The document summarizes GoodData's year in 2015, highlighting their focus on customer obsession, programs for feedback and wellness, leadership hires and promotions, creativity through hackathons, continuous development, community giving back events, collaboration across locations, and year-round celebration of successes. Their CEO reflected on staying true to their culture and thanked the GoodData family ("GoodFamily") for an incredible year.

1. ‘Tis is the season to be jolly, and at GoodData, there is holiday cheer everywhere! From Brno to Boston, Portland to
Prague to San Francisco, we are making the season bright… Reflecting on the year our CEO Roman Stanek said “2015
was about staying true to the GoodData DNA and our culture that is defined by the amazing spirit of our teams ” He
also shared his favorite quote from Ben Horowitz’s book The Hard Things about Hard Things “Building a company is
not easy ...While we are far from perfect we are jolly about a few things and wanted to take a moment to thank our
incredible GoodFamily, and look back on what made 2015 a year to remember!”
12 Days of GoodFamily

2. Customer Obsession
Our culture is defined
by our core values, and
this is our top-most
company value. 2015
saw our teams create
amazing business
outcomes as they put
their best forward in
creating value for our
customers!

3. An Open GoodVoices
Program
What works and what can we do better?
The ability to talk about problems— both positives and
negatives—is key, and this goes in all directions both ways
(top-down, bottom-up, and across functions).
We set up our GoodVoices program to ensure Leadership hears
feedback in a candid way. Special thanks to our GoodVoice
Champions who partnered with Leaders + PeopleOps to make
this possible and led to measurable improvements in our talent
metrics and focus on key business outcomes!

4. 3 GoodLife Facts:
Our GoodLife Champions
emphasized benefits of health &
wellness through:
1. Weekly yoga, walking, running,
and cycling activities across all
GoodData offices.
2. Intense competitions and
prizes!!
3. Driving Amazing Participation
- 100% above industry levels!
GoodLife Program Run by
Employee Champions

5. 4 Facts about Women in
Leadership Program in US:
● 57% of female
employees are Directors
● 34% of female
employees are
Managers
● 34% of female
employees are in
technical roles
● 34% of employees are
female
Women in Leadership

6. Company Traditions
Here are 5 company traditions we love:
1. Czech Conference Day where employees share their knowledge
2. Lunch and Learn with Customers
3. Bring your Kids to Work Day
4. Our Prague office celebrates St Nicks Day in December where the
whole family is invited to the workplace!
5. Finally our Sales Rally where our field teams gather every year to
connect, strategize and have fun!

7. We were thrilled to make several promotions to leadership (as well as several key hires) this year,
strengthening our existing leadership bench. Our top six key hires this year include CMO, RVP Sales,
VP Services, Chief Security & Information Officer, VP Product, and a VP UX. Featured here are
members of GoodData leadership team celebrating Halloween in full spirit!
6 Key Hires That Pack our
Leadership Punch

8. 7x 24 Creativity & Innovation
The favorite event of our all-star engineering teams was,
hands down, our Hackathons! The last one included 26
competing teams across locations. That meant not only
many interesting projects, but also many cups of coffee
consumed, and many hours of overtime team-building!

9. Continuous Development &
Feedback That Keep Us Agile
Change is the only constant at GoodData!
Focus on real time feedback and ongoing
development planning vs. multiple cycles of
rankings or ratings is what keeps us agile.
Thank you to all the managers and team
leads that made this possible!

10. This year we also
came together in
giving back to our
community in 9+
events in every
location.
GoodPeople DoingGood

11. Intentional Collaboration
Keeping a company connected over multiple locations, continents and time zones is
not easy, especially when we move at the speed of light. So we don’t leave
communication to serendipity, and have regularly scheduled weekly town halls,
All-Hands, and offsite meetings. Our monthly newsletter is where employees
contribute stories, pictures, and memorable moments with each other.

12. Team Events that are
Heartfelt
Lastly, our holiday parties and annual
offsites are events where we get
together, have fun, and connect with
each other in a truly memorable heartfelt
way. So, if impromptu speeches
accompanied with tears of joy, flash
mobs, et. al aren’t your thing we will
understand ….

13. Year round celebration of
successes
We fight hard to win and make sure
we take the time to recognize and
celebrate our successes and have fun
while we’re at it!

14. Read more on
gooddata.com/blog