Thought Leaders

Eric Mosley, Globoforce CEO and Co-founder

As co-founder and CEO of Globoforce, Eric has been directing the path of Globoforce as the innovator in the strategic employee recognition industry since the company’s beginning. His vision to raise employee recognition from a tactical, unmeasured, and under-valued effort to a global strategic program with clear measures for performance and success is now being realized in some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. Eric continues to cast the vision of innovation for the company and the industry.

“As more and more Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies realize how important a strategic employee recognition program is in an overall employee engagement strategy, they’re turning to Globoforce because we are the only company in the world that can offer the type of solution they need to operate on a global scale. We’ve launched programs over the past year for several global corporations and one of our customers in particular will soon engage all of its several hundred thousand employees spread across 90 countries in a culture of appreciation using the Globoforce strategic recognition solution.”

Derek Irvine, Globoforce Vice President of Global Marketing & Client Strategy

As Globoforce’s Vice President of Global Marketing & Client Strategy, Derek is a seasoned, internationally minded management professional with over 20 years of experience working across a diverse range of industries. During his career he has lived in many countries including Spain, France, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, UK and the USA. Derek also heads up the marketing, communications, product development and rewards teams at Globoforce, building a product that is industry leading, with a rewards portfolio that is now the most global and largest rewards selection in the industry today. In his role as a thought leader at Globoforce, Derek helps clients set a higher ambition for global strategic employee recognition, leading consultative workshops and strategy setting meetings with such global organizations as Avnet, P&G, Dow Chemical, Intel, Intuit, KPMG and Reuters. An authority on the topics of employee engagement and recognition, he has been a guest speaker at worldwide industry and professional group conferences.

“Working consultatively with our clients over the last decade, we have gained more experience offering global strategic recognition solutions than any other player in this industry. Every step we’ve taken since our inception, we’ve done hand-in-hand with the world’s most complex and dispersed companies – all because they could not achieve the global strategic recognition program results they needed through any other provider.”

Read Derek’s blog on employee engagement, appreciation cultures, and strategic recognition.