2023 HRO Today Association Awards

Congratulations to our 2023 Award Winners in the APAC, EMEA and North America Regions

The awards are presented in three regions: APAC, EMEA, and North America. Read on to see who was honored in 2023

Click here to access the Press Release announcing the North America and EMEA winners

Click here to access the Press Release announcing the APAC winners

The HRO Today Association Awards is an annual recognition program that exemplifies the essential work that HR professionals do every day and provides people, teams, partners, and companies an opportunity to share best practices and successes so colleagues, and the industry, can benefit from their experience.

APAC Region – Winners

The 2023 HRO Today Association Awards for the APAC region were presented at a special ceremony in conjunction with the APAC Board of Advisors meeting on December 13. 

Team Categories
  • Best In Class: Candidate Experience – TTEC
  • Best in Class: Employee Experience – N-able
  • Best in Class: Innovation (non-technical) – NielsenIQ
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Excellence – Kyndryl
  • HR Team of the Year – SolarWinds
  • Recruitment Team of the Year – Infosys
Individual Categories
  • HR Excellence – Priyanka Taikar. Chief People Officer, VTEST Software Pvt. Ltd.
  • HR Leadership: Information Technology – Nahla Azmi, Head of Talent Acquisition, Asia Pacific, Infosys
  • HR Leadership: Financial Services – Ardhi Lufti Siregar, Head of Human Resources, Manulife Business Processing Services, Inc.
  • HR Leadership: Education – Dr. Nikhat M. Hamza, Director, Human Resources, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research (DU)

Finalists: REACH Leadership Experience Platform ● Dr. Aquil Busrai ● Ronnika Khanna ● Krishna Kumari ● Vicky Wang


EMEA Region- Winners

The 2023 HRO Today Association Awards for the EMEA region were presented a the HRO Today Association Conference on December 1. Congratulations to our winners!

Team Categories
  • Best in Class: Candidate Experience – Direct Line Group
  • Best in Class: Employee Experience – Capgemini Portugal
  • Best in Class: Innovation (non-technical) – Practitioner – NielsenIQ
  • Best in Class: Innovation (non-technical) – Provider – Capgemini
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Excellence – TTEC
  • HR Team of the Year – Helmes AS
  • Recruitment Team of the Year – Red Sea Global
Individual Categories
  • HR Excellence: Healthcare/Pharma – Hawanem Omara, Compensation & Benefits Supervisor, Parkville Pharmaceuticals Egypt Limited
  • HR Excellence: Research & Development – Besa Kapisha Muthuri, CHRO Executive Advisor: People Operations, Agricultural Research Council (ARC)
  • HR Leadership: Hospitality – Oli Fletcher, Talent Acquisition and Onboarding Executive Director, Red Sea Global
  • HR Leadership: Healthcare/Pharma – Mohamed Othman Zidan, Talent Acquisition Manager, GMS – YMS

Finalists: AgileOne ● Commercial International Bank ●  Kyivstar Ukraine ● Kyndryl ● Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Qatar ● Marriott Vacations Worldwide ● N-able ● Resource Solutions ● Retal Urban Development ● Solar Winds ● Viridium Group


NORTH AMERICA Region – Winners

The 2023 HRO Today Association Awards for the North America region were presented at the HRO Today Association Conference on December 1. Congratulations to our winners!

Team Categories
  • Best in Class: Candidate Experience – RingCentral
  • Best in Class: Employee Experience – Financial Services – Seacoast Bank
  • Best in Class: Employee Experience – Healthcare – VITAS Healthcare
  • Best in Class: Innovation (non-technical) – Magnit
  • Best in Class: HR Technology – Enterprise– Quest Diagnostics
  • Best in Class: HR Technology – Mid-Market – Rangam
  • Business Partnership Excellence – Honeywell and Korn Ferry
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Excellence: Practitioner – Memorial Healthcare System
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Excellence: Provider – Page Outsourcing
  • HR Team of the Year: Enterprise – Siemens Energy
  • HR Team of the Year: Mid-Market – GNC
  • HR Team of the Year: Provider – Pontoon Solutions
  • Recruitment Team of the Year: Healthcare – Cleveland Clinic
  • Recruitment Team of the Year: Hospitality – Marriott Vacations Worldwide
  • Recruitment Team of the Year: Provider – PeopleScout
Individual Categories
  • HR Excellence: Healthcare – Jaclyn Greenberg, Team Leader of Talent Acquisition, KenCrest
  • HR Excellence: Higher Education – Mike Sorensen, Chief Collaborator Experience Officer, Nightingale Education Group
  • HR Excellence: Media & Entertainment – Chris Alwell, Employee Well-being Experience Program Manager, TikTok
  • HR Excellence: Biotech – Lorenzo Claridy, Vice President, HR Business Leader, GSK
  • HR Excellence: Events & Hospitality – Tracey Jenkins, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Sodexo Live!
  • HR Leadership: Consumer Goods – Todd Miller, Vice President, Organizational Capability, Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.
  • HR Leadership: Healthcare/Pharma – Maggie Stavrianidis, Vice President, Compensation, Benefits & HRIS, WCG Clinical
  • HR Leadership: Financial Services – Donna Verdi, Head of Talent and Development, America, APAC, India, Barclays
  • Member Leadership – Brian Bules, Founder and CEO, Breakthrough Business Strategies and Solutions (BBSS)

Finalists: AbsoluteCare ● AgileOne ● Alight Solutions ● Banc of California ● Blanchard ● Blue Diamond Growers ● Braeburn ● Canadian Tire Corporation ● CBW Bank ● Clarion Events – North America ● CloudMD Software & Services, Inc ● CoStar Group ● Current Lighting ● DailyPay ● Earnin ● Fountain ● Humantelligence ● KenCrest ● KPMG ● KraftHeinz ● Kudos® ● Kyndryl ● Mount Nittany Health ● N-able ● NielsenIQ ● Nightingale Education Group ● Oak Valley Health ● RemoteBridge ● Revature ● SDI ● Sevenstep ● SkillGigs, Inc. ● SolarWinds ● Sonepar USA ● St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ● SucceesSmart ● Ten Thousand Coffees (10KC) ● The Clearing House ● The Shyft Group ● The Travel Corporation ● TransForm Shared Service Organization ● TTEC ● Vetty ● WorkTango ● Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer, PhD ● J. Keith Brown ● Alysha Campbell ● Vanesa Cotlar ● Deidre D’Asaro ● Karen Feeney ● Lindsey Garito ● Dr. Jason Hernandez ● Kiersten Kanaley ● Derkia Peralta ● Sean Pieris ● Ashley Stipes ● Neyda Urias ● Alisha Waring ● Dr. Lawrence Weekly ● Carla Yudhisthu

Award Nomination Deadlines and Presentation Dates

Nomination deadline: CLOSED (previously extended to October 16, 2023)

North America and EMEA awards presented: December 1, 2023; 11:00AM – 1:00PM ET as part of the HRO Today Association Conference and Awards Program (virtual).

APAC awards presented:  December 13, 2023; 8:00PM – 9:00PM ET as part of the HRO Today Association APAC Board of Advisors Q4 Meeting and Awards Program (virtual).

“Recipes for Success”

“While it is wise to learn from experience, it is even wiser to learn from the experience of others.”

Information from award nominations submitted may be selected for inclusion in HRO Today Association’s “Recipes for Success” program.  Best practices and concepts are published as “Recipes for Success” and provide our members with the ingredients to learn new ideas and concepts and gain valuable insights into how others have achieved success.  Therefore, this program provides not only an opportunity for recognition of winners in a specific category, but for all awards finalists the chance to share their “recipes for success” and be showcased as a Leader of Distinction, within our awards program and the industry!

Click here to access the library of Recipes for Success livestream recordings. (Members-only)

Questions?

For questions about the award process and/or assistance needed in completing an awards nomination, please contact Steve.Farace@sharedxpertise.com.