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Keynote speaker Shola Richards speaks during the 11th annual OC Top Workplaces at the City National Grove of Anaheim on Thursday, December 6, 2018. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
Keynote speaker Shola Richards speaks during the 11th annual OC Top Workplaces at the City National Grove of Anaheim on Thursday, December 6, 2018. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
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It was a full house Thursday night at the City National Grove of Anaheim, where hundreds of employees and their bosses gathered to fete Orange County’s Top Workplaces.

The 11th annual program honored 140 local companies and organizations.

The large company winner was Experian in Costa Mesa. The midsize winner was Moulton Niguel Water District, followed by the small company winner, SetSchedule of Irvine.

The event’s keynote speaker was Shola Richards, an author known for his kindness and moniker “Brother Teresa,” a nod to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

“If you want to go fast, go alone,” he said. “But if you want to go far, go together.”

The annual program celebrates Orange County companies, organizations and nonprofits that embrace an inclusive workplace culture that elevates each employee.

Starting in June, the Register nominations from firms and organizations, as long as they had at least 35 employees in the county. Participants could be public, private, nonprofit or governmental.

Survey partner Energage of Philadelphia invited 1,274 employers in the county to take the free employee survey. In all, 196 organizations employing 40,564 people in the county agreed to participate. Of those employees who received questionnaires, 24,187 responded, either on paper or online.

The Top Workplaces 2018 list of winners includes 15 large companies (those with 500 or more employees in the county), 45 medium-sized companies or organizations (100-499 workers) and 80 small businesses (35-99 employees).

Large company winners

1. Experian North America

2. HomeSmart Evergreen Realty

3. New American Funding

4. Optima Tax Relief

5. Panda Restaurant Group

6. Rosendin Electric, Inc.

7. MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center

8. BEHRProcess Corp.

9. American Advisors Group

10. Fullerton School District

11. MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center

12. MemorialCare Shared Services

13. Silverado Senior Living

14. Placentia-Yorba Linda USD

15. MemorialCare Medical Group

Mid-size company winners

1. Moulton Niguel Water District

2. Marque Medical

3. Service Champions Heating & Air Conditioning

4. Essex Mortgage

5. Seven Gables Real Estate

6. Edward Jones

7. Zillow Group

8. CBE Office Solutions

9. Seneca Family of Agencies

10. Roth Staffing Companies, L.P.

11. Parcel Pending

12. TAIT & ASSOCIATES

13. Aldi

14. Online Trading Academy

15. Americor Funding, Inc.

16. John Patterson’s OC Auto Team

17. Toshiba America Business Solutions

18. Freedom Village Continuing Care Retirement Community

19. Fuscoe Engineering, Inc.

20. CrowdStrike Inc.

21. DreamHost

22. Nations Direct Mortgage, LLC

23. Glaukos Corp.

24. Trace3

25. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

26. Jones Lang LaSalle

27. Toll Brothers, Inc.

28. CyberCoders

29. Reborn Cabinets

30. Ferry International, LLC

31. Credit Union of Southern California

32. Hoag Orthopedic Institute, LLC

33. Mobilityware

34. Burns & McDonnell

35. MS International, Inc

36. Astronics Test Systems

37. Pacific Mercantile Bank

38. Fluidmaster

39. Love 2 Learn Consulting LLC

40. Main Electric Supply

41. Lyon Living

42. Stance

43. Advanced Management Company & R³ Construction Services, Inc.

44. Medical Specialties Managers, Inc.

45. Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

Small company winners

Setschedule LLC

Sidepath

Vincit

QYKSonic

Fenix Consulting Group

6 SureFire CPR

7 RailPros

8 Regents Capital Corporation

9 DEB Construction, LLC

10 Ytel, Inc.

11 H. Hendy Associates

12 Signature Resources – MassMutual

13 Plutos Sama

14 SendGrid

15 Athens Administrators

16 TechMD

17 Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, Inc.

18 Advanced Behavioral Health

19 RiverRock Real Estate Group

20 QuestSoft

21 theLender

22 PeopleG2

23 Swift Health Systems dba INBRACE

24 Visioneering Studios, Inc.

25 Seabreeze Management Company, Inc.

26 MFour Mobile Research

27 Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire

28 Kimco Staffing Services/KTimeHR

29 Kagan Publishing & Professional Development

30 College Works Painting

31 Coury and Buehler PT

32 Everest Escrow

33 W. L. Butler

34 QALO

35 SCI Lighting Solutions

36 Orion Lending

37 LCPtracker, Inc.

38 Orange County Rescue Mission

39 BigRentz, Inc.

40 Consolidated Contracting Services, Inc.

41 Earth Friendly Products

42 Wes-Tec, Inc

43 Technologent

44 Veri-Tax

45 Momentum Group

46 Edinger Medical Group

47 Orion Risk Management

48 Boy Scouts of America

49 Realty ONE Group

50 True Recovery, Inc.

51 Healthy Smiles for Kids of OC

52 Smart Circle

53 Pro-Dex, Inc.

54 Tevora

55 Radiant Health Centers

56 Savills Studley

57 CPS Insurance Services

58 Unire Real Estate Group

59 Portfolio

60 Ephesoft

61 Sober Living By The Sea

62 Western Resources Title Company

63 CleanCut Technologies

64 Sourcing Solutions LLC

65 American Income Life – Orange County

66 Voxx Analytics, LLC

67 BluePoint Mortgage

68 Tutton Insurance Services, Inc.

69 Buchalter

70 Integrated Project Services, LLC

71 Trafalgar

72 Kush Bottles

73 Wunderman

74 Robert Half

75 On Target Solutions, LLC

76 Brown & Streza

77 Roland DGA Corporation

78 Murow|CM

79 Netwrix

80 Thermal-Vac Technology, Inc.

To participate in the 2019 program, just go to ocregister.com/nominate.

The awards presented during the 11th annual OC Top Workplaces at the City National Grove of Anaheim on Thursday, December 6, 2018. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)