Highlight Earns 2022 Great Places to Work Certification­™

Highlight is proud to recently be Certified™ by Great Place to Work®. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Highlight.  This year, 97% of Highlight’s employees said it’s a great place to work – 38 points higher than what the average U.S. employees say about their employer.

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention, and increased innovation.

“Great Place to Work Certification™ isn’t something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience,” said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. “It’s the only official recognition determined by employees’ real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Highlight is one of the best companies to work for in the country.”

“I’m so pleased that our employees feel that Highlight is a Great Place to Work. I’m grateful to our entire team for implementing the corporate culture I have always envisioned, combined with the business infrastructure to support it. This is a great honor, and yet we are far from finished— we still have many exciting initiatives in the queue!” said Rebecca Andino, Highlight CEO.

Highlight is proud to be an employee-owned company driven to provide impactful and rewarding careers. Our team offers robust professional development opportunities, including support to obtain professional training and certifications, internal mobility opportunities, and our two internal offerings: our Career Development and Leadership Development Programs. Highlight is also dedicated to serving our communities through our ongoing HighlightCares program. In 2021, we completed five initiatives benefiting Feeding America, One Tree Planted, the Mission Continues, and Salvation Army, donating over 30K and 350+ hours.

According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, earn a fair share of the company’s profits, and have a fair chance at promotion.

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Looking to grow your career at a company that puts its people first? Visit our careers page at: https://careers-highlighttech.icims.com.

About Highlight

Highlight Technologies (“Highlight”) is an award-winning, employee-owned, ISO® 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, ISO 44001 certified, ISO 56000 certified, CMMI-DEV Level 3, and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraised federal contractor that provides IT Digital Government, and Mission Support services to more than 20 U.S. federal government customers. Our customers include National Security (DHS, State, Army, Navy, DISA, the Joint Staff, DTRA, Intel), Health IT (USAID, USDA, NIH, HRSA, EPA) and Citizen Services (FCC, FDIC, FTC, GSA, HHS, SBA, Education, Labor). For more information, please visit www.highlighttech.com.

Check out our Great Place to Work Certification™ Profile here: https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7008283

About Great Place to Work Certification™

Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive “employer-of-choice” recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.

About Great Place to Work®

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.

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Three Ways to Restore Public Trust in Health Information

Public health information is now available in an instant to citizens, with both positive and negative consequences. This is an emerging challenge for public health leaders who must break through the noise of an ever-expanding digital landscape to educate and improve American lives.

The importance of strategic communications – especially in the fight against misinformation – was a major topic of conversation at the Annual Public Health Association’s Nation Conference in Denver, Colo., held in October 2021.

Misinformation is not just hurtful – it is lethal,” said Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, Chief Medical Officer for Prevention at the American Heart Association. The medical and public health community is being put to the test like never before. Digital misinformation shifts focus away from research and care. And Sanchez is concerned that public health leaders don’t have the tools and experience needed to combat unreliable information.

How Public Health Can Combat Misinformation

Public health messaging is largely centered around three tenets. Each requires focus and strategy:

Focus on the message: Words matter. Public health messaging must be crafted in such a way that the message is relatable to each segment of target audience.

The words, phrases, and emotions which we all use to communicate daily reflect how we are interpreting and navigating the world around us. Digital content is often at risk of miss-the-mark if developed in a bubble.

Before impactful content can be created, research must be conducted to better understand the audience: how they speak, interact, engage, and navigate online. Often the message needs to be culturally and/or socially tailored to appeal to a user’s use of language and values – a topic that NIH has been conducting extensive research over.

Focus on the message channel: The vehicle in which a message is delivered is critical. This must be taken into consideration when attempting to communicate with each group and sub-group.

The digital space will continue to expand. Conversations are happening across a variety of legacy and new applications every moment, every day. At the same time, not all communities have the same digital literacy or equitable access to the same digital tools. Public health and industry leaders must work together to build strategies that mitigate such risks to better reach all audiences with message campaigns.

Follow-through: It takes very little for the public to lose trust or faith in the public health community. Operations and logistics must be ironed out to deliver on message promises.

Trust in public health is built on consistency and transparency. The commitments we make online must be able to be honored in “real-life” as communities receive messages from our leaders. Stakeholders in the public health community such as Industry, the research community, the medical community, and others must come together to build a central message. In doing so, our leaders can cultivate inter-discipline allyship, increase the transparency of what trends are being recognized across these groups, and build skillsets and capacity across the public health community.

Our nation’s public health challenges are new, but they are not unbeatable. Let’s work to empower government agencies with expanded digital communications tools and strategies. It’s what our nation needs today to build a better tomorrow.


Written by: Emilie Scantlebury | Director of Corporate Portfolio Development

Highlight Joins UIPath Partnership Program

Highlight is proud to announce joining the UiPath Partner Network. UiPath offers the most robust, highest-rated, and most widely adopted Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform available.

Highlight provides mission-critical software development, DevSecOps, automation, and legacy system maintenance and modernization services for our federal government customers. Becoming a UiPath partner equips our team with extended automation capabilities.

Adam McNair President & COO said, “Highlight is thrilled to advance our successful experience with UiPath by joining the partner network. This engagement with UiPath furthers our capabilities to engineer and automate processes for our clients powered by our certified HI-WAY Delivery Framework.”

“As a leader in RPA, Highlight is thrilled to expand our relationship with UI Path. This represents another important tool in our DevSecOps infrastructure that enables significant value with citizen developed solutions,” said Kevin Long, VP of Portfolio.

About UiPath

UiPath has a vision to deliver A Robot for Every Person, one where companies enable every employee to use, create, and benefit from the transformative power of automation to liberate the boundless potential of people. Only UiPath offers an end-to-end platform for hyper automation, combining the leading Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities that enable every organization to scale digital business operations at unprecedented speed. The company has already automated millions of repetitive tasks for over 65% of the Fortune 500 and 8 of the Fortune 10.

About Highlight

Highlight Technologies (“Highlight”) is an award-winning, employee-owned, ISO® 9001, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, ISO 44001, ISO 56000 certified, CMMI-DEV Level 3, and CMMI-SVC Level 3 appraised federal contractor that provides IT development and transformation, secure IT operations, and mission support services to more than 20 U.S. federal government customers. Our customers include National Security (DHS, State, Army, Navy, DISA, the Joint Staff, DTRA, Intel), Health IT (USAID, USDA, NIH, HRSA, EPA), and Citizen Services (FCC, FDIC, FTC, GSA, HHS, SBA, Education, Labor). For more information, please visit www.highlighttech.com.