NovoEd Partners With IMD, Wins 10 Total Brandon Hall Group 2023 HCM Excellence Awards

 NovoEd Partners With Baker Hughes and IMD to Win — Impactful Initiatives in Leadership and Learning & Development Achieved Through Collaborative Client Relationships Recognized in Industry-Defining Awards Program  

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Aug. 24, 2023 — NovoEd, the leading social and collaborative learning platform for deep capability building, is pleased to announce it has won ten medals — including seven Gold — with clients Baker Hughes and the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in the 2023 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards™. This 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 winners here. 

“It is an honor to be recognized for our work with Baker Hughes and IMD by Brandon Hall Group,” said NovoEd CEO and Chairman of the Board Scott Kinney. “We are dedicated to delivering high-impact cohort learning experiences for our clients in service of their most critical strategic initiatives. Baker Hughes and IMD are building and delivering some of the most ambitious leadership development programs in the world, and these awards speak to the transformative benefits of choosing the right technology partner to power those initiatives.” 

Baker Hughes, an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide, won five medals for their social community and knowledge-sharing experience, named CORE. Baker Hughes leverages NovoEd, an enterprise-wide virtual learning environment, to build and deliver this community-based leadership development experience to over 5,000 associates. In addition, the Baker Hughes Digital Technology team won a Gold medal for Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation.

In collaboration with NovoEd, the Baker Hughes Learning and Development team won Best Advance in Leadership Development (Gold), Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders (Gold), Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy (Bronze), and Best Use of Social/Collaborative Learning (Bronze).

“It is wonderful to be recognized along with our partners NovoEd for these awards,” said Sean Conley, Vice President of Enterprise Learning and Executive Leadership Development, and Cheif Learning Officer of Baker Hughes, “Together, we are making learning easier, more engaging, and impactful for our learners – that is always our goal.”

IMD is a pioneering force in developing leaders, and its executive education and degree programs are consistently ranked among the world’s best by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, and others. IMD won five medals for their Digital Transformation Sprint program created in partnership with NovoEd. IMD Sprint is an innovative series of programs that enables executives to go deep into particular subjects – Mastering Stress, Generative AI for business, and Digital Transformation – by committing no more than one to two hours per day over the course of two intense and insightful weeks. The next series of programs is scheduled for September 2023.

IMD Sprint was awarded Best Advance in Leadership Development (Gold), Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders (Gold), Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy (Gold), Best Use of Social/Collaborative Learning (Gold), and Best Advance in Learning Technology Implementation (Silver). The IMD Executive Education team also won two medals for customized learning journeys developed for the LEGO Group and Bank Mandiri Indonesia.

“More than anything, these awards are a testament to two of the differentiators in business education in which we take pride at IMD: the ability to put the client first and create tailor-made programs, as well as the innovative nature of constantly seeking new tools and formats to improve the learning experience,” says David Bach, Dean of Innovation and Programs and Professor of Strategy and Political Economy at IMD.

“Excellence Award winners are shown to be organizations that truly value their employees and invest in them through their human capital management programs. These HCM programs have been validated as best in class for business value and the impact on the employees themselves,” 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

“Our award winners are relentless in their pursuit of excellence,” said Brandon Hall Group Chief Executive Officer Mike Cooke. “We have received some of the most innovative use of HCM strategy that we have seen in the last 30 years, and in most cases, technology and collaboration across departments have helped them achieve amazing business results.”

About NovoEd

Founded at Stanford’s Social Algorithms Lab in 2012, NovoEd is a capability-building platform that uses social and collaborative learning to drive alignment, performance, and mobility at scale. Through cohort-based experiences, NovoEd taps into collective wisdom, placing each learner at the center of perspective, application, and expertise. Large enterprises such as 3M, GE, and Nestlé partner with NovoEd to accelerate their critical initiatives and reconnect teams through learning that is felt, experienced, and swiftly transformed into impact. Visit https://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.

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