Most Admired Companies of 2023: Achieve

50 companies have risen from the constantly evolving and ever-challenging business environment to earn the right to call themselves Arizona’s Most Admired Companies of 2023, including Achieve.

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“Most Admired Companies is the most comprehensive and prestigious annual corporate awards program in Arizona,” says Amy Lindsey, publisher of AZ Big Media, which publishes Az Business magazine and co-founded the Most Admired Companies program with the team from BestCompaniesAZ. “To be called a Most Admired Company, a business must demonstrate excellence in its leadership; corporate culture; innovation; customer relations; community engagement; and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and programs.”

Arizona’s Most Admired Companies will be recognized at a celebration dinner on Thursday, October 5, 2023 at Chateau Luxe in Phoenix. For sponsorship information, email Amy.Lindsey@azbigmedia.com. For information about the event honoring Arizona’s Most Admired Companies, email Lynette.Carrington@azbigmedia.com or click here. To buy tickets, click here.

Achieve

Top Arizona executive: Linda Luman, executive vice president of human resources

What it does: Digital financial services company

Workplace culture: Achieve has provided more than 172,000 hours of training for their employees, filled upwards of 30% of job positions internally through promotions or lateral development opportunities and employees can earn free college credits thanks to the company’s partnership with Rio Salado Community College. To date, 95% of employees enrolled in the program have earned 996 college credits with an overall value of $1,223,367.

Innovation: Examples of Achieve’s innovation efforts throughout 2022, included assisting more than 550 employees to advance and grow in their careers through transfer and promotional opportunities; delivering 178,000 hours of virtual and on-site training for skill and leadership development across the organization and more.