NovoEd Honored for its Role in Advancing AI Leadership in the Brandon Hall Group™ 2025 HCM Excellence Awards®
Leading Talent Development Technology Provider Recognized for Programming with Respected Capability Building Firm in Prestigious Industry Awards Program
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2025 – NovoEd, the leading enterprise talent development technology provider that empowers organizations to scale high-impact learning, mentoring, and practice, is excited to announce its five medals in partnership with a strategic client partner in the 2025 Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards®. This influential industry awards program recognizes best practices for initiatives in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Sales Performance, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and the Future of Work. View the complete list of 2025 honorees here.
NovoEd was recognized with this timely honor for helping build a learning program engineered to equip leaders to harness the power of AI — from strategy to transformation — in order to strengthen and future-proof their organizations. The NovoEd Platform provides a cohesive guided experience for this dynamic initiative, emphasizing peer learning, feedback, and practice and application. With every deployment the team is able to measure ROI and business impact to the client, demonstrating real skills mastery and true business impact.
“It is a distinct honor to be recognized by Brandon Hall Group™ for our work in developing this AI-focused leadership program, equipping professionals with foundational information and a shared language to understand core AI concepts and how to implement them successfully,” said NovoEd CEO and Chairman of the Board Scott Kinney. “Built on proven learning science, the NovoEd Platform drives engagement, collaboration, and skill application to develop a future-ready workforce. This program was developed at the right moment in time to fill a learning gap for evolving market demands.”
The NovoEd partnership resulted in Brandon Hall Group™ 2025 HCM Excellence Awards® across five categories, including:
- Best Executive Development Program – Silver
- Best Learning Team – Silver
- Best Custom Content – Bronze
- Best Learning Technology Implementation – Bronze
- Best Use of AI for Business Impact – Bronze
“This year’s Excellence Award winners exemplify the transformative power of strategic human capital management. Through their innovative approaches to talent development and employee engagement, these organizations have not only achieved remarkable business outcomes but have also redefined what it means to create truly people-centric workplaces. Our comprehensive evaluation process has identified these programs as benchmarks for organizational excellence and innovation,” said Brandon Hall Group Chief Operating Officer Rachel Cooke, HCM Excellence Awards® program leader.
Entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts, and executives based on these criteria:
- Alignment to their business need, and environment
- Program design, functionality, and delivery
- Adoption, integration, user experience, innovation, and creativity
- Overall effectiveness, impact, and measurable benefits
“The 2025 Excellence Award recipients represent the pinnacle of achievement in human capital management. What sets this year’s winners apart is their bold embrace of emerging technologies and their commitment to creating meaningful employee experiences that drive tangible business results. These organizations have demonstrated that when you invest in your people with purpose and innovation, the impact resonates throughout the entire enterprise, creating sustainable competitive advantages in today’s dynamic business landscape,” said Brandon Hall Group™ Chief Executive Officer Mike Cooke.
About NovoEd
Founded in 2012 out of the Stanford Social Algorithms Lab, NovoEd is an enterprise talent development technology provider that enables organizations to scale high-impact learning, mentoring, and practice. Built on proven learning science, the NovoEd Platform drives engagement, collaboration, and skill application to develop a future-ready workforce. Global enterprises rely on NovoEd to foster deep capability-building and continuous workforce transformation. Visit novoed.com to learn more.
About Brandon Hall Group
Brandon Hall Group™ is the only professional development company that offers data, research, insights, and certification to Learning and Talent executives and organizations. The best minds in Human Capital Management (HCM) choose Brandon Hall Group™ to help them create future-proof employee development plans for the new era.
For over 30 years, we have empowered, recognized, and certified excellence in organizations worldwide, influencing the development of over 10 million employees and executives. Our HCM Excellence Awards® program was the first to recognize organizations for learning and talent and is the gold standard, known as the “Academy Awards of Human Capital Management.”
The awards recognize the best organizations that have successfully developed and deployed programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems, and tools that have achieved measurable results. We are honored to receive applications from organizations worldwide ranging from small, medium, large, and global enterprises to government, not-for-profits, and associations.
Media Contact:
Richard Caccavale
Vice President of Marketing
richard.caccavale@novoed.com
