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Incidents of workplace bias aren't hard to come by. 

Every year, thousands of workers file complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – the agency created to eradicate discrimination on the job and investigate workers’ grievances. And high-profile cases abound of employees filing lawsuits against companies citing unfair and unequal treatment. 

As minorities, allies and bottom-line focused execs work to diversify organizations that have failed to welcome and support all workers, it's important to spotlight the companies that seem to be getting it right. 

That's according to the compensation, culture and career monitoring website Comparably, which released a list of the top-ranked CEOs for diversity on Tuesday based on ratings from a pool of ethnically diverse employees.

"I think anytime you have a leadership team that’s diverse itself, whether ethnicity or sexual orientation, that trickles down," said Comparably's CEO Jason Nazar, who added that the many of the CEOs on the list "make a very public commitment to diversity and inclusion, making sure that those are fairly represented across the company."

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Who came out on top? 

Sasan Goodarzi of the financial software company Intuit, Daniel Dines of the automation vendor UiPath and Carlos Rodriguez of the online payroll company ADP were ranked highest, representing companies with at least 500 employees.

T-Mobile's CEO John Legere and Google's Sundar Pichai rounded out the top five.

For companies with fewer than 500 employees, Giuseppi Incitti, CEO of the asset management startup Sitetracker topped the list, followed by the heads of Phenom People and SmartProcure/GovSpend.

Phenom People provides a marketing platform for companies looking to recruit and SmartProcure/GovSpend are technology companies that aggregate and provide data from government agencies. 

The winners "have very clear visions as leaders. They are empathetic and take in the feedback of their teams. They set very clear goals, and they are hitting and exceeding those goals," Nazar said.

"People want to be part of the teams that are enjoying that success."

Best CEOs for diversity, 50 large companies: 

Ranked highest to lowest

1. Sasan Goodarzi, Intuit (Mountain View, California)

2. Daniel Dines, UiPath (New York)

3. Carlos Rodriguez, ADP (Roseland, New Jersey)

4. John Legere, T-Mobile (Bellevue, Washington)

5. Sundar Pichai, Google (Mountain View, California)

6. Brian Halligan, HubSpot (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

7. Frederick Smith, FedEx (Memphis, Tennessee)

8. Bert Bean, Insight Global (Atlanta)

9. Craig Menear, The Home Depot (Atlanta)

10. W. Craig Jelinek, Costco (Issaquah, Washington)

11. Marc Benioff/Keith Block, Salesforce (San Francisco)

12. Doug Mack, Fanatics (Jacksonville, Florida)

13. Mark Mader, Smartsheet (Bellevue, Washington)

14. Andreas Fibig, International Flavors & Fragrances (New York)

15. Satya Nadella, Microsoft (Redmond, Washington)

16. Richard Fairbank, Capital One (McLean, Virginia)

17. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook (Menlo Park, California)

18. Tim Cook, Apple (Cupertino, California)

19. Steven Berglund, Trimble (Sunnyvale, California)

20. John Van Siclen, Dynatrace (Waltham, Massachusetts)

21. David Katzman, SmileDirectClub (Nashville, Tennessee)

22. Brian Moynihan, Bank of America (Charlotte, North Carolina)

23. Robert Quattrocchi, Northside Hospital (Atlanta)

24. Rob Bernshteyn, Coupa Software (San Francisco)

25. Julie Sweet, Accenture (US) (New York)

26. Chris Caldwell, Concentrix (Freemont, California)

27. Cathy Englebert, Deloitte (US) (New York)

28. Jim M. Loree, Stanley Black & Decker (New Britain, Connecticut)

29. Jeff Bezos, Amazon (Seattle)

30. Kevin Johnson, Starbucks (Seattle)

31. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co (New York)

32. Ed Bastian, Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)

33. Lynn Jurich, Sunrun (San Francisco)

34. Brian Roberts, Comcast (Philadelphia)

35. Michael Dell, Dell (Round Rock, Texas)

36. Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, California)

37. Chuck Robbins, Cisco (San Jose, California)

38. Steve Hare, Sage (Atlanta)

39. Arne Sorenson, Marriott (Bethesda, Maryland)

40. Bernard Tyson, Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, California)

41. Niraj Shah, Wayfair (Boston)

42. Bruce Cerullo, Nordic Consulting Partners (Madison, Wisconsin)

43. Akio Toyoda, Toyota (Plano, Texas)

44. Gary Kelly, Southwest Airlines (Dallas)

45. Michel Combes, Sprint (Overland Park, Kansas)

46. Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber (San Francisco)

47. Ramon Laguarta, PepsiCo (Purchase, New York)

48. Erik Nordstrom/Peter Nordstrom, Nordstrom (Seattle)

49. Hisayuki Idekoba, (Austin, Texas)

50. Bill Roberts, Geico (Chevy Chase, Maryland)

Best CEOs for diversity, 50 small/mid-size companies:

Ranked highest to lowest

1. Giuseppi Incitti, Sitetracker (Palo Alto, California)

2. Mahe Bayireddi, Phenom People (Ambler, Pennsylvania)

3. Jeffrey Rubenstein, SmartProcure/GovSpend (Deerfield Beach, Florida)

4. Ariel Cohen, TripActions (Palo Alto, California)

5. Shafat Qazi, BQE Software (Torrance, California)

6. Robert Wahbe, Highspot (Seattle)

7. David Cancel, Drift (Boston)

8. Anant Kale, AppZen (San Jose, California)

9. Oleg Rogynskyy, (San Francisco)

10. Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (San Francisco)

11. Steve Carlson, ForwardLine Financial (Woodland Hills, California)

12. Brew Johnson, PeerStreet (Manhattan Beach, California)

13. Karl Mehta, EdCast (Mountain View, California)

14. Renaud Laplanche, Upgrade (San Francisco)

15. Francis Davidson, Sonder (San Francisco)

16. Rami Sass, WhiteSource (New York)

17. Alexander Austin, Branch (Redwood City, California)

18. John Beatty, Clover Network (Sunnyvale, California)

19. Andrew Peterson, Signal Sciences (Culver City, California)

20. Sean Kelly, SnackNation (Culver City, California)

21. Chris Bennett, Wonderschool (San Francisco)

22. Steve Elliott, AgileCraft (Austin, Texas)

23. Howard Brown, RingDNA (Sherman Oaks, California)

24. Sarah Nahm, Lever (San Francisco)

25. Vineet Jain, Egnyte (Mountain View, California)

26. Jason Brown, Tally Technologies (San Francisco)

27. Sujata Varma, Diverse Lynx (Princeton, New Jersey)

28. Daniel Chait, Greenhouse Software (New York)

29. Amit Jnagal, Infrrd (San Jose, California)

30. Dustin Moskovitz, Asana (San Francisco)

31. Ed Sattar, QuickStart (Austin, Texas)

32. Charles Ramsey, Sauce Labs (San Francisco)

33. Cedric Bru, Taulia (San Francisco)

34. Timo Rein, Pipedrive (New York)

35. Iyad Tarazi, Federated Wireless (Arlington, VA)

36. Tim Chen, NerdWallet (San Francisco)

37. Amir Reiter, CloudTask (Miami Beach, Florida)

38. Kylie Wright-Ford, Reputation Institute (Boston)

39. Brady Brim-DeForest, Theorem (Encino, California)

40. Gleb Polyakov, Nylas (San Francisco)

41. Chris Hulls, Life360 (San Francisco)

42. Greg Besner, CultureIQ (New York)

43. Kerem Baran, Boomset (New York)

44. David Baszucki, ROBLOX (San Mateo, California)

45. Simon Anderson, Mission (El Segundo, California)

46. Adam Traidman, BRD (San Francisco)

47. Larry Gadea, Envoy (San Francisco)

48. Stefan Batory, Booksy (San Francisco)

49. Peter Swaniker, Ximble (Carlsbad, California)

50. Christian Gormsen, Eargo (San Jose, California)


Comparably Awards are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their CEOs on between June 7, 2018, and June 7, 2019. There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required. The answer to each question was given a numerical score and then compared to companies of similar size across the U.S. Additional weight was given to scores at companies with more participation from their employee base.

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