Standing Partnership Named a Top 50 Inspiring Workplace in North America

The Inspiring Workplaces Group announced its Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces list in North America at an awards ceremony in Chicago. Standing Partnership, a marketing consultancy based in St. Louis, MO, ranked 27th among the top 50 finalists and fifth among small businesses.

The Inspiring Workplaces Awards 2023 asked each organization to submit its entry around six key elements fundamental to creating an Inspiring Workplace:

• Culture and Purpose
• Leadership
• Well Being
• Inclusion & Diversity
• Communication
• Employee Experience

Founded in 1991, Standing Partnership is a certified women-owned B2B marketing consultancy serving clients in complex, highly regulated industries including technology, manufacturing, agriculture and professional services. The company owes its success to its culture as well as a scalable and sustainable growth strategy that has yielded more than 20% year-after-year growth since 2020. Standing’s culture can be characterized as a fast-paced environment where ambitious people thrive thanks to genuine collaboration, support, and recognition that enables their continued growth.

“We’re proud and humbled to be in the company of these amazing organizations,” said Melissa Lackey, President and CEO, Standing Partnership. “It’s exciting to be recognized for creating a culture and environment that team members not only opt into but want to stay and grow their careers. Our employee retention track record (many are 10 plus years) and “boomerang” employees who chose to come back to Standing after working elsewhere speak for themselves. These are the most impactful proof points.”

The Top 50 was decided by an independent expert judging panel. Matt Manners, Founder, The Inspiring Workplaces Group commented, “Congratulations to The Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces throughout North America. The calibre of submissions this year has seen the bar raised considerably. The strongest that we have ever seen. This shows that business leaders really are putting their people first and reaping the rewards this deserves. It also shows that positive, meaningful change is being delivered throughout the world of work.”

VP Nick Sargent, Partner & CEO Melissa Lackey and Partner & COO Julie Steininger accept Standing Partnership’s Top 50 Inspiring Workplace Award on June 7, 2023 in Chicago.

The North America Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces*:

1. Calix
2. Reward Getaway
3. Union Pacific
4. Jackson Healthcare
5. IGS Energy
6. Paystone
7. Federal Reserve Bank of NY
8. Sentinel Technologies
9. CooperCompanies
10. Rackspace Technology
11. Navvis
12. Anheuser-Busch
13. Experian
14. Tata Consultancy Services
15. Fusion Homes
16. TheMathCompany
17. Applauz Inc
18. ISAAC Instruments
19. Lexum
20. Maple (getmaple.ca) AND Clairity, Inc.
21. Verizon
22. Acceleration Partners
23. Breaktime Media
24. Arity
25. ORTEC Int. USA, Inc. AND Ocean State Job Lot
26. iQmetrix Software Development Corp AND Avail Car Sharing
27. Standing Partnership
28. Skai
29. Kroger
30. ActBlue
31. Too Good To Go Canada
32. Thomas Thor US LLC
33. Moniker Partners
34. Royal Ambulance
35. Hotspex
36. US Patent Trademark Office
37. Plum AND O’Reilly Media
38. Milk and Honey PR
39. Zoox
40. PagerDuty
41. We Are Rosie
42. Stanton House Inc.
43. Vital Farms
44. AMMD, LLC AND Valor
45. 2U, Inc.
46. CAI
47. Workhuman
48. Uberflip
49. Concentrix AND AllSaints
50. World Finance AND Ledcor Group of Companies

*joint rankings occur where judges assigned companies the same scores

Small Business (0 – 49 employees):
Applauz Inc
Lexum
Clairity, Inc,
Breaktime Media
Standing Partnership