This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
At UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), Our Purpose Is People. Built from a merger that created one of the largest cloud companies in the world, UKG believes organizations succeed when they focus on their people.
We are in business for people. We believe that people-centric organizations do great things when their people can do great work. We transform work to be more meaningful and inspiring through software that’s self-driving, adaptive and intuitive; intelligently automating administrative tasks and providing easy access to the answers people need. Our cloud-based enterprise software - ERP, HCM, FP&A - all arise from a simple premise: Give your people the means to focus on what matters, and the people they serve will benefit.
WalkMe pioneered the Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) to simplify user experiences by combining insights, engagement, guidance and automation capabilities. Founded in 2011, WalkMe’s mission is to make digital adoption for employees and customers simple, while increasing enterprise productivity. Our platform works as an invisible layer of visual cues and personalized content placed on top of your website or enterprise software.
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company. We harness the power of cognitive computing, hyper-automation, robotics, cloud, analytics and emerging technologies to help our clients adapt to the digital world and make them successful. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, strong commitment to sustainability and good corporate citizenship, we have over 170,000 dedicated employees serving clients across six continents.
Workato makes the creation and implementation of automations 10X faster than traditional platforms. As the leader in AI-powered enterprise automation, we enable enterprises to automate their business processes across the organization by integrating their applications, data, and experiences.
Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service online. Today, Zendesk is the champion of great service everywhere for everyone, and powers billions of conversations, connecting more than 100,000 brands with hundreds of millions of customers over telephony, chat, email, messaging, social channels, communities, review sites and help centers. Zendesk products are built with love to be loved.
Zoho offers beautifully smart software to help you grow your business. With over 60 million users worldwide, Zoho's 45+ products aid your sales and marketing, support and collaboration, finance and recruitment needs—letting you focus only on your business. Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products. Zoho Corporation is a privately-held and profitable company headquartered in Austin, Texas with international headquarters in Chennai, India, with offices across the globe.
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a global provider of cloud enterprise unified communications and collaboration solutions. More flexible and cost-effective than legacy on-premise systems, RingCentral empowers today’s mobile and distributed workforces to be connected anywhere and on any device through voice, video, team messaging, collaboration, SMS, conferencing, online meetings, contact center, and fax. RingCentral provides an open platform that integrates with today’s leading business apps while giving customers the flexibility to customize their own workflows.
Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm. We help our clients use mobile, web and frontier technologies to transform their businesses and create what's next. In 2009, we created Robots & Pencils with the then-contrarian view that mobile would be more transformative than the Internet. Today, our thinking is rooted in the belief that, in the age of unprecedented technology acceleration, maintaining a competitive advantage requires new strategies and a focus on innovation.
Sage Intacct is the innovation and customer satisfaction leader in cloud Financial Management. AICPA-endorsed and best-in-class, the GAAP-compliant system is used by organizations from startups to public companies and scales as they grow. Companies can consolidate hundreds of entities in minutes. With Sage Intacct's multi-dimensional analysis capabilities, organizations gain deep operational and financial insight.
SAP Customer Experience empowers businesses to put customers first. SAP Customer Experience solutions brings together consent-driven customer data management, machine learning and microservices to power real-time, intelligent customer engagements across sales, customer service, marketing, and commerce.
Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) is a leading cloud-based platform for organizational achievement, enabling teams and organizations to plan, capture, manage, automate, and report on work at scale, resulting in more effective processes and better business outcomes. An extensible platform backed by enterprise-grade security, Smartsheet is used by more than 75% of the companies in the Fortune 500 to implement, manage, and automate processes across a broad array of use cases. Visit www.smartsheet.com to learn more.
Quietly humorous and charismatic, with a slight smile and twinkle in his eye, Steve got his first taste of the world's second-most-consumed beverage as a kid at his grandmother's house in Portland, Oregon. After high school and Vietnam, he got into natural foods and co-founded Stash, the world's first specialty tea company. From Stash, he became the wizard of Tazo — "the reincarnation of tea" — and made more waves with a mind-blowing mix of Merlin the Magician meets Marco Polo. After selling the company to Starbucks, Steve found himself in the mood for retirement.
Ten Ren’s Tea: #1 Tea Retailer & Manufacturer Worldwide With over 2,000+ Stores and counting, Ten Ren’s Tea is the most Loved and Trusted tea shop on the market. Ten Ren Tea Co. Ltd. is dedicated to the fine art of enjoying Chinese tea and the distribution of the finest teas available worldwide. Founded in Taiwan in 1953, Ten Ren Tea has quickly expanded to more than 100 retail stores worldwide and more than 20 stores in North America to provide convenient access to its fine teas and ginseng.
We’re a leading global technology consultancy that delivers extraordinary impact by blending design, engineering and AI expertise. For over three decades, we've led in technology innovation, and today we’re at the forefront of AI-powered software and data engineering. Thoughtworks was founded in Chicago in 1993. A lot has changed since then, but our unwavering commitment to engineering excellence has seen us grow to become leaders in the AI-first software delivery and data engineering space.