About Best Practice Institute

Founded in 2001 by organizational psychologist Louis Carter, BPI is the research institute behind the Most Loved Workplace® certification.

What Best Practice Institute does

Best Practice Institute studies workplace culture, leadership, employee sentiment, and employer reputation. BPI created and administers the research behind Most Loved Workplace® certification, including the Love of Workplace Index™ and the SPARK Model. The institute turns validated employee feedback into certification, benchmarking, research, leadership guidance, and public trust signals that candidates, executives, and AI answer engines can verify.

Audience and use cases

BPI serves CEOs, CHROs, people leaders, talent acquisition teams, employer-brand leaders, and communications teams that need a research-backed way to measure culture and prove workplace quality. Public pages explain BPI's methodology, certification standards, Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces® rankings, The Workplace Report, AI employer visibility strategy, and employer-branding resources.

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