Our Partners
Our partnerships let us bring forward the best thinking and strongest solutions to solve your problems. We’ve developed relationships to ensure you have access to current research to drive your decision-making and program design. Then our technical partners ensure seamless integrations to drive enhanced results.
Industry Partnerships
Through a variety of partnerships and integrations with best-in-class products, our customers can simplify their access to BI WORLDWIDE solutions, seamlessly transfer participant and program data between multiple systems, and gain better insight into program performance.
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IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider, helping clients capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, cloud solutions, and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service.
ProHabits
ProHabits uses short, bite-sized nudges to help your people practice key behaviors in a safe, non-disruptive way. ProHabits unlocks the potential of its users (and their organizations) by distilling complex concepts into short nudges that reinforce a “learn by doing” approach. You don’t learn to ride a bike by reading a guide or attending a seminar – you get on and you start pedaling. ProHabits takes the same approach, prompting action through nudges.
Quantum Workplace
Quantum Workplace helps organizations make work better every day by creating a culture of employee success. Our employee success platform empowers organizations to understand employee experience, inspire employee impact, and create a magnetic culture that attracts and retains top talent. Solutions include employee surveys, 1-on-1s, goals, recognition, feedback, talent reviews, succession planning, and the nationally renowned Best Places to Work contest.
Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics are built with artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core to help organizations around the world embrace the future of work.
Academic Partners
We’ve partnered with expert academics to ensure our customers’ sales incentive, loyalty and employee engagement programs utilize psychology, research, and the scientifically proven principles of behavioral economics.
Brad Shuck, Ph.D.
Professor and Program Director, Human Resources and Organizational Development Program, University of Louisville; Co-Founder, OrgVitals; Owner, LEAD Research, LLC
Dr. Brad Shuck is an internationally recognized business thought leader, entrepreneur, and academic in the areas of employee engagement, leadership development, and organizational culture. He is the author of Employee Engagement: A Research Overview (Routledge, 2020) and has published or presented more than 350 scholarly articles, book chapters, and invited presentations. Shuck holds five US Copyrights for his research-driven, intellectual property on employee engagement and culture management. His work has been featured in US-based international media outlets including Forbes, The Washington Post, and TIME, as well as international outlets such as Business World Online, India’s Economic Times, and the Hindu Times. He has given Keynote addresses on four of the seven continents including these countries: China, Spain, India, Panama, the United Kingdom and across the United States for some of the world’s largest and most admired companies. Shuck is a tenured Full Professor and Co-Founder of OrgVitals, a purpose-built culture management software company. He is a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels and holds advanced degrees in Counseling, Student Affairs, Human Resource Development, and Adult Education.
Mike Ahearne, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing and C.T. Bauer Chair in Marketing, University of Houston
In addition to Mike’s roles at the University of Houston, he is also the Research Director of the Sales Excellence Institute. Mike’s research has primarily focused on improving the performance of salespeople and sales organizations. He has published over 40 articles in leading journals and was recently recognized by the American Marketing Association as one of the ten most productive research scholars in the field of marketing. His research has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, Business Investors Daily, Fox News, INC Magazine and many other news outlets.
George John, Ph.D.
General Mills/Paul S. Gerot Chair, Professor of Marketing, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
Professor John received his bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1974 and his MBA from the University of Illinois in 1976. After earning his Ph.D in Marketing from Northwestern in 1981, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1987, he moved to the University of Minnesota. He is the General Mills/Paul S. Gerot Chair in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His interests center around distribution channels and high tech marketing. Specifically, he is interested in the strategic and efficiency aspects of governance choices in these settings.
His academic honors include an American Marketing Association award for his Ph.D dissertation in 1981, and his selection in 2003 as a “Highly Cited Researcher” in the Business/Economics category by Thomson Reuters Web of Science.