How Good Place Holdings is Benefitting Akron | Scott Myers | Good Place Holdings

Businesses Doing Good

Our guest is Scott Myers, CEO and Chairman of Good Place Holdings. Scott has worked since 1982 at the family business, founded in 1965, in roles from entry level lab technician to CEO and Board Chair. He led the formation of Good Place Holdings, a C Corporation with no owners, as a succession strategy to maintain the company’s biblically-derived leadership culture, and as a platform to develop community businesses. Married to Gina Burk with two daughters and one granddaughter, the family enjoys running, cycling, photography and travel.

Good Place Holdings as Agent of Community Benefit
The top level aims of Good Place Holdings’ (GPH), which we call our Charter -
1) to be economically regenerative organization that
2) gives opportunity and encouragement to members of the organization to live up to their full potential, and
3) builds Good Places in the communities where we work
- are accomplished through our leadership culture, embodied in the 10 Areas of Stewarding a Good Place Organization.
To date our involvement in community benefit has mostly been in helping non-profits adopt these three aims and the Areas of stewarding their organizations. While the majority of GPH customers are part of the Fortune 500 economy, we have recently been building a base to support involvement in our local community economy in ways that support the three aims of our Charter.