Institute - Your Gateway to HR & Learning Excellence

Access world-class research, expert guidance, and an elite community of HR leaders to elevate your organization’s human capital strategie

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Institute - Your Gateway to HR & Learning Excellence

Access world-class research, expert guidance, and an elite community of HR leaders to elevate your organization’s human capital strategies.

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Institute - Your Gateway to HR & Learning Excellence

Access world-class research, expert guidance, and an elite community of HR leaders to elevate your organization’s human capital strategies.

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Employees Developed
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In Business
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HR Outlook

Discover how organizations are revolutionizing their HR strategies by harmonizing AI capabilities with human potential. This book provides essential insights on leveraging technology, adapting to workforce evolution, and creating future-ready talent development approaches. This comprehensive guide helps HR leaders navigate the transformative intersection of artificial intelligence and human-centered workplace practices.

Find Your Excellence Through Expert Insights

When it comes to Human Capital Management, one size does not fit all. We produce three pieces of HCM content everyday, in a variety of formats, but how we apply those insights is up to you.

Research & Analysis

Access daily insights from our extensive research library and analyst team. Get customized solutions backed by data-driven recommendations and benchmarking across industries. Our research combines theoretical frameworks with practical applications to address your most pressing HR challenges.

Learning and
Development

Talent
Management

Leadership
Development

Talent
Acquisition

Human
Resources

Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion

Courses & Certifications

Elevate your expertise through our professional certification programs and online courses. Developed by industry leaders, our learning pathways cover crucial areas including L&D, Leadership Development, Talent Management, DE&I, HR, and Talent Acquisition. Build capabilities that drive organizational success.

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

Community & Faculty

Join an elite network of HR and learning leaders shaping the future of work. Engage with our distinguished faculty of practitioners and thought leaders through forums, roundtables, and direct consultations. Build meaningful relationships that accelerate your organization’s growth.

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

Excellence Award Insights

Gain unique perspectives from our Excellence Awards program, featuring real-world success stories from leading organizations. With half of our award winners sharing their strategies as detailed case studies, you’ll access an unparalleled library of proven solutions and innovative approaches. Learn directly from organizations that have achieved measurable results in their HCM initiatives.

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.

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In an era where human capital management can make or break organizational success, Brandon Hall Group's Institute™ stands as the definitive source for actionable insights and innovative strategies. This past week alone, we released an impressive collection of research assets that demonstrate our unwavering commitment to helping HR, learning, and talent management professionals navigate today's evolving workplace landscape.
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Learning and development stands at a critical juncture where traditional approaches to measurement and analytics are proving insufficient for demonstrating value and driving strategic impact. Organizations increasingly recognize that effective L&D requires sophisticated measurement frameworks
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Brandon Hall Group’s Institute™ continues to lead the way in delivering actionable insights and innovative strategies for HR, learning, and talent management professionals. This past week's collection of new research and resources demonstrates our commitment

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OpenSesame is in the process of solving a major corporate learning content dilemma through three integrated products: a curated marketplace of 40,000+ courses, Simon (their AI course creation tool), and Oro (their career development platform). Their secret weapon isn't technology alone — it's the combination of human curation with intelligent automation.
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Grady Gardner, Head of Client Success at Braintrust, along with Ben Erickson from their sales team, to understand how this company has evolved from a recruiting marketplace business for software engineers into one of the most sophisticated AI interviewing solutions in the market.
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with the team at ETU — including Phill Miller, their new CEO, Conor Gaffney, Head of Product, and East Apthorp, their CMO — to understand what they're building in this evolving space. What they shared, along with broader conversations across the industry, reveals that this shift isn't just about adopting new technology; it's about fundamentally changing how we approach skill development at scale. The combination of AI, immersive media, and sophisticated analytics is making previously complex and expensive simulation training accessible to organizations of all sizes.
Today’s organizations need more than traditional HR approaches — they need cutting-edge insights, proven strategies, and actionable solutions. Brandon Hall Group’s Institute™ delivers exactly that through an unprecedented collection of research, microcourses, and strategic guidance that transforms how you approach talent management, learning, and organizational development.
I recently connected with Scott Rutherford, Head of Marketing, Jason Ruff, Partner, and Herb Blanchard, Partner at Axiom Learning Solutions to discuss their approach to L&D professional services. Organizations consistently face the same challenge: they need specialized learning expertise, but building internal teams with every required skill isn't always practical.

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

HR leaders are uniquely positioned to drive organizational success, yet many struggle to create a direct line between employee experience initiatives and C-suite objectives. The highest priority for HR leaders this year is to improve the alignment between HR strategy and business objectives, the Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Outlook 2025 research shows.
The rules of talent management have fundamentally changed. Organizations that continue relying on traditional approaches face mounting challenges: skills obsolescence, employee expectations for meaningful growth, workforce inclusion demands, and increasingly complex labor markets.

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The rules of talent management have fundamentally changed. Organizations that continue relying on traditional approaches face mounting challenges: skills obsolescence, employee expectations for meaningful growth, workforce inclusion demands, and increasingly complex labor markets.
The rules of talent management have fundamentally changed. Organizations that continue relying on traditional approaches face mounting challenges: skills obsolescence, employee expectations for meaningful growth, workforce inclusion demands, and increasingly complex labor markets.

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