The Employee Growth Standard
Don't just choose where you'll work.
Choose who you'll become.
Best Place to Grow is the independent Employee Growth Standard that measures whether organizations genuinely help people learn, progress and become stronger for what comes next.
- 8
- pillars
- 73
- indicators
- 4
- sources of truth
- 1
- Grow Score™
What we measure
Not whether people like working somewhere. Whether it makes them stronger.
Engagement helps describe how people experience work. Growth asks what work enables them to become: skills acquired, responsibility earned, mobility achieved, employability gained. Every organization is assessed against 73 indicators grouped into eight pillars.
Grow people, not just performance.
The eight pillars
- 15%Learning & SkillsDo people acquire real, verifiable skills here?
- 15%Feedback & DevelopmentDo people receive feedback that actually changes their trajectory?
- 15%Career & MobilityCan people move, progress and change direction inside the organization?
- 15%Growth Leadership™Do managers create growth, or absorb it?
- 10%Autonomy & ResponsibilityAre people trusted with more over time?
- 10%Opportunity & ExposureDo people get access to the situations that make them stronger?
- 10%Inclusive GrowthDoes everyone grow, or only a shortlist?
- 10%Employability & FutureWould leaving tomorrow leave people stronger?
Four sources of truth
One score, four independent sources. No self-declaration.
40%
Employee Experience
Perception
Anonymous employee survey run by BPTG, never administered or filtered by the organization.
30%
Evidence
Proof
Documented policies, systems and artefacts verified criterion by criterion in the Evidence Room™.
20%
Outcomes
Results
Hard organizational data: internal mobility, internal hiring, promotion, reskilling, skill application.
10%
Alumni
Perspective
People who already left. The only source that can tell whether the growth held its value afterwards.
Perception + Proof + Results + Perspective
The Grow Question™
Are you professionally stronger today than when you joined this organization?
Why?
One closed question, one open question, asked anonymously to every employee in scope. It is the Standard's central outcome question - and the one no employer can answer on their people's behalf.
No one should give years of their life to a workplace without growing from them.
Explore illustrative profiles
What a verified place to grow looks like
ACME
Technology · Paris, France
People arrive as specialists and leave as operators who can run things.
HORIZON HEALTH
Healthcare · Lyon, France
Clinical and non-clinical populations progress at the same rate. That is rare.
NOVA INDUSTRIES
Industrial Manufacturing · Stuttgart, Germany
Reskilling at industrial scale: 1,100 operators moved into new technical roles.
ATLAS RETAIL
Retail · Madrid, Spain
Store-floor careers that actually lead somewhere; alumni evidence still too thin.
STRATEX CONSULTING
Professional Services · London, United Kingdom
High exposure, high employability - and a growth model that runs on people's reserves.
GREENWORKS
Renewable Energy · Rotterdam, Netherlands
Assessment in progress. No score is published before a decision is issued.
Case in point
A score above 70 is not a certification.
STRATEX Consulting scored 72 overall - above the threshold - and was still refused. 4 hard gates failed. A good average must never compensate for the failure of a hard gate.
A strong employer brand cannot compensate for a weak growth environment.
Open the STRATEX caseSTRATEX CONSULTING
Not Certified
GROW SCORE™
Growth Leadership™
49
Below the 55 hard gate.
Inclusive Growth
52
Below the 55 hard gate.
Sustainable Growth
46
Below the 55 hard gate.
Employability & Future
86
Opportunity & Exposure
82
Independence
You cannot buy the label.
Organizations pay to be assessed. They never pay to be certified.
Same price whatever the outcome
The assessment fee is fixed before the first data point is collected. A refusal costs exactly what a certification costs.
Commercial team ≠ auditors
No one who sold the assessment can review evidence, score a pillar or vote on a decision.
Advisory ≠ certification
Advisory work is separated organizationally and contractually. An adviser cannot audit their own client.
Evidence is verified, not declared
Every one of the 73 indicators is traced to a document, a system export or a measured outcome.
Certification can be refused, suspended, withdrawn
It has happened, it will happen again, and the transparency report publishes the numbers.
Rankings cannot be purchased
No sponsored placement, no paid position in a Grow Index™, no negotiated score.
Rankings cannot be purchased. No sponsored placement, no paid position in a Grow Index™, no negotiated score.
For people
A CV tells what you did. A Growth Passport shows how you grew.
Eight growth dimensions, a verified timeline, and no global human score. Your growth belongs to you.
For organizations
Measure - understand how your people grow. Certify - prove that they do.
A 14-stage certification cycle, an Evidence Room™, and a Growth Report™ your executive committee can act on.
1,000,000
people growing inside verified growth environments
Our ambition - the counter starts with the first real certification
Make work a place to grow.
Every certification, every refusal and every published transparency figure exists for one reason: to make growth an expectation rather than a privilege.