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American Diabetes Association

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American Diabetes Association reviews

2.8

35% would recommend to a friend

(434 total reviews)
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Charles “Chuck” Henderson

52% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

American Diabetes Association has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 434 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The American Diabetes Association employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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434 reviews
2.0
Apr 26, 2021

Chickens Without Heads

Recommend
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Pros

Remote work and good benefits. I felt the majority of the lower level staff truly cared for the diabetes community and wanted to put them first (very kind coworkers)

Cons

Executive Team/Upper Management are out of touch with their teams and have exceptions that are unrealistic for the small teams in each market. Horrible work/life balance even in remote setting. Pay is not that great for the amount of work you are responsible for. No training or growth opportunities - they hire from outside rather than help employees grow within.

1.0
Jun 10, 2021

Toxic, Toxic, Toxic

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Benefits, Remote Work and that's about it

Cons

The CEO of this company will be the down fall. She presents herself as a woman of strong Christian faith but in words only. Her actions do not match what she says, at all. They are actually the opposite. I was involved during an interview process, where she was hiring an EA. She has an amazing conversation with this young man and offered him the position. However, he could not start when she wanted him to and he offered a viable reason as to why. He start date would have been delayed one week from their original offer. She agreed, at first then proceeds to talk bad about him and says she will apply pressure to see what his response would be. A week would not have delayed her actions, she just felt the need to control the narrative. She even texted him ON A SUNDAY, trying to apply pressure for him to start. How unprofessional is that? She gave him the weekend to think about it, but after his response was the same, She never responded to him. We were told he wasn't serious and she didn't have time. They denied him the job, then she texted him AGAIN after denying him the job attempting to explain herself. She talked about it to us later. This is extremely unprofessional, over bearing, demanding and just down right deciving!

1.0
Jun 12, 2020

An organization in free fall

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Pros

Lots of passionate staff members, good pay and benefits for a nonprofit, worthwhile Mission

Cons

Like others have stated, the problems start at the top, with the CEO, Tracey Brown. She is more interested in promoting herself and raising her profile than she is in doing what is right and needed for the organization. She talks a big game, uses a lot of big words, and is an eloquent speaker, but she is not ready to lead an organization like the ADA. She completely lost me and much of my peers when she started mandating monthly all staff events where she acted very unprofessionally. At the start of each meeting, she forced every employee to recite a reworded Walmart cheer (her previous employer was Sam's club). Sams Club cheer: Give me a S! Give me an A! Give me a M! Give me a huh! Give me a S! What's that spell? SAM'S Who's number one? The Member! What does the sign say? The sign says you've got to have a membership card to get inside. What are we going to do? Get Sales! Tracey's ADA cheer: Give me an A! Give me a D! Give me an A! What's that spell? ADA! Who's number one? The people that we serve, always! (Some weird grunt) The meeting would proceed with Tracey telling the whole organization how much the revenue goal was missed by that month. Then at the end of each meeting, you'd have to listen to her sing some god awful happy birthday remix into the phone. Needless to say, everyone was extremely uncomfortable during these meetings.

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