Most Admired Companies of 2024: Northern Trust

Fifty-five 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 2024, including Northern Trust.

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Arizona’s Most Admired Companies will be honored at a celebratory dinner on Oct. 3 at Chateau Luxe in Phoenix. To learn more of to get tickets, click here. For sponsorship information, email Amy Lindsey, publisher of AZ Big Media, at amy.lindsey@azbigmedia.com.

Northern Trust

Top Arizona executive: Mike O’Grady

What it does: Financial services.

Community impact: Each October, Northern Trust offices participate in Achieving Greater Together, a collaborative effort to give back to the communities in which its employees work. Northern Trust’s Tempe site logged 945 hours in October, which included participation from 33% of the site.

Innovative trait: The Tempe site has made great strides in innovation over the past year. The biggest contribution has been the formation of the Tempe Tech Innovators. This group of employees has set out to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness through innovative process improvements. This has mainly taken place through automation (low code as well as no code), digital transformation and identifying new opportunities for improvement.