Among millions of American workplaces, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation again finds itself in exclusive company.
OMRF was named Thursday to the 2025 Top Workplaces USA list, becoming one of just 179 employers nationally to receive that recognition each of the five years the list has existed.
The rankings, announced Thursday, resulted from a national survey co-sponsored by USA Today and Energage, a Philadelphia-based research and consulting firm.
Energage conducts anonymous surveys of employees on factors such as job satisfaction, management quality, pay and benefits, and opportunities for growth. OMRF has ranked among Oklahoma’s top 10 large employers each year since 2013 and has placed in the top five for nine straight years.
Nationally, OMRF ranked 31st among workplaces with 500 to 999 employees. In their survey responses, employees cited OMRF’s family atmosphere, supportive and creative culture, workforce diversity and emphasis on work-life balance.
“What we have at OMRF is truly special – a culture that’s almost indefinable,” said Courtney Stevens Greenwood, the foundation’s vice president of human resources. “During the hiring process, it can be tough to capture that magic in words, but once someone begins their career with us, they typically experience it for themselves.”
For Padmaja Mehta-D’souza, Ph.D., that magic is the spirit of collaboration and emphasis on everyone feeling valued.
After leaving her native India in 1993 to join OMRF as a postdoctoral researcher, Mehta-D’souza was quickly impressed with the foundation’s collegial interactions, as supervising scientists often sought input even from their graduate students.
Now a lab manager and staff scientist, Mehta-D’souza’s experiences over three decades have reinforced that first impression.
“OMRF is a place where scientists at all levels from all over the world come to learn from each other,” she said. “I tell everyone what a blessing it is to work here.”
