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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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.

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Development

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Management

Leadership
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Talent
Acquisition

Human
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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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The latest research from Brandon Hall Group’s Institute delivers the frameworks, methodologies, and proven implementations that transform learning from a compliance function into a strategic driver of business performance, cultural transformation, and sustainable competitive advantage.
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Brandon Hall Group™ is proud to announce the launch of the Certified AI Transformation Strategist (CAITS) program, a research-based, hands-on certification designed exclusively for Institute Members. The program equips HR and business leaders to build,

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Brandon Hall Group™, the home of the prestigious HCM Excellence Awards®, today announced the winners of the 2025 HCM Excellence in Technology and Education Technology Awards, recognizing breakthrough innovations that are redefining the future of Human Capital Management and education outcomes across learning, talent, leadership, HR, DEI, workforce development, and academic performance
Cloverleaf's focus on learning effectiveness, not just learning delivery, positions them uniquely. While competitors chase enterprise accounts by matching feature checklists and pricing models, Cloverleaf asks a different question: How do we make development sustainable in the actual environment where work happens
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For talent leaders evaluating options, the question isn't whether you need better leadership development (you do). It's whether you need leadership development that can keep up with how fast your organization is moving. If the answer is yes, DDI's approach deserves a serious look — particularly if you're in one of those industries where strategic agility has become a competitive requirement.
Kudos provides tools that turn recognition from an HR program into a cultural operating system.

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Join Brandon Hall Group executives as they announce the winners of the coveted 2025 Excellence in Action Awards Programs in a live web event!
Leadership pipelines are under unprecedented pressure. Business transformation, digital disruption and AI are reshaping required capabilities faster than traditional high-potential programs can keep up.
Ready to submit to the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards, but not sure where to start? This comprehensive webinar will guide you through every section of the application process, transforming it from overwhelming to achievable.
Brandon Hall Group’s latest research shows that only 42% of organizations report strong alignment between learning initiatives and business goals. The same study finds that time, more than budget or technology, is now the biggest constraint facing L&D teams.

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Brandon Hall Group’s latest research shows that only 42% of organizations report strong alignment between learning initiatives and business goals. The same study finds that time, more than budget or technology, is now the biggest constraint facing L&D teams.
Join us for an exclusive 30-minute webinar featuring The Retirement Advantage, winner of the prestigious Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Award in Competencies and Skill Development.
Join Brandon Hall Group executives as they announce the winners of the coveted 2025 Excellence in Action Awards Programs in a live web event!
Leadership pipelines are under unprecedented pressure. Business transformation, digital disruption and AI are reshaping required capabilities faster than traditional high-potential programs can keep up.
Join us for an exclusive 30-minute webinar featuring DataArt, winner of the prestigious Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Award.
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Wether you’re navigating change or building what’s next, Institute gives you the insights and tools to lead with clarity and confidence.