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