Our Purpose
We believe there is a different, more holistic purpose for business and organizations than the standard corporate model of success or entrepreneurial dream of making a lot of money and sprinkling some moral or sacred principles on top.
This purpose is significantly more integrated, fulfilling, meaningful, beautiful, and impactful, and is summarized by:
Valuing people in a way that allows them to flourish and experience shalom
Building up organizations that thrive and are economically regenerative
Enabling communities to prosper
Making the world a better place
We call organizations with these purposes, and where we experience this way of life and work, a Good Place organization.
Our Team
Chris Young
The Good Place Institute
President & Senior Consultant
Good Place Holdings
Chief of Staff
Chris is the President of The Good Place Institute (a Good Place Holdings company), Chief of Staff at Good Place Holdings, and co-author of the book, The Good Place Organization: A Leaders Guide to Stewarding Good Place Organizations. Chris has spent over twenty years researching and developing Biblically-based approaches, methods, and resources while leading and helping others build and steward for-profit and non-profit organizations to bring about organizational life and achieve organizational success from a Biblical worldview.
Mike Hujar
The Good Place Institute
Client & Community Support
Mike has a servant leadership heart and philosophy to serve and support GPI clients, the GPI community of Partners and Consultants, and the organization. Mike has over thirty-plus years working in various sales, marketing, development, and both project and event management roles in various industries and markets, most recently as Entrepreneurial Architect for Good Place Holdings. He possesses strong communication and organization which helps establish and build strong and lasting relationships through being responsive to needs.
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Garry Miles
The Good Place Institute
Business & Community Development
Garry serves as GPI Business & Community Development. One of the primary purposes of his role is to provide clients, the organizational community, and the marketplace with awareness of, interest in, and engagement with The Good Place Institute, including our products, services, and solutions to help build up and multiply Good Place organizations.
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Dale Bissonette
The Good Place Institute
Executive Advisor & Senior Consultant
Good Place Holdings
Chief Executive Officer
Dale is the President of Good Place Holdings and the CEO of SD Myers, Inc. (a Good Place Holdings company). Dale has been leading local, national, and international organizations in the for-profit and non-profit sectors based on biblical principles and values for over thirty years in such roles as Owner, CEO, President, Board Chair and Member, and CFO. Dale holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from The University of Akron.
Josh Mitchell
The Good Place Institute
Consultant
Good Place Holdings
Chief Marketing Officer
Josh currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer for Good Place Holdings. With more than 23 years of expertise in digital marketing solutions for growth-oriented companies of all sizes. Josh has a deep experience in eCommerce website design and digital strategy. Josh is warmly enthusiastic and imaginative, and sees life as full of possibilities. A natural people-person, Josh strives to help others achieve their dreams by sharing his own excitement for risk-taking and adventure. His flexible, supportive attitude enables him to draw connections between distinct events and information, and he proceeds based on patterns he quickly identifies. Josh’s passion to dream, develop and create shape his approach to both his life and his work: he strives for perfection, but is adaptable to changing circumstances.
Mark O’Brien
The Good Place Institute
Consultant
Good Place Holdings
Business Manager
Mark currently serves as the Business Manager at On Now Digital and oversees all areas of Innovation for Good Place Holdings. He has spent over a decade bringing to life new products as both determined entrepreneur and seasoned intrapreneur. He is passionate about helping organizations evaluate and iterate on new ideas to determine proper product-market-fit and business-model construction to serve customers and communities. Through his use of design thinking, the managing innovation system, and the mission model canvas, Mark aims at building delightful customer experiences that engage and equip the marketplace.
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Scott Myers
The Good Place Institute
Author of Good Place Philosophy & Principles
Good Place Holdings
Chief Governance Officer
Scott is the Chair of the Board of Good Place Holdings and author of the philosophy and principles of Good Place through his writings in The Eutopia Book series (Good Place Publishing, 2017) and the Art of Life in Organizations: Finding Value (Good Place Publishing, 2005). Scott has spent over three decades researching and building up organizations locally, nationally, and internationally, in the for-profit and non-profit sectors based on what the God of the Bible says about good places, work, life in organizations to build up hearts of love, lives of shalom, making the world a better place. Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from Houghton College.
Certified Partner Consultants
Certified Partner Consultants are certified to market The Good Place Institute, building up the Good Place community, as well as sell and deliver those Good Place Institute services they are certified in.
Certified Community Partners
Certified Community Partners are certified to market The Good Place Institute, building up the Good Place community.
Good Place Holdings
The Good Place Institute is a Good Place Holdings organization—encouraging and celebrating principles and values that have withstood the test of time. Good Place organizations aim to value people over surplus, build up Good Places in the community, and be economically regenerative. Learn more about Good Place Holdings and their portfolio of Good Place Organizations by visiting goodplaceholdings.com.
