About Us

What We Do

Job Crafting LLC develops and distributes tools to help people thrive at work. Our tools are based on our own academic research. We use data to create, test, and refine our tools to maximize their impact.

We are the exclusive distributor of the Job Crafting™ Exercise (JCE). Our research team developed the JCE in partnership with the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. We continue to partner with the Center for Positive Organizations to help bring the JCE to the world.

Executive Director: Meredith Myers, Ph.D.

In addition to being the Executive Director of Job Crafting LLC, Meredith is an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has taught classes on management, leadership, and positive psychology at work in the Wharton School, Masters of Applied Positive Psychology Program, School of Social Policy & Practice, and Center for Social Impact Strategy. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School’s Center for Leadership and Change Management. Meredith holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.

Meredith has been coaching executives for over a decade and has vast experience running trainings in a variety of settings, including companies big and small, government agencies, non-profit organizations, military special forces, and universities. If you’re interested in having Meredith facilitate a Job Crafting™ Exercise workshop in your organization, please email her for more info: meredith@jobcrafting.com.

 

Research Consultants

Amy Wrzesniewski, Ph.D.

Professor of Management, The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania

Amy’s research examines how employees craft their jobs and relationships with others in the workplace to change both their work identity and the meaning of the job. She also studies how people make meaning of their work in difficult contexts (e.g., stigmatized occupations, virtual work, absence of work), and the experience of work as a job, career, or calling.

Jane E. Dutton, Ph.D.

Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology, Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan

Jane’s research centers on how organizational conditions strengthen capabilities of individuals and firms. In particular, she examines how high quality connections, positive meaning, and emotions contribute to individual and organizational strengths.


Justin M. Berg, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Justin’s research focuses on creativity and innovation. In essence, he studies how to successfully develop, evaluate, and implement creative ideas in and outside organizations.