Group
Progressive Polish IT company with self-organised teams, democracy, and distributed decision-making - among many other things.
Wildling Shoes
Wildling develops minimal shoes produced under fair conditions. The staff – now numbering 140 employees – works remotely, organized as a decentralized team.
Supercell
Gaming company with a pioneering organizational structure
Mindbox
Russian IT company.
David Burkus
Associate professor of Oral Roberts University and author of "Under New Management".
Upstalsboom
German hotel chain.
Dominic Jackman
Co-founder of Escape the City.
JetBrains
Czech Software company
Richard Nieuwenhuis
After sales engineer at packing machine manufacturer Niverplast.
Bill Fischer
Professor at IMD, author of "Reinventing Giants".
Former financial controller at Morning Star, author of "Beyond Empowerment" & "The No-Limits Enterprise".
Netflix
American media-services provider and production company.
David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Founder & CTO at Basecamp. Co-author of Getting Real, REWORK, Remote, and “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work”.
Atlassian
Australian software company.
Uwe Lübbermann
Founder and central moderator of soft-drink brand Premium Cola
Jean Oelwang
CEO Virgin Unite.
Lynda Sagona
CEO and facilitator of the ongoing transformation at United Welsh.
Amy Edmondson
Professor at Harvard Business School, author of "Teaming" & "The Fearless Organization".
Dan Price
CEO of Gravity Payments.
Axelerant
Fully remote IT company with around 110 team members.