St. Paul-based Consulting Firm Wins in 7 out of 7 Categories
ddms, inc., an environmental data management consulting firm, has been named a 2026 Top Workplaces Excellence Award winner and a 2026 Culture Excellence Award winner.
“We’re excited to exceed the National Standard for Top Workplaces and rank #59 in the Twin Cities for small businesses,” said Mike Goecke, head of HR at ddms. “We also were recognized for winning seven out of seven of each of the categories for cultural awards.”
Top Workplaces rankings and recognitions are built from a research-backed employee engagement survey administered independently by Energage. Employee responses are scored and benchmarked against a dataset built from more than 30 million employees surveyed across 80,000+ organizations over 20 years. Full details on ddms’ recognition are available on Top Workplaces.
In the Culture Excellence Award categories, ddms, inc. was recognized for Compensation & Benefits Top Workplaces, Innovation Top Workplaces, Top Workplaces for Appreciation, Work-Life Flexibility Top Workplaces, Employee Well-Being Top Workplaces, Professional Development Top Workplaces, Leadership Top Workplaces and Purpose & Values Top Workplaces. The results are based on an employee engagement survey.
“We like to think of it like a chain of custody for environmental data, but for culture: the data has to be traceable straight back to the people living it,” said Mark Packard, ddms, inc., CEO. “This data comes straight from employees sharing what it’s actually like to work here.”
Based in St. Paul, MN, ddms has a national team of nearly 70 environmental data experts who help companies deal with complicated scientific data that need to be expertly interpreted, securely stored, and seamlessly managed. The company has grown steadily since its founding in 2006.
“Earning a Top Workplaces award is a badge of honor for companies, especially because it comes authentically from their employees,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. “That’s something to be proud of. In today’s market, leaders must ensure they’re allowing employees to have a voice and be heard. That’s paramount. Top Workplaces do this, and it pays dividends.”
About ddms
ddms provides world-class environmental data management, analytics, visualization, and enterprise implementation services across a range of industries. Our team, from project managers to scientists, database administrators, geospatial professionals, software engineers, and cartographers, brings deep domain experience to every engagement. We believe clients and their stakeholders deserve timely, live, and intuitive access to the insights held within their environmental data, because that’s how you maximize the return on every dollar invested in sampling, analysis, and reporting. Alongside our own SaaS platform, Project Portal®, we partner with best-in-class software vendors to help clients be data ready and do more with their data.
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