Your organization must meet ​the following​​ criteria to participate in the survey: 

• Have at least six employees who will be invited to participate in the survey (full-time and/or part-time). Organizations will receive results if at least five employees complete the survey. 
• Be based in North America. 
• Organization is a Jewish organization (in any way defined and affirmed by the organization itself). 
• Be a recognized nonprofit according to the tax laws of their resident country or has a fiscal agent that is a recognized nonprofit according to the tax laws of their resident country. 
• Have been in existence for at least three years. 

None! Thanks to our philanthropic supporters, everything about the Employee Experience Survey comes at no cost to your organization. We believe organizations should have access to the tools and resources they need to become even better places to work.

To participate, you will need to provide information about your organization, including address, contact information for your top most professional leader and a designated Survey Liaison (see more below), and organizational information such as team size and budget size. 

The Survey Liaison is the one person your organization will designate as the primary contact for Leading Edge to communicate with during the survey process. This person is responsible for completing tasks related to survey administration (Leading Edge will provide instructions) and is often someone whose role includes HR functions.

Note: We can only accommodate one person as the Survey Liaison.

For staff to participate, your Survey Liaison will provide Leading Edge with each employee’s work email address. You’ll maximize the utility of your data by being intentional and thoughtful around who you include and which demographic information you submit on the HRIS.

Yes. Leading Edge guarantees the confidentiality of all organizations and employees. That means no one from outside your organization will see your data, and your organization’s leaders will not know which employee gave which responses. We are committed to ensuring no individual organization’s data is ever made public. Any data that we share with the public (such as in reports like this one) will only be in the aggregate across many organizations, and will adhere to strict confidentiality thresholds.  

To ensure that staff feel comfortable being as honest as possible, your organization will never have access to individual responses or know who has responded to the survey.  Leading Edge and our survey platform, Culture Amp, will protect this information through a set of safeguards and security protocols, and results will be reported to organizational leaders as part of the organization's overall data. Organizational leaders will be able to view and group data in different ways, but at no point will organizations have access to responses associated with any individual.  

Organizations with at least 15 employees must achieve a 33% participation rate to receive access to their report and consultation. For organizations with less than 15 employees, at least 5 employees need to respond to the survey in order to get access to the report and a consultation. 

Leading Edge aims to provide a valuable survey experience for all organizations, and results representing less than one-third of employees are not considered valid or reliable as they risk an inaccurate portrait of the organization. Research shows that participation rates lower than 70% on engagement surveys does not accurately represent the body of employees within an organization.  

While the minimum threshold is 33%, Leading Edge aspires to a 70%+ level of participation for 2025. We’ll have resources available to help organizations achieve this participation threshold before registration opens. 

If the May 2025 survey doesn’t feel like the right moment to survey your team, you may consider the January 2026 Employee Experience Survey. Look for an invitation to register in November 2025.

Registration for the 2025 survey will open on February 25, 2025. 

You can contact our survey team at surveys@leadingedge.org. We’re happy to help!