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.
Sente
Progressive IT company based in Poland.
Supercell
Gaming company with a pioneering organizational structure
Jack Stack
Founder and CEO of SRC, author of "The Great Game of Business".
SRC Holdings
Employee owned manufacturing company & home of "The Great Game of Business" (or open book management)
Eddie Obeng
Organisational theorist, educator, author and professor.
Naomi Ryland
Co-Founder and Managing Director at tbd* - a self-managing company acting as a digital hub for purposeful work.
Helen Bevan
Chief Transformation Officer at NHS Horizons.
Dunia Reverter 
Co-Founder of Krisos
Qualia
Mexican self-managing company that grows and sells papaya seeds.
Amy Edmondson
Professor at Harvard Business School, author of "Teaming" & "The Fearless Organization".
Beetroot
Ukrainian IT company.
Vineet Nayar
Former CEO of HCL Technologies, author of "Employees First, Customers Second".
Henry Mintzberg
Professor at McGill University, author of many management books.
Centiro
Swedish software company working for decades with self-managing teams, servant leadership and a freedom-oriented workplace.
P4Q
Manufacturer of electronics with factories in Spain, USA & China.
Premium Cola
German soft-drink brand known for consensus democracy, equal wages, and working without contracts.
Bakker van Maanen
Dutch bakery chain.
HCL Technologies
Indian multinational IT service and consulting firm.
Lisa Gill
Author and podcaster on progressive ways of working. Author of Moose Heads On The Table.
Manas
IT company with progressive and highly participative ways of working.
Nucor
American steel manufacturer
Dharmu Vanjani
CEO at SS Natu Plastics & Metals. Pioneering liberated workplaces in India.
Valve
American video game developer.
Futurice
Finnish consulting firm.
Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Group and author of various books (i.e. Like a Virgin).
Jaipur Rugs
India's largest manufacturers of hand knotted rugs.
Adam Davids
Diversity advocate and pioneer at CareerTrackers.
Gravity Payments
American financial services company.
Bob Chapman
Chairman & CEO of Barry-Wehmiller
Alexander Kjerulf
Founder of Woohoo Inc., author of "Happy Hour Is 9 To 5".
Grupo Anga
Fully remote, progressive group of companies in Brazil.
Bunnik Plants
Dutch plant nursery.
Lisa Jaspers
Founder and CEO of Folkdays.com - online shop for fair trade fashion accessories.
WP Haton
Dutch baking equipment manufacturer.
Lucia Martin
Pioneering within health care at self-managed birthing house Delphys.
Goodwood
Russian house manufacturer.
Mastek
Indian technology company practicing principles of self-management.
WD40
Manufacturer of household and multi-use products.
Mindera
A Portuguese software development company with no traditional hierarchy, distributed decision-making, and radical transparency.
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.
Fredrik Palmgren
Co-founder of Centigo and Business Wellness Group, a bossless consulting firm with approximately 400 colleagues.
Tendayi Viki
Author, speaker and researcher on how corporates can innovate like startups.
Silke Bishop
Changemaker within a charity providing residential care for children and young people in Berlin.
Cooperative Gestión Participativa
Cooperative with 700 associated workers but no directors, bosses, or managers.
Luthern Williams
Diversity advocate and pioneer as Principal at New Roads school in Santa Monica, US.
Professor at London Business School, author of "Reinventing Management", "Giant Steps in Management" & "Becoming a Better Boss".
Good Rebels
Spanish consulting firm.
Stanley McCrystal
Former U.S. Army general, author of "Team of Teams".
Francesca Gino
Professor at Havard Business School, author of "Rebel Talent".
Mirai Industry
Japanese manufacturing company of all sorts of technical equipment.
Dee Hock
Founder and former CEO of Visa, author of "One from Many".
DISCO Corporation
Japanese manufacturing company known for its P-Will management system.
Netflix
American media-services provider and production company.
Mayden
Self-managed health care technology company.
Bill Fischer
Professor at IMD, author of "Reinventing Giants".
Sol
Family business offering maintenance and supporting services.
Professor at London Business School, author of "Leading the Revolution", "The Future of Management" & "What Matters Now".
Uwe Lübbermann
Founder and central moderator of soft-drink brand Premium Cola
Yves Morieux
Director for BCG's Institute for Organization, author of "Six Simple Rules".
Megan Reitz
Professor at Ashridge Hult, author of "Speak Up".
Emmanuele Duez
Founder and president of WoMen'Up.
Axelerant
Fully remote IT company with around 110 team members.
Chris Rufer
Founder of Morning Star.
Christobal Colon
Spanish psychologist, CEO of La Fageda.
Delphys
Birthing house led by a self-managed group of midwifes with shared ownership and radical transparency.
La Fageda
Spanish dairy farm.
Versa
Australian voice and digital agency.
David Burkus
Associate professor of Oral Roberts University and author of "Under New Management".
Massimo Bottura
Italian restaurateur and chef patron of 3 Michelin-star restaurant Osteria Francescana.
Niverplast
Dutch packaging machines manufacturer.
Sharmadean Reid
Founder and CEO at Beautystack.
Fons Trompenaars
Professor at VU University Amsterdam, author of "Riding The Waves of Culture" & "Managing People Across Cultures".
Tunali Tec
Self-managing Mexican company working in the textile industry.
Freitag
Manufacturer of bags made from used truck tarp.
10Pines
A software company with no-bosses, 80+ people, an open-book management policy, and consent decision making.
Bushe
Russian bakery.
Unity Group
Progressive Polish IT company with self-organised teams, democracy, and distributed decision-making - among many other things.
Vincit
Finnish technology company known for its radical transparency and 'Leadership as a Service'.
W.L Gore
Multinational manufacturing company most known for it's Gore-Tex material.
Karin Tenelius
Founder Tuff Leadership Training and experienced changemaker in implementing self-management.
The Ready
American organizational design consultants.
Basetis
Self-managing IT company.
Upstalsboom
German hotel chain.
Mindbox
Russian IT company.
Atlassian
Australian software company.
Dan Price
CEO of Gravity Payments.
Arnaud Collery
Founder of Stand Up For Passion.
Virgin
British multinational conglomerate founded by Richard Branson.
Wildling Shoes
Wildling develops minimal shoes produced under fair conditions. The staff – now numbering 140 employees – works remotely, organized as a decentralized team.
Jean Oelwang
CEO Virgin Unite.
Qiwi
Russian bank.
Ben Kuiken
Author of "De Laatste Manager" & "Fuck de Regels".
Einhorn
Condom manufacturer working with radical transparency, distributed decision-making and little hierarchy.
SEMrush
Russian IT company.
Ankur Gupta
CEO at Axelerant - a fully remote Indian based software company that's pushing the envelope on progressive workplaces.
August
Organizational design consultancy focused on new ways of working.
Adam Grant
Organizational psychologist, Wharton Professor, and author of "Originals".
JetBrains
Czech Software company
John Lewis
Chain of high-end department stores operating throughout the United Kingdom.
Hoxby
Network of more than 1,000 freelancers who work remotely in 30 countries around the world.
Mike Arauz
Co-founder August.
Anna Yona
Co-Founder of Wildling Shoes - a fully remote progressive company providing sustainable footwear.
Mainfreight
Global logistics provider
OneDay
A group of companies providing IT services.
Kazuo Inamori
Japanese philanthropist, entrepreneur and the founder of Kyocera and KDDI.
Odd-e
Singapore based training company with radical transparency, self-set salaries, and no bosses.
Raj Sisodia
Founding member of the Conscious Capitalism movement.
Richard Nieuwenhuis
After sales engineer at packing machine manufacturer Niverplast.
Aaron Dignan
Founder The Ready, author of "Brave New Work".
Mariana Mazzucato
UCL Professor and Director of Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose.
Erika James
Dean of The Wharton School, organizational psychologist and expert on workplace diversity.
Kees Klomp
Author of 'De Betekenisecomonie'. Activist for the 'purpose economy' - a more purpose-drive approach to running organizations.
Lynda Sagona
CEO and facilitator of the ongoing transformation at United Welsh.
Krys Burnette
Changemaker around new ways of working & Director Digital Transformation and Culture at Adidas.
Xavier Huillard
CEO of Vinci SA.
Hamdi Ulukaya
Owner and CEO of yoghurt company Chobani.
Erin Meyer
Author of 'The Culture Map' and professor at INSEAD Business School.
Futureplay
A self-managed mobile game studio based in Helsinki.
Carlos Saba
Co-founder of The Happy Startup School.
SS Natu Plastics and Metals
Indian manufacturing company working without managers and time tracking for 3 decades.
Mondora
Software solutions company (and B Corp) working in a self-organized way.
Former financial controller at Morning Star, author of "Beyond Empowerment" & "The No-Limits Enterprise".
Mathieu Weggeman
Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, author of "Managing Professionals? Don't!"
Garry Ridge
CEO of WD-40, co-author "Helping People Win at Work".
tbd*
A self-managing company providing a platform to connect people with purposeful jobs.
Kazuma Sekiya
CEO of DISCO Corporation, a Japanese company known for its pioneering management practices.
Daniel Urban
Co-founder and CEO of Sente.
Dominic Jackman
Co-founder of Escape the City.
