AI-Powered Excellence Meets Strategic Leadership: Your Complete Guide to Award-Winning Organizational Transformation from Brandon Hall Group™

Organizations are discovering that true excellence requires more than just technology adoption—it demands strategic integration of learning, talent, and leadership development. That’s why Brandon Hall Group’s Institute™ has been working relentlessly to deliver the most relevant, actionable research to help you navigate today’s complex transformation challenges.

We published an extraordinary collection of new assets last week designed to address your most critical needs. Whether you’re implementing real-time learning dashboards, driving organizational transformation through talent management, or building coaching excellence programs, we’ve got the award-winning insights you need.

 

🏆 CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE: 2025 HCM Excellence Awards® Winners

Last week marked a significant milestone with the announcement of our 2025 HCM Excellence Awards® Winners, recognizing organizations that have achieved measurable results through innovative approaches to learning, talent management, and HR excellence. These award-winning organizations represent the pinnacle of strategic execution and provide real-world validation of the methodologies and technologies featured in our research.

 

BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH: Three Game-Changing Assets That Will Transform Your Strategic Approach

📊 Master Real-Time Learning Intelligence: Dashboards That Drive Strategic Decisions

Strategy Brief: Real-time Learning Effectiveness Dashboards

This comprehensive strategy brief explores the strategic implementation of real-time learning effectiveness dashboards that transform how organizations measure, monitor, and optimize their learning investments. Modern learning leaders need immediate visibility into program performance, learner engagement patterns, and business impact metrics to make data-driven decisions. The brief covers essential frameworks for dashboard design, key performance indicators that matter, stakeholder communication strategies, and advanced analytics approaches that connect learning activities directly to business outcomes and organizational performance.

 

🚀 Transform Your Organization: The Critical Role of Learning and Talent Management in Strategic Change

Research Note: The Critical Role of Learning and Talent Management in Transformation

Organizational transformation has become a business imperative, with companies facing rapid technological change, evolving workforce expectations, and competitive pressures requiring fundamental shifts in strategy and operations. This Brandon Hall Group™ research note addresses the complexities of transformation leadership, examining how learning and talent management functions serve as strategic catalysts for organizational change. The research explores critical success factors including change readiness assessment, capability development frameworks, cultural transformation strategies, and the integration of learning systems with broader transformation initiatives.

 

💼 Build Excellence Through Strategic Development: The Coaching Framework That Transforms Leaders

Strategy Brief: Coaching — Building Excellence Through Strategic Human Development

This Brandon Hall Group™ strategy brief addresses the strategic implementation of coaching programs that drive measurable leadership excellence and organizational performance. As organizations seek to develop internal capability while managing talent retention and succession planning, coaching emerges as a critical tool for accelerating professional growth and building leadership pipeline strength. Key focuses include coaching methodology selection, internal versus external coaching strategies, measurement frameworks, and integration with broader talent development initiatives to ensure sustainable impact and ROI.

 

COMPLETE ARSENAL: Your Strategic Advantage Across Every Excellence Domain

This latest batch of Institute assets represents our commitment to providing comprehensive, research-backed solutions across all facets of organizational excellence. Here’s your complete strategic toolkit.

🎯 Learning Strategy & Effectiveness

🔄 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Excellence

🏢 Industry-Specific Solutions

🎙️ Leadership Insights & Expertise

 

TECHNOLOGY THAT TRANSFORMS: Real Innovation from Real Organizations

Our technology spotlights showcase cutting-edge solutions delivering measurable impact:

Plus More Game-Changing Technology Spotlights:

 

💡 Why Brandon Hall Group’s Institute™ is Your Competitive Edge

In an era where organizational transformation defines market leadership, companies need more than just best practices—they need research-backed strategies that have been proven to drive measurable excellence. Our Institute™ provides:

  • Strategic Intelligence: Every piece of research is designed for immediate strategic application and measurable impact.
  • Award-Winning Methodologies: Our frameworks are validated by real organizations achieving exceptional results.
  • Future-Ready Insights: We don’t just analyze current trends—we help you prepare for the next wave of organizational evolution.
  • Comprehensive Coverage: From real-time dashboards to strategic coaching, we address every aspect of organizational excellence.

 

🚀 Your Next Step: Transform Insight into Award-Winning Excellence Today

These latest assets represent hundreds of hours of research, analysis, and real-world validation from award-winning organizations. They’re not just theoretical frameworks—they’re practical tools designed to help you achieve the kind of measurable results that define industry leadership.

Whether you’re looking to implement real-time learning effectiveness dashboards, drive organizational transformation through strategic talent management, or build coaching programs that develop exceptional leaders, Brandon Hall Group’s Institute™ has the award-winning insights you need.

Ready to unlock your organization’s excellence potential? Explore these latest assets and discover how the right insights can transform your approach to organizational excellence.

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Recognizing, Empowering, and Certifying HCM Excellence around the world since 1993. Our research, data, and insights fuel the best minds in Human Capital Management to help them create future-proof learning, talent, and HR strategy for the new era of work.

 

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Chief Executive Officer of Brandon Hall Group Mike Cooke Prior to joining Brandon Hall Group, Mike Cooke was the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of AC Growth. Mike held leadership and executive positions for the majority of his career, at which he was responsible for steering sales and marketing teams to drive results and profitability. His background includes more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, management, and operations in the research, consulting, software and technology industries. Mike has extensive experience in sales, marketing and management having worked for several early high-growth emerging businesses and has implemented technology systems to support various critical sales, finance, marketing and client service functions. He is especially skilled in organizing the sales and service strategy to fully support a company’s growth strategy. The concept of growth was an absolute to Mike and a motivator in starting AC Growth, in order to help organizations achieve research driven results. Most recently, Mike was the VP and General Manager of Field Operations at Bersin & Associates, a global analyst and consulting services firm focused on all areas of enterprise learning, talent management and talent acquisition. Tasked with leading the company’s global expansion, Mike led all sales operations worldwide. During Mike’s tenure, the company has grown into a multi-national firm, conducting business in over 45 countries with over 4,500 multi-national organizations. Mike started his career at MicroVideo Learning Systems in 1992, eventually holding a senior management position and leading all corporate sales before founding Dynamic Minds. Mike was CEO and Co-Founder of Dynamic Minds, a custom developer of software programs, working with clients like Goldman Sachs, Prentice Hall, McGraw Hill and Merrill Lynch. Also, Mike worked for Oddcast, a leading provider of customer experience and marketing solutions, where he held a senior management position leading the company into new markets across various industries. Mike also serves on the Advisory Board for Carbon Solutions America, an independent sustainability consulting and carbon management firm that specializes in the design and implementation of greenhouse reduction and sustainability plans as well as managing the generation of carbon and renewal energy and energy efficiency credits. Mike attended University of Phoenix, studying Business Administration and Finance. He has also completed executive training at the Chicago Graduate School of Business in Chicago, IL.