Lead

Financial Services · Kansas City, MO · 336 employees · Led by Jacqueline Reses, CEO

SPARK benchmark

Validated scores publishing when the 2026 research cycle closes

The Story

Why Lead is Most Loved

Lead Bank is a banking-infrastructure platform that enables fintechs to embed compliant, programmable services (payments, lending, cards, accounts, and digital assets) directly into their products; an API-first, developer-focused partner bank with offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York and an FDIC-insured bank in Kansas City.

Best Practice Institute

Best Practice Institute is the research organization behind Most Loved Workplace® certification, the SPARK Model, the Love of Workplace Index®, and The Workplace Report.

The Workplace Report

The Workplace Report is BPI's original workplace culture research and editorial briefing series for CEOs, CHROs, people leaders, talent leaders, and employer-brand teams. It turns BPI's 25 years of research, Most Loved Workplace® certification data, SPARK findings, and current workforce signals into practical analysis leaders can use.

The report format includes executive summaries, research-backed articles, company examples, methodology notes, and practical implications for retention, hiring, culture, leadership, and employee experience. New research and analysis is published on an ongoing editorial cadence at /workplace-report.