Great Place to Work

Great Place to Work had rigorous research and a trusted certification system. As a new CEO reshaped the company, Rob led a creative language that could make the evidence feel as human as the workplaces behind it.

Year2016–2020
RoleCreative / Design Director
TypeClient
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The evidence needed a human face

Great Place to Work could explain what made a workplace strong, but much of its communication felt like one business speaking to another. The challenge was to keep the rigor while showing why the research mattered to the people living inside those workplaces.

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Build continuity from inside the transition

Rob's team worked as an independent creative partner close to the company's daily needs. That position made a larger decision possible: treat brand, product, reports, marketing, and the website as connected expressions of one idea, rather than a series of unrelated requests.

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Give “For All” a face

The team used real employees, recognizable work settings, direct language, and a more expressive visual system to make the For All belief visible. Reports and certification materials still had to carry evidence; imagery and stories gave that evidence a human scale.

System in motion

The language traveled across distinct uses.

Employee-story campaign image showing people at work.
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Human visual system

Reporting interface showing research and data made usable.
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Research interface

Certification ecosystem illustration showing the system in context.
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Certification ecosystem

For All model diagram showing the structured visual language.
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For All model

Employee-story campaign image showing people at work.
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Human visual system

Reporting interface showing research and data made usable.
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Research interface

Certification ecosystem illustration showing the system in context.
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Certification ecosystem

For All model diagram showing the structured visual language.
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For All model

Brand and product-system frame carrying the research-led message.
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Let the system work wherever people met it

The idea extended through reports, products, marketing, the website, and keynote presentations. The result was a coherent creative system Great Place to Work could use across channels.

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