Honoring the 2020 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award-Winners: Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Development Program; Best Advance in Senior Manager Development; Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring; Best Advance in Leadership Development Competency Models; Best Advance in Leadership Development; Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development; Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women; Best Advance in Executive Development

Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Development Program

Inner and Beyond Leadership Program Builds Talent Pool, Business Results at Danone EDP Turkey: Inner & Beyond is a tailor-made individual and leadership development program designed with @intersections to meet the developmental needs of 21 employees from Danone EDP Turkey’s eight different functions and to support business needs. By completing Inner & Beyond, employees are now ready to take risks more than before to reach sustainable business results. Danone EDP Turkey and @intersections are honored with a Gold Award for Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Development Program in the 2020 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards. 

We also honor these other award winning organizations in this category: ?What If!, part of Accenture, AllenComm, BASF Corporation, Bendelta, BlackBerry, BTS Group, CEMEX, Cox Communications, Dell Technologies, Deloitte Consulting LLP, ExecOnline, GP Strategies, GP Strategies, Merck, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Purolator, Skillsoft, Texas Instruments, Verizon 

Best Advance in Senior Manager Development

Grant Thornton’s Senior Manager Academy Provides Myriad Experiences, Personal InsightsGrant Thornton’s Senior Manager Academy (SMA) is a three-year career development academy that builds leadership skills by providing deliberate development experiences, exposure to senior leaders and executive-level responsibilities, and insight into one’s personal attributes and abilities. SMA launched its first class of 92 in October 2015. This year, SMA will reach approximately 225 learners from across the firm. Grant Thornton LLP was honored with a Gold Award for Best Advance in Senior Manager Development in the 2020 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.

We also honor these other award winning organizations in this category: BMO, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Johnson Controls International, PwC Ireland, The Oxford Group, U.S. Cellular, Victaulic 

Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring

Baptist Health’s Internal Coaching Develops Home-grown Leaders: The Baptist Health South Florida Internal Coaching Practice provides high-quality, cost-effective coaching for managers and above based on ICF’s core competencies. Its team of certified coaches have supported 100-plus leaders grow and develop since its inception through one-on-one and group coaching. Baptist Health South Florida was honored with a Silver Award for Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring in the 2020 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.

We also honor these other award winning organizations in this category: Robert Half, Cox Automotive, Tofaş Türk Otomobil Fabrikası A.Ş.

Best Advance in Leadership Development Competency Models

We honor these award winning organizations in this category: H+K, Verizon

Best Advance in Leadership Development

PG&E Uses Projects, Coaching, Social Learning to Teach Innovative Thinking to Its Supervisors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s the “Leading the Energy Network of Tomorrow” innovative leadership program is aligned with PG&E’s organizational goals and the learning needs of its supervisors, managers, superintendents, and new directors. The program is project-based, provides peer-to-peer coaching, includes social learning, teaches innovative thinking using the Design Thinking model, and employs behavior simulation assessments to measure behavior change and skills, a strengths-based 360-leader assessment and a team assessment. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) was honored with a Gold Award for Best Advance in Leadership Development in the 2020 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.

We also honor these award winning organizations in this category: ?What If!, part of Accenture, Acıbadem Healthcare Group, AIRBUS, Amcor Specialty Cartons, Anglo American Plc, Argo Group, Aurizon, Bendelta, BTS, Dell Technologies, Deloitte Consulting LLP, DTCC, Impact, Infopro Learning, K2C Consulting Group, KASIKORNBANK PCL, Landmark Group, NIIT, Petrol Ofisi, Purolator Inc., PwC Ireland, SABANCI Holding, SRL Consultancy, Türkiye Finans Participation Bank, TÜV SÜD America Inc.

Best Advance in Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development: Verizon’s Leadership Compass Measurement Reinforces Training’s Advantage on ROI By using a defined measurement approach and looking at participants’ business benefits three months, three months and 12 months post-training, Verizon was able to show exactly how much sales performance advantage was created by those attending its Leadership Compass training, and at the same time how much could be lost by not attending the training. Verizon was honored with a Gold Award for Best Advance In Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development in the 2019 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.

We also honor these award winning organizations in this category: Anglo American Plc, BTS, PETRONAS, Vivo Team Development, 

Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women 

FCA Women’s Leadership Experience Sees More Females Earn Promotions: The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) and Fiat Chrysler Automotive’s Women’s Leadership Experience is a nine-month career-development journey that addresses the needs of early-to-mid career women to develop the skills and experiences needed to energize their careers. Since the inception of this program, the retention rate for both 2018 and 2019 has been 92%. Fiat Chrysler Automotive (FCA) and the Center for Creative Leadership earned a Bronze Award for Best Advance in Leadership Development for Women in the 2020 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.

We also honor these award winning organizations in this category: Center for Creative Leadership, Mars, Inc., WNS Global Services

Best Advance in Executive Development 

Dell’s Executive Development Program Uses Blended Learning, Assessments to Boost New VPsDell Technologies’ Services and Digital Executive Development Program (ELP) prepares newly promoted Vice President’s to lead their complex organizations and become the next generation of leaders at Dell. Through in-person conferences, executive coaching, Hogan Leadership Assessments and virtual learning experiences, participants learn the lead at Dell. 95% believe the ELP provided skills to become a more effective leader at Dell. Dell Technologies was honored with a Silver Award for Best Advance in Executive Development in the 2020 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.

We also honor these award winning organizations in this category: ?What If!, part of Accenture, Dell Technologies

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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.