Institute - Your Gateway to HR & Learning Excellence

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Institute - Your Gateway to HR & Learning Excellence

Access world-class research, expert guidance, and an elite community of HR leaders to elevate your organization’s human capital strategies.

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Institute - Your Gateway to HR & Learning Excellence

Access world-class research, expert guidance, and an elite community of HR leaders to elevate your organization’s human capital strategies.

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HR Outlook

Discover how organizations are revolutionizing their HR strategies by harmonizing AI capabilities with human potential. This book provides essential insights on leveraging technology, adapting to workforce evolution, and creating future-ready talent development approaches. This comprehensive guide helps HR leaders navigate the transformative intersection of artificial intelligence and human-centered workplace practices.

Find Your Excellence Through Expert Insights

When it comes to Human Capital Management, one size does not fit all. We produce three pieces of HCM content everyday, in a variety of formats, but how we apply those insights is up to you.

Research & Analysis

Access daily insights from our extensive research library and analyst team. Get customized solutions backed by data-driven recommendations and benchmarking across industries. Our research combines theoretical frameworks with practical applications to address your most pressing HR challenges.

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Diversity, Equity
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Courses & Certifications

Elevate your expertise through our professional certification programs and online courses. Developed by industry leaders, our learning pathways cover crucial areas including L&D, Leadership Development, Talent Management, DE&I, HR, and Talent Acquisition. Build capabilities that drive organizational success.

Certifications we offer

CTAS designation

Certified Talent Acquisition Strategist (CTA)®

Three-phase program

CLDS designation

Certified Leadership Development Strategist (CLDS)®

Three-phase program

CTMS designation

Certified Talent Management Strategist (CTAS)®

Three-phase program

CHRS designation

Certified Human Resources Strategist (CHRS)®

Three-phase program

CDEIL designation

Certified Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leader (CDEIL)®

Three-phase program

CLS designation

Certified Learning Strategist (CLS)®

Three-phase program

Community & Faculty

Join an elite network of HR and learning leaders shaping the future of work. Engage with our distinguished faculty of practitioners and thought leaders through forums, roundtables, and direct consultations. Build meaningful relationships that accelerate your organization’s growth.

HCM Excellence

Announcements: August 14, 2025

Launch: January 2, 2025

Deadline April 11, 2025

The HCM Excellence Awards® recognize top organizations that successfully deployed programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems, and tools that achieved superior and measurable results in Human Capital Management. Solution Provider wanting to participate must enter with their corporate client.

Technology

Announcements: 12.4.2025

Launch 04.21.2025

Deadline 09.12.2025

The Excellence in Technology showcase ways their Human Capital Management Technology (that they developed or implemented) has measurably benefited an organization. Solution Providers and Corporate are encouraged to enter together or separately.

Education Technology

Announcements: 12.4.2025

Launch 04.21.2025

Deadline 09.12.2025

Our education audience now has a dedicated category in the Technology Awards to submit and be reviewed by your peers. Searching for EdTech companies, K-12, colleges/universities, and executive business schools.

Excellence in Action

Year-Round

Deadline 12.6.2024

Empower your workforce and amplify employee voices with Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Action

Excellence Award Insights

Gain unique perspectives from our Excellence Awards program, featuring real-world success stories from leading organizations. With half of our award winners sharing their strategies as detailed case studies, you’ll access an unparalleled library of proven solutions and innovative approaches. Learn directly from organizations that have achieved measurable results in their HCM initiatives.

Our conferences

Annual HCM Excellence Conference

Brandon Hall Group is famous for its actionable Human Capital Management research. Our annual HCM Excellence Conference delivers the same experience through a 3-day event with leading practices from award-winning organizations along with checklists, self-assessments, models, frameworks, and other tools that you can use to convert insights into measurable benefits for your organization.

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Brandon Hall Group™, the home of the prestigious HCM Excellence Awards®, today announced the winners of the 2025 Excellence in Action Awards, recognizing organizations that have demonstrated exceptional commitment to elevating their people through innovative,
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EI Powered by MPS, a Brandon Hall Group™ Platinum Smartchoice® Preferred Provider, brings over five decades of learning expertise to this integrated approach. Their comprehensive framework “LITMUS” ensures training investments drive performance gain and maximize both return on investment and return on expectation.
EI Design by MPS's Solution Architecting services provide comprehensive technical support: from learning platform architecture and integration through data engineering and analytics implementation to measuring ROI and optimizing performance. Organizations gain technical partners who bring proven methodologies for turning IT augmentation into measurable learning transformation.
EI Powered by MPS, a Brandon Hall Group™ Platinum Smartchoice® Preferred Provider, brings over five decades of expertise in building future-ready workforces. Their Solution Architecting and Learning and Performance Consulting services provide end-to-end support: from identifying business problems and skill gaps through measuring ROI and sustaining impact. Organizations gain strategic advisors who bring proven methodologies for turning needs analysis into measurable performance transformation.
As the parent company of edX, 2U has positioned itself uniquely at the intersection of higher education excellence and enterprise learning needs. With over 99 million learners connected to their platform and partnerships with more than 250 leading universities and industry experts, they’ve built something remarkable: a bridge between academic rigor and workplace relevance.
Brandon Hall Group's Institute™ latest collection features an exceptional collection of 43 case studies showcasing measurable results, 10 advanced practitioner tools and 4 strategic frameworks, each designed to turn insight into competitive advantage. This week's research arsenal delivers the evidence-based intelligence HR and L&D leaders need to close the year strong and build momentum for 2026.

Complimentary Webinars on the latest HCM trends and best practices. Participate live or view them on-demand.

Join us for an exclusive 30-minute webinar featuring a trio of learning leaders from Cognizant, winner of multiple Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.
Brandon Hall Group’s latest research shows that only 42% of organizations report strong alignment between learning initiatives and business goals. The same study finds that time, more than budget or technology, is now the biggest constraint facing L&D teams.
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Join us for an exclusive 30-minute webinar featuring the American Medical Association (AMA), winner of the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence GOLD Award in Best Use of Performance Support.

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Join us for an exclusive 30-minute webinar featuring a trio of learning leaders from Cognizant, winner of multiple Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.
Join us for an exclusive 30-minute webinar featuring the American Medical Association (AMA), winner of the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence GOLD Award in Best Use of Performance Support.
Less than 10% of organizations are realizing meaningful business impact from AI — yet nearly every company has a roadmap. Why? Most are investing 90% of their energy in technology and only 10% in people. In fact, the next frontier of value creation lies not in bigger systems, but in reimagining how work actually gets done.
Brandon Hall Group’s latest research shows that only 42% of organizations report strong alignment between learning initiatives and business goals. The same study finds that time, more than budget or technology, is now the biggest constraint facing L&D teams.
Less than 10% of organizations are realizing meaningful business impact from AI — yet nearly every company has a roadmap. Why? Most are investing 90% of their energy in technology and only 10% in people. In fact, the next frontier of value creation lies not in bigger systems, but in reimagining how work actually gets done.
As L&D and training leaders look ahead to 2026, the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and video is redefining how organizations create, deliver, and personalize learning experiences. Brandon Hall Group, the leading research and analyst firm, joins forces with HeyGen, the cutting-edge AI video platform, to share groundbreaking insights into the trends shaping the next era of workplace learning.

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Wether you’re navigating change or building what’s next, Institute gives you the insights and tools to lead with clarity and confidence.

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Wether you’re navigating change or building what’s next, Institute gives you the insights and tools to lead with clarity and confidence.