Brandon Hall Group Announces Excellence Award Winners in Learning, HR and Talent Management, and Sales Enablement

Recipients will be Honored in January at HCM Excellence Conference 2015, where Selected Award Winners will also be Featured Presenters

Delray Beach, FL – September 10, 2014 – Brandon Hall Group, the pre-eminent HCM research and analyst organization focused on Learning and Development, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, and Workforce Management, announced the winners of the 2014 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards yesterday.

The announcement of winners in more than 50 categories was made in a live webcast by Brandon Hall Group senior leadership: CEO Mike Cooke, COO Rachel Cooke, and VP of Corporate and Product Development Claude Werder.

Now in its 20th year, the awards program today recognized Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners. For the complete list, please visit our winners page: http://go.brandonhall.com/past_award_winners

Winners of the coveted Excellence Awards will also be honored at the HCM Excellence Conference, Jan. 28-30, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Winners of the 2014 Excellence in Technology Awards, which accepts entries through Sept. 12, will also be announced and honored at the conference. (http://go.brandonhall.com/excellence_in_technology)

The HCM Excellence Conference (http://go.brandonhall.com/excellence_conference_home) will feature this year’s award winners, who will join Brandon Hall Group’s team of world-class analysts in sharing exclusive research laced with real-life success stories that achieved measurable business results. For more information on the HCM Excellence Conference and to register for this insightful event, visit our Conference Page.

“I’m honored to recognize this group of elite organizations with phenomenal programs across HCM functions.  The winners truly exemplified excellence around the critical business dimensions across the award categories, including a high standard of performance in their organization and demonstrated clear, measurable business results through these innovative programs,” said Rachel Cooke, COO of Brandon Hall Group.

“Our company is proud to receive submissions from organizations all over the world that have demonstrated major successes across their HCM business areas,” said Brandon Hall Group CEO Mike Cooke. “The beauty of our new HCM Excellence Conference is that some of these elite executives will now be able to share lessons learned through panel discussions, Q&A discussions, executive roundtables and peer-to-peer networking. We are delighted to be able to share the winners’ insights and case studies with a larger circle of colleagues.”

Selected award-winning submissions from this year’s Excellence Awards Program will be available to Brandon Hall Group members in the coming weeks.  For details on a Brandon Hall Group Membership or to learn more about our Awards Program, visit us at www.brandonhall.com or contact Mike Cooke at (561)865-5017 or [email protected].

About Brandon Hall Group

Brandon Hall Group is a HCM research and advisory services firm that provides insights around key performance areas, including Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition and Workforce Management.

With more than 10,000 clients globally and 20 years of delivering world-class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall Group is focused on developing research that drives performance in emerging and large organizations, and provides strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.

At the core of our offerings is a Membership Program that combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and analysts. The Membership Program offers insights and best practices to enable executives and practitioners to make the right decisions about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst advisory services which aim to put the research into action in a way that is practical and efficient.

To learn more about Brandon Hall Group, please call us at (561) 865-5017 or email us at [email protected].

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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.