ATD Award Programs

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AdventHealth
Executive Leadership Program
Category: Leadership/Management Development
Partner: C Factor Consulting
To build a pipeline of future executives, the cohort-based program delivers custom curriculum journeys, coaching, and assessments during six multiday intensives that address the company's mission, spiritual integration, and executive acumen. The program has resulted in a decrease in recruitment costs, an increase in talent mobility, and a dynamic learning community.

AIA Group Limited
SPARK Leadership Development Program
Category: Leadership/Management Development
Using blended learning, the program equips senior leaders with the essential mindset, skills, and behaviors to drive sustainable business growth. The practice cultivates strategic agility, enterprise-wide collaboration, and an innovation-driven culture to navigate the rapidly changing industry landscape.

American Residential Services
HVAC Maintenance Technician Program
Category: Career Development
The 10-week, multimodality training initiative equips new hires with the necessary skills and knowledge to become proficient maintenance technicians. More than 60 technicians have gone through the program and completed more than 14,000 service calls, generating a significant increase in revenue.

China Telecom
Cultivation Practice for Talents Dispatched Overseas
Category: L&D
The training initiative serves the employees located in the organization's international markets. More than 6,000 people have participated in the program, which enhances professional competencies, overseas culture, foreign language skills, business communications, and security and risk prevention.

Sales Performance Improvement
Category: L&D
Online learning and practical coaching with artificial intelligence—both via a video and live-streaming platform—help enterprises within the organization solve traffic operation and monetization problems without increasing in-store costs or personnel. An enterprise-level matrix creates full-touchpoint interactive marketing and empowers stores to increase sales performance.

CIMC Container (Group) Company Limited
Innovation Talent Program
Category: Leadership/Management Development
Cultivating a group of young staff with excellent leadership and management competencies, this practice helps participants significantly improve business-development, team-building, innovation, and change management capabilities.

Cognizant
ADM Role Maturity RoadMap
Category: L&D
A streamlined road map ensures that participants develop skills through group clusters. The initiative helps individuals align with the demands of their current roles while preparing them for future roles. The learning solutions and key milestones enable associates to navigate their career growth.

Automotive Skill Development Program
Category: Performance Consulting/Performance Improvement
Self-learning modules, trainer-led sessions, hands-on practices, assessments, and certifications are components of this blended, end-to-end technical training program. It uses external original equipment manufacturers for their expertise, efficiency, and certification, along with internal trainers and subject matter experts.

Director + Leader Onboarding Program
Category: Onboarding
The program propels newly promoted or hired leaders toward success. By acclimating, assimilating, and accelerating their leadership journey, participants focus on leading themselves, leading others, and leading the business. The journey equips leaders to build key relationships, thrive, and deliver results.

Early Career Talent Bootcamp
Category: L&D
Associates early in their careers take this five-day program to learn the foundational knowledge and professional and leadership development skills that center around five key capabilities addressing 16 topics. The interactive and dynamic learning experience concludes with a final project presentation and has led to a 92 percent retention rate six months postprogram.

External Certification Enablement and Engagement for Data+
Category: L&D
The EXCEED program is a strategic L&D initiative that provides associates with a comprehensive pathway to prepare, practice, and achieve proficiency in more than 60 technical certifications. It's a one-stop learning solution offering everything from prerequisites and preparation materials to practice labs and mock tests, culminating in certification with record completion.

GLIDE on a Learning Cruise
Category: L&D
The integrated talent management program brings together multiple organizational functions to upskill associates and prepare them for diverse roles while increasing bench strength and meeting client commitments. GLIDE addresses skills gaps and uses self-paced study, mentorship, practical labs, and case studies to create an innovative and personalized program.

Compass Group (North America)
Upward: Women in Culinary Leadership Program
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
The 12-week blended learning journey targets women culinarians who are managers or aspire to management. The program includes a personalized assessment; a customized learning plan with application activities, resources, and training; online instructor-led training that culinary leaders and industry experts facilitate; mentorship; self-directed learning; and opportunities to connect with peers and managers to accelerate learning.

DataArt
Tech Skills Mentoring Program
Category: Coaching and Mentoring
This practice-based initiative meets mentees' needs through regular one-on-one guidance with an experienced mentor over a three-month period. With a flexible, participant-oriented approach, the program enhances engineering excellence, upskilling, engagement, and satisfaction.

Datavant
Leadership, Growth and Development
Category: Leadership/Management Development
Integrating personalized learning and performance management to enhance leadership effectiveness and engagement, the program increases participant satisfaction and promotion rates. The comprehensive initiative addresses critical leadership gaps and fosters a culture of excellence and innovation, equipping leaders to navigate business complexities and drive sustainable success.

Discovery
Business Boost: Flash Sales
Category: L&D
Through short, sharp, and targeted learning content, the program systematically builds learning into daily functions without any major time commitments. The practice drives engagement and creates an environment of growth, thus solving a major business need and having a positive impact on the sales force, clients, and the organization.

Engro Polymer and Chemicals Limited
Integrated Capability Development Framework
Category: Managing the Learning Function
The program develops safe and efficient plant operations and processes through an end-to-end framework for technical talent development. It increases productivity, reduce losses, enhances safety, and promotes a learning culture.

Equinix
Sales Onboarding for Accelerated Ramp
Category: Onboarding
SOAR is a five-month onboarding initiative that infuses culture, productivity, networking, and sales enablement. The program starts on all new hires' first day and includes a role-specific 30 Day Start Kit, virtual and in-person workshops, weekly reinforcement lessons, practice and coaching opportunities supported by peer-to-peer learning, artificial-intelligence tools, and customized content.

EY
Diversified Staffing Group In-Residence Program
Category: L&D
Through a combination of work experience and structured learning, the initiative grows today's tax professionals to be tomorrow's leaders. The program's three main pillars (experience, learning, and coaching) offer a comprehensive and innovative best-in-class tax L&D model.

GF Securities
Building a Leading Wealth Management Business
Category: Performance Consulting/Performance Improvement
The training and performance improvement counseling program targets employee performance gaps and capability enhancement through overseas training, practical training, and establishing professional standards.

Corporate Culture Training and Promotion Project
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
The cultural study and promotion project has established and implemented operational norms along with company culture and values. The three-tier corporate culture curriculum system benchmarks individuals practicing company core values.

KPMG
Taxila: The Partner Development Initiative
Category: Leadership/Management Development
The leadership development initiative combines immersive learning, one-on-one mentoring, and coaching to senior leaders. The ecosystem inspires learning that leads to organizational success.

LifeNet Health
LevelUp Leadership Development Program
Category: Leadership/Management Development
The virtual program prepares high-performing individual contributors for leadership positions. Participants discuss articles, complete e-learning courses, and consume podcasts or videos in geographically diverse, cross-departmental teams. The initiative continues to successfully increase retention, promotion, and lateral rates.

Mediatek
New Manager Development Program
Category: Leadership/Management Development
NMDP reflects a corporate goal to transition the organization from a market follower to a technology leader by tackling two challenges: lack of managerial leadership to meet new business demands and managing cultural integration postacquisition. The three-phased initiative includes components such as pre-reading, workshops, postworkshops, and a practicum.

Moxa
Sales Management Excellence
Category: Sales Enablement
The practice enhances global sales representatives' expertise in key selling strategies, equipping them with essential skills and tools for effective customer collaboration and long-term success. The training program includes a five-stage selling process, consultative selling, a sales call simulation, presentation of account and opportunity plans, objection handling, and strategies for engaging with diverse customer styles.

North American Bancard
LevelUp Leadership Certification
Category: Leadership/Management Development
Partner: Aha! Leadership
The comprehensive program gives newly hired and first-time, midlevel managers fundamental leadership concepts that align with the company's core values and competencies. The experience entails self-instructed lessons that focus on tactical management training, instructor-led workshops on leadership and competency development, and practical application.

Novartis
Talent Scouting
Category: Integrated Talent Management
The initiative proactively attracts, engages, and prepares diverse leaders for critical roles, augmenting traditional recruitment methods. Through strategic planning, data-driven decision making, and active candidate engagement across multiple channels, the program reduces time to hire, improves quality of hires, enhances employer branding, and increases diversity.

PETRONAS
Innovation Engine
Category: Integrated Talent Management
The holistic practice builds a sustainable culture of innovation to drive business outcomes. The program emphasizes that individuals build capability outside the classroom and brings intentional focus to activating innovators in their current context.

Reliance Retail Limited
Building Leaders for Tomorrow
Category: Leadership/Management Development
The Leadership Academy equips leaders across all levels to be role models of the company's cultural ethos and work practices. L&D grounded the initiative in the organization's leadership archetypes that reflect ideal leader behaviors. The development journey includes programs tailored to different organizational bands. Results include people-first mindsets, an innovation culture, and enhancement in hypercollaboration.

Nurturing a Coaching Culture
Category: Coaching and Mentoring
To enable managers and leaders to engage in a developmental relationship with their team members, the program uses a coaching-on-demand technology platform to connect employees and certified coaches. The goal is to create behavioral changes such as higher empathy, structured thinking, active listening, self-reflection, and increased psychological safety.

Salesforce
Global Leadership Coaching Center of Excellence
Category: Coaching and Mentoring
Partners: BetterUp, Center for Creative Leadership
The program accelerates performance, personal growth, and stronger employee engagement through one-on-one coaching, skill-building training, and learning practice. The initiative provided personal leadership and executive coaching to more than 14,600 leaders, built coaching skills for more than 5,300 managers, and trained more than 270 internal coaches.

Samaritan Health Services
Career-Con
Category: Career Development
The month-long event highlights career development programs and resources in efforts to promote employee retention and satisfaction. The event is accessible to all staff regardless of job type and includes in-person events, virtual engagement activities, drop-in learning sessions, scavenger hunts, and coaching.

Siemens, China
Foster a Culture of Skill-Based Learning
Category: L&D
The practice equips employees with critical skills through diverse learning events, platforms, and community support, ensuring staff remain relevant and resilient in a rapidly changing environment. The holistic approach has significantly boosted engagement, skills acquisition, and overall organizational performance.

Sinopec Management Institute
Strategic Talent Development Program
Category: L&D
The three-year training initiative helps the organization develop a reserve of talent by establishing criteria and conducting a skills inventory, accurately identifying key staff for development. The long-term, capability-oriented, learning-and-practice-centeric program drives advancement and learning transfer in employees.

SolarEdge
Company Certification Program
Category: Customer Service Training
The initiative guides more than 370,000 installers across the world on their journey from onboarding to certification, while preventing common installation mistakes. It has a digital format and focuses on cultivating experts through real-life examples and challenges.

SprintRay
The Leadership Sprint
Category: Onboarding
The intensive, six-month onboarding program integrates newly hired and promoted directors and above into the company culture, builds essential relationships, and aligns with strategic goals. The essential techniques include regular feedback, coaching, and structured assessments.

Sungrow
Comprehensive Executive Advancement Program
Category: Leadership/Management Development
The program targets high-potential executives and senior managers from diverse global operations. The nine-month experience enhances leadership capabilities through a blend of personalized learning paths, practical application, and continuous feedback.

Thai Oil Public Company Limited
5 Happiness: Holistic and Fully Online Well-Being Program
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
The initiative focuses on five dimensions: physical, mental, financial, social, and cultural well-being. It creates a positive, thriving, and satisfying work environment where employees feel supported and work-life balance improves.

T-Mobile
Career Ride-Along
Category: Career Development
The internal mobility program provides frontline employees with a hands-on, multiday experience at the company's headquarters. It encompasses job shadowing, engagements with leadership, and tailored developmental sessions as approaches to growing careers, fostering discovery, and building confidence.

Tsingtao Brewery Company Limited
Beer Brewer Class
Category: Career Development
The project provides a platform for high-performing and highly capable technical employees to enhance their skills through learning and exchange, while outlining comprehensive career development paths. It offers knowledge and skills training via blended learning, comprehensive process tracking, and coaching.

Universal Beijing Resort
Universal Way
Category: Customer Service Training
Partner: UMU
The practice transforms correct understanding into concrete service behaviors through the 70-20-10 learning theory, social learning, and an evaluation. It enables participants to correctly understand the service models and standards of the theme park industry, exhibit service behaviors that align with the standards, and unify team service behaviors across different service scenarios.

US Customs and Border Protection
Basic Import Specialist Training Course
Category: Integrated Talent Management
BIST uses instruction from subject matter experts, case study examination, and performance-based learning to shift the organization to a more agile posture with less processing time and greater flexibility. The initiative requires learners to demonstrate competencies and empowers specialty upskilling in onboarding and performance management modules.

Crawl, Walk, Run Initiative
Category: Change Management
The training model aims to shift the organization's philosophy to align with leadership policies on workforce care, resiliency, and training. The goal is twofold: Decrease the loss of potential workforce personnel due to high testing failure rates and ensure the best possible outcome for those trainees when they successfully pass their required training.

Fentanyl Detection Canine Course
Category: L&D
The initiative upskilled frontline canine teams in detecting, safely seizing, and executing emergency responses to fentanyl contamination, overdoses, and illegal trading. The practice also upskilled instructors in safely handling training aids and providing emergency responses during training exercises, resulting in no injuries and a yearly increase of fentanyl seizures at US ports of entry.

Versant Health
Customer Service New Hire Training
Category: Onboarding
The six-week hybrid program comprises instructional activities, call simulations, and a nesting experience. Customer service representatives develop skills around organizational goals and objectives, processes and procedures, medical terminology, technical systems, and exceptional service.

ZoomInfo
Go-to-Market Onboarding
Category: Onboarding
The 90-day program combines a one-week boot camp with role-specific paths using diverse training methods that align to a skills framework. The regimen uses clear milestones and mixed modalities to continually build muscle memory and transform new hires into peak performers.

ZTE Corporation
Improving Effectiveness of Compliance Training for All Employees
Category: L&D
The initiative adopts a dynamic person-course-scenario matching mode to deliver tailored compliance training to a global workforce. It significantly improved business efficiency, enhanced the company's brand image, and ensured business security and continuity.

ABN AMRO Bank
Net Promoter Score Complaints Program
Category: Change Management
Partners: EarlyBridge; Faculty of Skills
The competency-based program delivers a customer experience that focuses on engaging customers around their emotions before resolving their complaints. The initiative leverages skill coaches and artificial intelligence.

Albertsons Companies
Assistant Store Director Training Program
Category: L&D
The initiative develops leaders through an immersive 10-week, on-the-job program at a training store and blended learning training sessions. Participants work closely with a cohort of peers. More than 950 associates have gone through the program.

Bell Partners
Certified Bell Maintenance Technician
Category: Learning Technologies
This e-learning, technology-based practice certifies maintenance staff and helps reduce knowledge gaps. It leverages virtual reality to assess, train, and upskill talent.

Charles Schwab
New Employee Recruitment and Development Program
Category: Onboarding
A two-week onboarding cohort helps new-to-career employees acclimate to software environments, processes, and tools during their first nine months. The program uses coaching, mentoring, and on-the-job training, which helps provide participants with a support network and sets them up for success.

China Telecom
Performance Improvement Practice for Sales Specialist in Business Hall
Category: L&D
China Telecom used a blend of learning and training modalities to enhance sales skills and performance improvement among sales specialists.

Cognizant
Developing the Leaders of Tomorrow
Category: Leadership/Management Development
Partner: Vyond
This 10- to 12-week, multipronged approach builds enterprise-wide leadership development to provide frontline leaders with new-age leadership skills and a growth mindset. The practice has resulted in increased retention, and 55 percent of frontline leaders received promotions.

IGNITE Hackathon
Category: L&D
The blended learning hackathon spans 21 weeks, covering four phases: nomination, qualifier, ideation, and build. It helped associates work collaboratively in a community model and develop minimum viable products through an immersive and curiosity-driven learning experience in soft skills and technology trends.

Project & Program Management Community
Category: L&D
The initiative is an immersive, interactive, and comprehensive certification that goes beyond conventional project management programs. It empowers and upskills associates with the right set of project and program management competencies and tools.

Systemic Sales Transformation
Category: Sales Enablement
Partner: Productivity Dynamics
The multiyear initiative improves the skills of the global sales force to expand the business of selling to companies looking for digital transformation solutions.

D&H Distributing
Sales Foundations Learning Series
Category: Sales Enablement
The 13-module, interactive program elevates the sales force and positions account representatives as proactive business advisors.

EPAM Systems
Engineering Excellence
Category: L&D
Engineering Excellence is an innovative educational system catering to employees with different backgrounds, providing tailored learning paths that strategically align with various roles and project scopes. The practice uses a skills self-assessment, learning framework, and mentoring process to address inconsistent skill sets across the company.

Infosys BPM Limited
Techno Domain Specialization
Category: Career Development
To enable career development and drive internal talent growth, the Techno Domain practice has multiple cloud-enabled assessments, learning plans, and incentivized badges for each domain learners complete, leading to better employee retention.

Kia
Onboarding - Step 2 (Understanding Value Chain)
Category: Onboarding
The program is the second part of an overall five-step onboarding practice that uses a unique, value chain board game covering the various roles and functions of divisions across the organization.

Leidos
CareerPrint
Category: Learning Technologies
This cybersecurity career development tool helps employees self-assess their capabilities against a target baseline of cybersecurity skills tailored to the organization's standardized work roles as well as the National Initiative Cybersecurity Education Cyber Workforce Framework. The initiative addresses skills gaps and develops employee skills.

LocumTenens.com
Internship Program
Category: Managing the Learning Function
The cohort-based program provides students with professional and personal development opportunities while building a talent pipeline across the organization. The initiative enabled more internship consistency and cross-department collaboration, expanding the impact on diversity, equity, and inclusion and strengthening workforce development with local colleges and universities.

LPW Training Services
Focus Up: The PM Advantage Pathway
Category: Career Development
The 18-month initiative aims to help interested employees and external contractors accelerate their project management skills. The training journey includes multiple modalities of training, certification testing, and simulated project management as well as exposure, mentorship, and career planning.

Mars China
China Impactful Leadership Camp
Category: Leadership/Management Development
The seven-week learning journey leverages practice in the flow of work, timely feedback, coaching, and social learning. Nearly 100 leaders have gone through the program in three years, which has resulted in them accelerating their capabilities while driving business growth.

Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore
Training Institute Model of Excellence (TIME)
Category: Managing the Learning Function
TIME is a two-step approach comprising a self-assessment and an external validation component that evaluates eight specific areas to enhance the learning function and build future readiness.

NetEase Games
Reserve Supervisor Training Program
Category: Leadership/Management Development
This initiative provides customized learning courses to equip newly promoted frontline managers with the required skills and qualities in management positions and create a sustainable talent training and development model.

Sands China Limited
The Knowledge
Category: L&D
The training initiative focuses on rebranding initiatives the company implemented to create passionate brand ambassadors, equipping them to deliver bespoke guest experiences while keeping team members engaged and motivated. Structured with three stages, the program presents participants with unique challenges and offers exclusive rewards and recognitions. Upon completing each stage, participants earn an exclusive pin.

SAP
Year One Success for All in Customer Success
Category: Onboarding
During this comprehensive, yearlong program, participants learn the fundamentals for success in their new role, including in-depth knowledge of the portfolio and services, tools, functional and professional skills, and behaviors for helping customers make a smooth transition from on-premise software to the cloud.

Siemens
MyGrowth
Category: L&D
MyGrowth takes a user-centered approach, aligning with business needs and combining self-reflection tools with highly personalized learning pathways; career progression tools; and continuous, frequent conversations about development, well-being, and performance. The program has had a 505 percent increase in digital learning hours since 2019.

Sinopec Management Institute
International Sales Professionals Development Program
Category: L&D
The practice develops qualified international sales professionals to meet urgent business needs. Based on an efficient select-train-assess-transfer model, this initiative has successfully developed an internal talent pipeline for international sales.

TELUS
Gamified Learning for Efficient Performance Improvement
Category: Performance Consulting/Performance Improvement
Partner: The Training Arcade
The gamification framework has direct impact on client key performance indicators, removes the traditional challenges of content creation, and empowers subject matter experts to build meaningful and engaging content for the front line. That led to a 34 - 76 percent performance improvement range.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
MyMentoring Program
Category: Coaching and Mentoring
Partner: Chronus
The practice is organized around four pillars: connections, DEI focus, cohort-based, and recognition and education. The framework enables employees to engage in one-on-one career mentoring, inclusive onboarding, engagement circles, and leadership development courses. MyMentoring entails ongoing measurement and evaluation, a Mentoring Council, Mentoring Day, and Mentoring Awards.

Unisys
U-Lead Journeys
Category: Leadership/Management Development
The program spans eight weeks (two hours per week), encompassing five online modules, three virtual instructor-led sessions, a variety of one-on-ones, 360-degree feedback, goal setting, and 120-day postprogram content for learning retention. That has led to higher engagement and reduced learning time.

University of South Florida
Online Instructor Certification Program
Category: L&D
The initiative has quickly upskilled hundreds of faculty. The four-week, redesigned certification provides faculty with best practices in digital learning and online pedagogy. Cohort participation increased while maintaining high feedback, serving as a key initiative in ensuring academic continuity.

Ziraat Bank
Banking School Program
Category: L&D
The comprehensive learning and talent development initiative offers a structured curriculum, real-world internships, and a university partnership for academic excellence. Over several months, participants gain in-depth knowledge and skills in banking operations, risk management, customer service, and digital banking, leading to increased employability and enhanced performance.

ZTE Corporation
Supply Chain Lean Empowering Project
Category: L&D
Through a series of operations knowledge management and efficiency improvement measures carried out in three years, ZTE established an efficient lean talent empowerment system to facilitate solutions to business problems, such as long production lead time, while exploring the talent value activation and evaluation model to effectively guide behavior change of lean talents.

Organizations that have won the BEST Awards 10 or more times:

10-time winner: Busey, Champaign, Illinois

12-time winner: Florida Blue - GuideWell, Jacksonville, Florida

12-time winner: Valvoline Instant Oil Change, Lexington, Kentucky

13-time winner: Infosys Limited, Bengaluru, India

14-time winner: ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company, Mumbai, India

16-time winner: University Health, San Antonio, Texas

17-time winner: Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India

20-time winner: Wipro Limited, Bengaluru, India

21-time winner: TELUS, Vancouver, Canada

1: Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri A.Ş., Istanbul, Turkey

2: Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası, Istanbul, Turkey

3: Peach State Truck Centers, Norcross, Georgia

4: Teknasyon, Istanbul, Turkey

5: Panda Restaurant Group, Rosemead, California

6: DataArt, New York, New York

7: Fisher Investments, Plano, Texas

8: Limak Cement, Ankara, Turkey

9: Plante Moran, Southfield, Michigan

10: Tiger Analytics, Santa Clara, California

11: NEQSOL Holding, Amsterdam, Netherlands

12: Fabletics, El Segundo, California

13: Limbach, Warrendale, Pennsylvania

14: Prudential Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong

15: Eurest USA, Charlotte, North Carolina

16: Genpact Limited, New York, New York

17: Apple Federal Credit Union, Fairfax, Virginia

18: Charles Schwab, Westlake, Texas

19: Eksim Holding, Istanbul, Turkey

20: Northwest Federal Credit Union, Herndon, Virginia

21: Wynn Macau Limited, Macau

22: GlobalLogic, Santa Clara, California

23: TikTok (Global Engagement), Beijing, China

24: Cultivate, Melbourne, Florida

25: Axis Bank Limited, Mumbai, India

26: AECOM, Dallas, Texas

27: Dynata, Shelton, Connecticut

28: Gilbane Building Company, Providence, Rhode Island

29: Los Angeles County Department of Health Services - Leadership Development Program, Los Angeles, California

30: First Horizon Bank, Memphis, Tennessee

31: Granite Construction Inc., Watsonville, California

32: Samsung Semiconductor US, San Jose, California

33: Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling, Niles, Illinois

34: Toyota Türkiye Marketing and Sales, Istanbul, Turkey

35: Indian Oil Corporation Limited, New Delhi, India

36: China Telecom, Shanghai, China

37: Woodlands Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

38: Revature, Reston, Virginia

39: City of Houston HR Center for Public Leadership and Learning, Houston, Texas

40: University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico

41: Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel), Muscat, Oman

42: UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota

43: Ramco Systems Limited, Chennai, India

44: Amazon India Operations, Bengaluru, India

45: Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, Gurugram, India

46: Sundt Construction, Tempe, Arizona

47: Hyundai Department Store Group, Seoul, Korea

48: Paylocity, Schaumburg, Illinois

49: Busey, Champaign, Illinois

50: Cathay Life Insurance Company, Taipei

51: 104 CORPORATION, Taipei

52: Pegasus Airlines, Istanbul, Turkey

53: Firstsource Solutions Limited, Mumbai, India

Organizations that have won the BEST Awards 10 or more times
20-Year Winner: TELUS
19-Year Winner: Wipro Limited
16-Year Winner: Tata Consultancy Services
15-Year Winner: University Health
13-Year Winner: ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company
12-Year Winner: Infosys Limited
11-Year Winner: Florida Blue - Guidewell

Organizations that have won the BEST Awards 10 or more times
19-Year Winner: TELUS
18-Year Winner: Wipro Limited
15-Year Winner: Tata Consultancy Services
14-Year Winner: University Health
12-Year Winner: ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company
11-Year Winner: Infosys Limited
11-Year Winner: Valvoline Instant Oil Change
10-Year Winner: Florida Blue - Guidewell

1. AMH
2. Saudi Aramco - Technical Services Professional Academy
3. NTPC Limited
4. Larsen & Toubro Limited
5. Plante Moran
6. Capital One
7. AKBANK
8. Alamo Colleges District
9. Brisa Bridgestone Sabanci
10. Paylocity
11. Cathay Life Insurance Company
12. Florida Blue – GuideWell
13. Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)
14. Tech Mahindra Limited
15. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
16. HCL Technologies
17. European Wax Center
18. Allianz Commercial
19. EXL
20. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
21. Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
22. Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group
23. ZS Associates
24. Busey
25. Procede Software
26. Allianz Turkey
27. M&T Bank
28. Cisco Systems
29. Choice Hotels International
30. MGM China
31. Medical Solutions
32. Limbach
33. Nu Skin China
34. Melco Resorts & Entertainment
35. AECOM
36. DataArt
37. QinetiQ US
38. LifeNet Health
39. WNS
40. Enerjisa Enerji
41. Huntington National Bank
42. US Customs and Border Protection
43. Qisda Corporation
44. SunTec Business Solutions
45. Fisher Investments
46. Gilbane Building Company
47. Panda Restaurant Group
48. Infosys BPM Limited
49. Apple Federal Credit Union
50. NewRocket
51. EPAM Systems
52. Tusas Engine Industries (TEI)
53. Thomas Automotive
54. Western & Southern Financial Group
55. North Highland Consulting
56. Centene Corporation
57. ServiceNow
58. Hilti
59. Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits
60. Chegg
61. Accelalpha
62. Altria
63. Zoetis China
64. Herc Rentals
65. Innova Solutions
66. USAble Life
67. PPL Electric Utilities
68. Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA)
69. Lupin Limited
70. Erie Insurance
71. BankWest
72. Navy Federal Credit Union

Wes Wessinger
Talent and Development Program Manager
ReWa

Herminia Ibarra
Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior
London Business School

Zachary
Engineering and Construction

Michelle Baker
Chief People Officer
FORUM Credit Union

Kassy LaBorie
Founder and Principal Consultant
Kassy LaBorie Consulting

Prudential Financial

Michael Bungay Stanier
Founder
MBS.works

During its 2025 International Conference & Exposition in Washington, DC, the Association for Talent Development (ATD) recognized organizations and individuals for their excellence and contributions across the talent development field.

“ATD award winners reflect a deep commitment to the value of developing people in the workplace. Winning organizations demonstrate how aligning talent development (TD) to business needs can increase the performance and success of organizations worldwide,” said ATD President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Bingham. “These winners’ accomplishments advance knowledge in the talent development profession and contribute to increasing workforce capability and organizational competitiveness.”

Individual honorees in the Advancing Talent Development category included:

One to Watch Award: Stephen Scheib, Merck & Co.
Dissertation Award: Amber Barger, Columbia University
Talent Development Outstanding Professional Award: Tim Wu, Chailease Financial Holding and Myra Roldan, UnDesto AI
Talent Development Champion Award: Adam Grant
Talent Development Thought Leader Award: Whitney Johnson

Sprintray was honored with the Talent Development for Good Award, which recognizes organizations that leveraged talent development to make significant contributions to improve the lives of others, change an industry or community for the better, or powerfully serve society.

Saudi Aramco received the ATD Certification Institute Champion Award.

The Champion Award is presented to an individual outside or on the periphery of the talent development profession whose commitment, advocacy, and actions in support of talent development have influenced audiences, organizations, or society. This year’s recipient is Adam Grant.

The Thought Leader Award recognizes individuals’ exceptional contributions to talent development. Winners of this award have contributed significant thought leadership to the profession, which has had a sustained impact over several years. ATD presented this year’s award to Whitney Johnson.

During its 2024 International Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Association for Talent Development (ATD) recognized organizations and individuals for their excellence and contributions across the talent development field.

“ATD award winners reflect a deep commitment to the value of developing people in the workplace. Winning organizations demonstrate how aligning talent development (TD) to business needs can increase the performance and success of organizations worldwide,” said ATD President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Bingham. “These winners’ accomplishments advance knowledge in the talent development profession and contribute to increasing workforce capability and organizational competitiveness.”

Individual honorees in the Advancing Talent Development category included:

One to Watch Award: Joselito Ereño, Ayala Foundation
Dissertation Award: Yu-Ling Chang, Pennsylvania State University
Talent Development Outstanding Professional Award: Keith Lillico, Merck & Co.
Talent Development Champion Award: Marshall Goldsmith
Talent Development Thought Leader Award: Britt Andreatta

ATD recognized ITRI College of Industrial Technology Research Institute with its Innovation Award. This award recognizes innovation that has had a measurable impact on an organization or audience, is moving the talent development industry forward, is sustainable, and is replicable within or outside the talent development field.

EPAM Systems was honored with the Talent Development for Good Award, which recognizes organizations that leveraged talent development to make significant contributions to improve the lives of others, change an industry or community for the better, or powerfully serve society.

Alliant Insurance Services received the ATD Certification Institute Champion Award.

The Champion Award is presented to an individual outside or on the periphery of the talent development profession whose commitment, advocacy, and actions in support of talent development have influenced audiences, organizations, or society. This year’s recipient is Marshall Goldsmith.

The Thought Leader Award recognizes individuals’ exceptional contributions to talent development. Winners of this award have contributed significant thought leadership to the profession, which has had a sustained impact over several years. ATD presented this year’s award to Britt Andreatta.