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 strategie

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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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In Business
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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.

Learning and
Development

Talent
Management

Leadership
Development

Talent
Acquisition

Human
Resources

Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion

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’s groundbreaking new research with 600 HR professionals worldwide reveals five distinct phases of AI progression in HR, providing a clear framework to understand where you are today and how to advance strategically
Brandon Hall Group’s Institute™ delivers game-changing research that addresses the most critical challenges facing today’s HR leaders: implementing AI-first HR functions, building psychological safety in distributed teams, and creating learning experiences that drive measurable business
QuestionPro's customer-centric approach aligns with what we consistently see from Brandon Hall Group Technology Excellence Awards™ winners in the Best Advance in Employee Experience Management Technology category — providers who prioritize solving real organizational challenges

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Workday's announcement last week of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Sana signals a major shift in how enterprises will approach both challenges. The deal, expected to close in Q4 FY2026, brings together Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with Workday's enterprise context and data to create what they're calling "the new front door for work."
Amid the glitz of Las Vegas and the size and aura of the HR Tech Conference and Expo, Sept. 16-18, it is difficult for any single tech provider to stand out in the crowd. But HiBob, the people management platform transforming how organizations operate in the modern world of work, pulled it off with its trademark mixture of substance, friendliness and fun.

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Brandon Hall Group™ Institute delivers the strategic intelligence you need to not just navigate this transformation, but to lead it with confidence and measurable results as well.
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Recent posts

Brandon Hall Group’s groundbreaking new research with 600 HR professionals worldwide reveals five distinct phases of AI progression in HR, providing a clear framework to understand where you are today and how to advance strategically toward your goals.
Brandon Hall Group’s Institute™ delivers game-changing research that addresses the most critical challenges facing today’s HR leaders: implementing AI-first HR functions, building psychological safety in distributed teams, and creating learning experiences that drive measurable business impact.
QuestionPro's customer-centric approach aligns with what we consistently see from Brandon Hall Group Technology Excellence Awards™ winners in the Best Advance in Employee Experience Management Technology category — providers who prioritize solving real organizational challenges over chasing the latest trends.
The question isn't whether BambooHR can compete with enterprise platforms — they've deliberately chosen not to. Instead, they've built something arguably more valuable: a platform that 34,000 SMBs actually want to use.
With AI-influenced Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) surpassing $5 billion and AI-first ARR exceeding their $250 million target ahead of schedule, Adobe's Q3 2025 results offer a clear message about the pace of AI transformation in the enterprise.

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Mentoring isn’t just about connection; it’s a powerful catalyst for measurable business success. But how do you move from scattered pilot programs to a clear, strategic vision that earns executive buy-in and scales with purpose?
It’s no secret that the world of work and corporate learning will look drastically different a few years from now. The problem, of course, is how to adapt to that change and make investments in L&D today that will pay off later. What technology should you prioritize? What methodologies will actually deliver results? Wouldn’t it be helpful to have a roadmap for the future of L&D?
As AI reshapes business at unprecedented speed, organizations that thrive are mastering the art of practice before performance. For example, 70% of Brandon Hall Group™’ 2025 Excellence Award winners in leadership development are using or exploring the use of simulations.
Imagine this: you deliver a high-quality soft skills course using a personality assessment, everyone loves it, ratings are exceptional—but three months later, no one can remember their own information, let alone their colleagues’ personality info. No behavior changes, no bump in leader or team performance, just assessments left in a computer folder. Sound familiar?

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Performance starts with people and leads directly to financial results. Whether you’re scaling quickly or optimizing operations, your workforce strategy plays a critical role in driving EBITDA, improving cash flow, and gaining a competitive edge.
Join us for an exclusive insider’s guide to the Brandon Hall Group’s newest award program that celebrates organizations putting employee voices at the center of their success. The Excellence in Action Awards recognize companies of all sizes that are revolutionizing employee engagement and building people-centric cultures through meaningful feedback systems.
In today’s talent landscape, organizations are facing an unprecedented retention crisis. The cost of replacing an employee can range from 50% to 200% of their annual salary, making retention a critical business imperative.
According to Brandon Hall Group Research™, time is the biggest constraint faced day-to-day in learning organizations in 2025. Training managers in large enterprise organizations know the struggle all too well: constantly putting out fires, scrambling to coordinate instructors and resources, and drowning in manual processes that prevent strategic focus.
In today’s talent landscape, organizations are facing an unprecedented retention crisis. The cost of replacing an employee can range from 50% to 200% of their annual salary, making retention a critical business imperative.
According to Brandon Hall Group Research™, time is the biggest constraint faced day-to-day in learning organizations in 2025. Training managers in large enterprise organizations know the struggle all too well: constantly putting out fires, scrambling to coordinate instructors and resources, and drowning in manual processes that prevent strategic focus.

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