Robert Levering
Best known as co-author of FORTUNE's annual 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Robert Levering has been fascinated with the phenomenon of great workplaces for more than 20 years. Along with co-author Milton Moskowitz, Robert wrote the best-selling first book on this subject in 1984, The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America. Four years later, Robert published A Great Place to Work: What makes some employers so good - and most so bad, an in-depth study of great workplaces. He has written or coauthored six other books and dozens of articles in many international publications including the Financial Times.
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In 1990 Robert founded (with Amy Lyman) the Great Place to Work® Institute.
Besides the Fortune list, Robert and the Institute's affiliates work with a prominent newspaper or magazine in 25 other countries to produce national Best Companies to Work for lists. More than 2,500 companies in North and South America, Europe and Asia take part in these annual surveys, using the Institute's proprietary tools and methodology.
Robert is a featured speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity. He has been featured in Newsweek, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, Industry Week and many other international publications, and has appeared on dozens of TV and radio shows, including Oprah, CNN, and CBS Morning News. In 1992, he hosted and wrote a nationally syndicated television series called The New Workplace.
A graduate of Swarthmore College and the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social Change, Robert has two sons and lives in San Francisco where he is also an active member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). |
