We often hear about bad bosses, but we think it’s important to talk about the good ones because we hope that by giving folks examples of how to be a good boss we can inspire future bosses to be better, to do better for their employees and all stakeholders.

Adrine Avetyan

Jane Maki. To know her is to love her. Jane was my clinical supervisor during my first experience at a community mental health clinic, a pivotal time in my journey toward becoming a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I was a nervous, wide-eyed clinician, still in school and eager to secure my first traineeship to begin accumulating hours. That’s when I walked into Verdugo Mental Health for an interview, where I met Jane. Read more>>

Matthew Martinez

Yes, I’ve been inspired to succeed in my job by my store manager, Craig Seiter. I always get to be the most creative in my work at Dillard’s because of him. Whether it’s producing content for our store’s Instagram page or creating an inviting display. I was not encouraged to be creative at one point, but he rekindled that spark when he promoted me to my current role. For my job at Dillard’s, I am eternally grateful to him. Read more>>

Kim Droege

During my career at IBM, I worked for an incredible man who I probably would have crawled through fire for, if he had asked. When I first went to work for him, we had a meeting in which he informed me he had fully reviewed my personnel file and was immediately giving me a raise since I was being underpaid relative to my performance and accomplishments compared to the men I was working beside. Obviously, we were off to a good start. He then proceeded to tell me the only time he wanted to see me in his office was when I really needed help or bad news had to be delivered to my customer since it was important they liked me and not him. Read more>>