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Driving Business Transformation Through Human Capital Excellence

Provide CHROs, CLOs, and workforce leaders with the intelligence, tools, and community they need to make better human capital decisions, strengthen organizational capability, and accelerate business performance.

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Driving Business Transformation Through Human Capital Excellence

Provide CHROs, CLOs, and workforce leaders with the intelligence, tools, and community they need to make better human capital decisions, strengthen organizational capability, and accelerate business performance.

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Why Brandon Hall Group™

Our Vision

A world where every HR organization drives business transformation through human capital excellence.

Our Mission

We provide CHROs, CLOs, and workforce leaders with the intelligence, tools, and community they need to drive business transformation through human capital excellence. 

HR Outlook

We have entered the Year of Progression. As AI becomes embedded across the enterprise, the real differentiator is no longer access to technology but the ability to align human potential with intelligent systems. HR Outlook 2026 examines how organizations are reimagining leadership, learning, inclusion, talent acquisition, and talent management to create sustainable, human-centered advantage.

Discover what the progressors are doing differently

Find What Works. Drive Business Transformation.

Human capital strategy isn’t one-size-fits-all. We combine proven practices, benchmarking, and advisory to help you apply what works inside your organization.

Better Decisions

Independent research, benchmarking, and analyst insights that help leaders evaluate strategy, technology, and workforce investments with confidence.

Learning and
Development

Talent
Management

Leadership
Development

Talent
Acquisition

Human
Resources

Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion

Stronger Organizational Capability

Develop leaders, teams, and HR capabilities that accelerate execution and improve business performance

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

Executive Collaboration

Connect with senior HR and business leaders to exchange ideas, validate strategies, and learn from organizations solving similar challenges.

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

Proven Practices

Learn from award-winning organizations that have demonstrated measurable business impact through leadership, learning, talent, and HR excellence.

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.

One Program. Multiple Ways to Engage.

The Brandon Hall Group Eminence Program brings together our research, advisory, capability development, and executive community into a single experience designed to help organizations make better human capital decisions and
accelerate business transformation.

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Brandon Hall Group™ launched a new study on who actually owns skills strategy inside the enterprise, alongside a research brief on why so many change initiatives stall before they stick. We also spotlighted 10 new Excellence in Action Case Studies spanning financial services, HR technology, professional services, automotive, healthcare, aviation and banking, plus a webinar on compliance training, additional research and fresh blog content.
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Explorance World's theme, Wired to Know: Listening in the Age of Intelligence, provided an appropriate backdrop for discussions that ranged from employee listening and workforce performance to learning effectiveness, governance, benchmarking and organizational change.
Brandon Hall Group™, a preeminent research and analyst firm, today announced the launch of The State of Skills in 2026 study, a comprehensive survey examining how organizations define, track and act on employee skills data.
Instructure, a Brandon Hall Group™ Eminence Partner, developed the Canvas Career platform around a specific design philosophy: The learner comes first, skills are the organizing principle and demonstrated outcomes are the measure of success. Where

Recent posts

Compliance training reaches every employee yet gets the least design attention. See how leading companies reimagined it.
Scheer IMC supports more than 12 million learners across 1,300 organizations worldwide and maintains a 98 percent customer retention rate across its active enterprise client base. For organizations facing the governance, data segregation and performance challenges that come with scaling a learning platform to genuine enterprise complexity, that combination of architectural depth and reference client evidence is a concrete starting point for the evaluation process.
Instructure, a Brandon Hall Group™ Eminence Partner, has integrated thoughtful AI governance principles into the design of Canvas Career. The platform offers opt-in controls for AI features, enabling learners and organizations to engage with AI capabilities by choice rather than by default. Instructure refers to this as “AI nutrition facts,” a transparency mechanism that documents AI operations and the guardrails in place.

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

Join us for the announcement of the 2026 HCM Excellence Awards winners! This online event will recognize organizations demonstrating exceptional innovation and results in human capital management across multiple categories. Discover which companies are setting new benchmarks in talent development, organizational culture, employee experience, and business performance. All award applicants and HCM professionals are welcome to attend.
Join us for the announcement of the 2026 HCM Excellence Awards winners! This online event will recognize organizations demonstrating exceptional innovation and results in human capital management across multiple categories. Discover which companies are setting new benchmarks in talent development, organizational culture, employee experience, and business performance. All award applicants and HCM professionals are welcome to attend.
Join us for the announcement of the 2026 HCM Excellence Awards winners! This online event will recognize organizations demonstrating exceptional innovation and results in human capital management across multiple categories. Discover which companies are setting new benchmarks in talent development, organizational culture, employee experience, and business performance. All award applicants and HCM professionals are welcome to attend.
Today’s hiring challenge is not simply a labor shortage. Many organizations face high applicant volume but still struggle to identify, engage, and hire the right talent quickly, fairly, and effectively. Brandon Hall Group™ research finds that only 1 in 5 organizations applies a standardized screening process consistently, a sign that the real issue is often a matching problem driven by fragmented workflows, outdated criteria, and resume-first filters.

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Agentic AI has moved from buzzword to boardroom mandate, but most L&D functions are being asked to deploy technology they have never seen work in practice.
Learning organizations have never had more data. Yet many still struggle to answer the question executives care about most: How is learning improving performance and driving business results?
AI is reshaping how decisions are made across the enterprise, but not how leaders are prepared to make them.
Most employee recognition programs are well-intentioned but don’t quite deliver the goods when it comes to impact. Research shows that 79% of programs are considered only moderately effective or worse
AI is reshaping how decisions are made across the enterprise, but not how leaders are prepared to make them.
Most employee recognition programs are well-intentioned but don’t quite deliver the goods when it comes to impact. Research shows that 79% of programs are considered only moderately effective or worse

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Excellence at Work Podcast Episode 324: How Paylocity’s Leading Advantage Program Is Redefining Leadership Pipeline Development

In this episode of the Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work podcast, host Rachel Cooke, COO of Brandon Hall Group™,

Excellence at Work Podcast 323: Building Capability in the Age of AI: What L&D Leaders Need to Know

In this Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work Podcast, Rachel Cooke, Chief Operating Officer at Brandon Hall Group, and Scott

Excellence at Work Podcast Episode 325: The Control Tower of Sustainability — How Boehringer Ingelheim Turned Learning Into a Business Strategy

In this Brandon Hall Group™ Excellence at Work Podcast, Rachel Cooke, Chief Operating Officer at Brandon Hall Group, Michael Murphy,

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