Build It

Acknowledgments

Thanks first, obviously, to all the amazing HR, leadership rebels, CEOs and entrepreneurs whom we interviewed and featured in this book and the website—you were and are an inspiration, and we're so grateful you took the time to share your stories.

We are hugely grateful to all of the 359 staff at Reward Gateway who helped and contributed in many ways, but especially to our subject matter experts Rowenna Berry and Kylie Terrell on Recognition; Lucy Tallick on Wellbeing; Zach Wilkinson and Didi Kirova on Learning; and Kylie Green and James Edwards on all things Pay & Benefits, Recognition and Australia. Shelley Packer was an inspiration on Leadership, while Catrin Lewis and Charlie Taylor kept us honest with Communications and focused on Purpose, Mission & Values. Cover design, branding and all illustrations are all thanks to the hugely talented Sevi Rahimova and Leonie Williamson. For the book's website, we owe thanks to Rade Georgiev. Rob Hicks and Jonathan Burg supported us throughout. Thanks to Owen Davies and Samantha Marrazzo, who “owned it” on our Glassdoor analysis. Thanks to all of our external reviewers who saw the book in an awful, messy state, especially to Jane Vivier.

Special thanks to our editor at Reward Gateway, Chloe DeIulis, who worked with us for many months, and to Ruth E. Thaler‐Carter, our copyeditor in New York, who worked to awful deadlines—both did their very best to correct as much of our terrible punctuation and grammar as was humanly ...