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.

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 Institute has a comprehensive arsenal of research, proven frameworks, and real-world success stories that demonstrate how leading organizations are achieving breakthrough results. Our latest collection showcases everything from AI-powered talent management and inclusive hiring practices to documented case studies proving 100% retention rates and 93% training time reductions.

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ActivTrak has grown tremendously in the past two years, with 70% year-over-year growth in enterprise deals, suggesting they're hitting a nerve in how organizations think about workforce optimization.
Hone serves mid-market and enterprise customers, typically brought in initially for manager development but increasingly deployed company-wide with the AI capabilities making broader access more feasible. Based on their customer base and solution architecture, several profiles stand out.
I recently met with Laure Lot, TechWolf's London-based executive, for a detailed briefing about their workforce intelligence platform. TechWolf has built what they call "the foundational data layer" that connects jobs, tasks and skills data to provide deep workforce intelligence for enterprises navigating transformation.
In a move that signals a major shift in how organizations will manage their workforces, UKG and Google Cloud have announced a sweeping expansion of their partnership that promises to bring sophisticated agentic AI capabilities to tens of millions of workers worldwide.
Betterworks occupies an interesting position in the evolving performance management market. Its transformation from OKR specialist to comprehensive performance platform mirrors a broader market shift: Organizations no longer want disconnected point solutions for every HR process, but they also resist the rigidity of traditional HCM suites.

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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.
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.

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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.

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