What services does BPI offer?

BPI provides leadership development programs, social learning platforms, in-person clinics, discussion groups, and HR analytics tools like the patented Anytime 360-degree feedback platform, Skillrater.

Who founded the Best Practice Institute?

BPI was founded by CEO Louis Carter, a social-organizational psychologist who has authored or co-authored 11 books on leadership, organizational change, and management.

What are BPI's areas of expertise?

BPI focuses on leadership development, organization change and learning, performance management, human resources development, HR analytics, and talent management.

What kind of organizations are members of BPI?

BPI members are located across the globe and include executives and employees from more than half of the Fortune 500 companies.

Leadership Development Center & HR Analytics

Q: What is the Best Practice Institute?

The Best Practice Institute (BPI) is a leadership development center, HR analytics provider, and benchmarking organization that combines proprietary technology with social learning and in-person events for its 10,000+ members.

What is the Best Practice Institute?

The Best Practice Institute (BPI) is a research organization, HR Analytics/SAAS provider, and leadership development center. We serve over 10,000 corporate and individual members globally, blending our proprietary, patented HR analytics tools with a comprehensive suite of online social learning and in-person experiences.

Our membership includes executives and employees from more than half of the Fortune 500, spanning approximately two dozen countries across five continents.

Our Approach

We provide a unique benchmarking experience that helps organizations and individuals develop critical skills.

Learn: Develop your company and teams through social and online learning, in-person clinics, and discussion groups. We offer transfer-of-learning evaluations to demonstrate on-the-job application.
Collaborate: Get answers to critical questions from peers and over 350 experts. Our patented, cloud-based Anytime 360-degree feedback tool, Skillrater, allows you to track employee performance on a social collaboration platform.
Pioneer: Validate your work and build your professional reputation. Members can create best-practice case studies, contribute to wikis, and share original ideas through blogs to get noticed by others.

Our Founder

BPI was founded by Louis Carter, a social-organizational psychologist and the author or co-author of 11 books on leadership development, organizational change, and other management topics. Carter currently serves as BPI's CEO.

Core Focus Areas

BPI specializes in several key domains to support organizational excellence:

Leadership Development
Organization Change & Learning
Performance Management
Human Resources Development & Analytics
Talent Management

Since 2011, BPI has been consistently named to Leadership Excellence magazine’s “Best in Leadership Development” ranking.

Best Practice Institute

Best Practice Institute is the research organization behind Most Loved Workplace® certification, the SPARK Model, the Love of Workplace Index™ (LOWI™), 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.

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