Case Study: Culligan Water boosts A-player hiring and growth with Topgrading

Culligan Water - Customer Case Study

Culligan Water, a global consumer water solutions company with more than 10,000 employees, needed to rebuild its leadership bench after a private equity-led turnaround. CEO Scott Clawson turned to Topgrading, which he knew from Danaher and prior experience, because the existing management team needed extensive re-tooling to support growth, acquisitions, and stronger performance.

Topgrading helped Culligan Water replace key executives, standardize hiring with job scorecards, the Tandem Interview, and internal training, and embed the process across management hiring. With Topgrading, Culligan says 78% of 75 corporate hires became A Players, the share of high performers in corporate jobs rose to 85%, and the company surpassed $9 billion in enterprise value while driving 25%+ annual growth and more than 8% average organic growth.

Culligan Water

Gary Parkinson

Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer