SweetRush wins 28 awards at the 2024 Brandon Hall Group Awards in 16 categories for L&D Solutions, including multiple wins for competencies and skills development, blended learning, and games and simulations for learning.
San Francisco, Calif., August 28, 2024 — SweetRush, a leading provider of customized talent empowerment and people success solutions, along with its client-partners, takes home 28 prestigious Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards®, including 27 Gold awards and one Silver.
These accolades are shared with client-partners Capgemini, Hilton, and Regions Bank, who rely on SweetRush’s expertise in the craft of learning and development to enable change within their organizations.
“We share this incredible recognition with our clients, whose commitment to excellence drives us forward,” said SweetRush CEO Danielle Hart. “Our clients come to us to solve their toughest business challenges with creative and impactful learning solutions that we’ve come to be known for. This shared commitment to groundbreaking work continues to drive the evolution of the L&D industry, and we’re honored to be at the forefront.”
The awards reflect the breadth and depth of the SweetRush team’s expertise, spanning multiple HCM Excellence categories across five program areas: Learning and Development, Sales Performance, Talent Acquisition, and Future of Work.
Highlights include:
- Awards in 16 unique categories
- Three Gold awards for Best Use of Games and Simulations for Learning
- Three Gold awards for Custom Content Learning
- Two Gold awards for Best Competencies and Skill Development
- Two Gold awards for Best Results of a Learning Program
- Two Gold awards for Best Coaching and Mentoring Program
- Gold wins in categories for upskilling, blended learning, video for learning, and hybrid learning programs, among others
SweetRush’s award-winning projects foster employee growth and development, transforming workplaces and lives. This year’s programs include those that are enabling:
- Customer service teams in the hospitality industry to effectively manage customer resolution via an immersive AI-powered learning experience that simulates authentic customer interactions.
- New bank tellers prepare for the demands of their first few days and weeks on the job via an engaging new hire onboarding experience that features games, simulations, and community-based learning experiences.
- Corporate and guest-facing teams to recognize and report the compliance and privacy concerns that are unique to their workplace via a fun and memorable video series that educates and entertains.
- Global team members of a tech firm to remain vigilant and proactive at noticing and preventing potential compliance issues via a heart-pounding, scenario-based compliance experience that presents real life dilemmas.
“These awards are not just a recognition of our past achievements, but a springboard for the future,” said Annie Hodson, Chief Client Solutions & Marketing Officer at SweetRush. “This is just the beginning. We’re fired up to keep innovating, pushing the envelope, and crafting learning experiences that truly empower people and organizations to thrive in the future.”
SweetRush supports clients within industries including business services, banking and finance, healthcare, consumer goods, automotive, retail, nonprofit, and pharmaceuticals.
SweetRush’s 2024 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards:
27 GOLD AWARDS
- Best Coaching and Mentoring Program [x2]
- Best Competencies and Skill Development [x2]
- Best Compliance Training [x1]
- Best Custom Content Learning [x3]
- Best Hybrid Learning Program [x3]
- Best Leadership Development Program
- Best New Hire Onboarding Program
- Best Program for Upskilling Employees
- Best Results of a Learning Program [x2]
- Best Senior Manager Development Program [x2]
- Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program [x2]
- Best Unique or Innovative Sales Training Program
- Best Use of a Blended Learning Program
- Best Use of Games and Simulations for Learning [x3]
- Best Use of Social Collaborative Learning
- Best Use of Video for Learning
1 SILVER AWARD
Best Use of a Blended Learning Program
“Excellence Award winners are shown to be organizations that truly value their employees and invest in them through their human capital management programs,” said Brandon Hall Group™ Chief Operating Officer Rachel Cooke, HCM Excellence Award® program leader. “These HCM programs have been validated as best in class for business value and the impact on the employees themselves.”
“Our award recipients demonstrate an unwavering commitment to excellence in human capital management,” said Brandon Hall Group Chief Executive Officer Mike Cooke. “This year, we’ve witnessed some of the most groundbreaking applications of HCM strategies in our organization’s history. Many of these innovations leverage cutting-edge technologies and foster unprecedented levels of cross-functional collaboration, resulting in remarkable improvements in operational efficiency and employee engagement.”
Entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts, and executives based upon these criteria: alignment to their business need and environment; program design, functionality, and delivery; adoption, integration, user experience, innovation, and creativity; and overall effectiveness, impact, and measurable benefits.
If you’d like to speak to SweetRush about its award-winning approach to learning and development, visit the company website.
View the winners on the Brandon Hall Group website. Congratulations to all!
About SweetRush
SweetRush is trusted by many of the world’s most successful companies to help them improve the performance of their employees and extended enterprise. SweetRush is known for exceptionally creative and effective solutions that combine the best of learning experience design with highly engaging delivery. SweetRush services include custom L&D solution design and development, high-performing staff-augmentation talent staffing, certification development, and innovative learning technologies such as VR, AR, and AI. SweetRush’s work has earned a long list of awards and accolades in collaboration with its world-class clients. Discover more at www.sweetrush.com.
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.”
