"GoodWork is more than a project. It can change our world."
— Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute

“Your GoodWork Project will continue to evolve and influence in ways
that cannot fully be anticipated—nor directly measured.”
— Thomas J. Tierney, Chairman and Founder, The Bridgespan Group

The GoodWork® Project is a large scale effort to identify individuals and institutions that
exemplify good work—work that is excellent in quality, socially responsible, and meaningful
to its practitioners—and to determine how best to increase the incidence of good work
in our society. Read more...

- Browse a timeline of our work
- Learn about our new Developing Minds and Digital Media Project
- Read about our GoodPlay Project
- Download The GoodWork Project Overview
- Learn about The GoodWork Toolkit

- Daedalus special issue: On Professions and Professionals - Read: Howard Gardner Does Good Work, Strategy+Business
- New Book: Good Mentoring: Fostering Excellent Practice in Higher Education Good Mentoring offers an in-depth analysis of the way mentors transmit not only knowledge and skills but the guiding values that support good work and social responsibility. The book clearly shows how these values are passed along to those they guide. Profiling three lineages of scientists passing their professional skills, values, and practices down through generations, the book reveals what constitutes successful mentoring in science and beyond. Stemming from a first-of-its-kind study by the GoodWork Project, the book shows how the cultivation of professional ethics and excellence depends on teachers and mentors and the learning environments they foster. Preorder this publication from Amazon.
- New Book: Responsibility at Work In Responsibility at Work, recently released by Jossey-Bass, Howard Gardner and his colleagues provide an up to date, comprehensive summary of major findings from their decade-long GoodWork Project.