HRO Today Association Company/Team Award Nomination Form (North America 2025)

Nominate a team, either at your own company or another, that has made an inspirational impact on a product, group, organization, or even the HR industry. Nominating questions are divided between four relevant factors that allow us to effectively compare and evaluate nominees – EFFECTIVENESS, IMPACT, INNOVATION, and SUSTAINABILITY. You may submit nominations for one or multiple categories. Choose the award for which you are submitting a nomination below. If you would like to submit multiple nominations, please submit separate nomination forms. If you have any questions on submitting a nomination, please email Connor Feeney, Director of Membership Services, at Connor.Feeney@SharedXpertise.com.

Best in Class: Employee Experience

Tell us about your best talent management programs, showcase your employee experience success stories and key retention strategies to ensure job satisfaction and that make your company a great place to work!

HR Team of the Year

This award recognizes the HR Team that has excelled within their function and across the organization by partnering with key executives and stakeholders, employees, and/or HR services and technology partners.

Best in Class: HR Technology

Showcase your latest technology advancement, upgrade, or unique solution that uses or enables technology to work more efficiently and successfully on one or more areas of the Human Resource function. This can be a standalone private labeled technology developed for use within your company or a new technology that you’ve taken to market for the entire industry.

NextGen Talent Team of the Year

This award recognizes a talent acquisition team that has excelled within their function and across the organization by driving innovative hiring strategies and partnering with key leaders, employees, and talent solutions providers to deliver meaningful, measurable results.

Best in Class: Innovation (non-technical)

This award recognizes forward thinking, innovation, or a breakthrough idea, resulting in improved employee and/or customer satisfaction, better business performance, and/or an advancement for the industry.

Workplace Culture & Inclusion Excellence

This award recognizes a team advancing meaningful Inclusion and Belonging efforts with intention, authenticity, and measurable impact. Through inclusive hiring, talent development, or cultural transformation, this team is building a workplace where everyone can belong and succeed.

Business Partnership

A business partner or alliance can be crucial for businesses. Tell us about a business partnership between an organization and an HR services or technology provider and why it is successful. IMPORTANT! This is a dual award. If a nomination is chosen as a finalist, BOTH parties are expected to attend the ceremony and BOTH will be listed on the actual award.

Nominee Information

Details about the person being nominated.

Nominee/Team Name *

Nominee Company (if different from above)

Nominee Contact Full Name *

Nominee Contact Title *

Nominee Contact Email *

Nominee Contact Work Phone *

Your organization has operations in the following regions (check all that apply):

North America (Canada and U.S.)
Asia Pacific (APAC)
Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA)

Nominee Company's Industry

Nominee Company's Number of Staff Globally

Nominee Company's Annual Revenue Globally

Award Category – North America *

Best in Class: Employee Experience
Best in Class: HR Technology
Best in Class: Innovation (non-technical)
Business Partnership Excellence
HR Team of the Year
NextGen Talent Team of the Year
Workplace Culture & Inclusion Excellence

*To nominate for more than one award, please submit the form again.

1. SUMMARY: A brief summary of why the team/organization should be considered for this award. *

2. EFFECTIVENESS: List the major contributions, results and/or best practices that the team/organization has materialized as a result of their accomplishments. *

3. IMPACT: How does nominee in their efforts in this category contribute to the overall mission, strategic plan and/or brand of the organization as well as the impact it has had to employees? *

4. INNOVATION: Explain why the team/organization should be considered an industry leader in this category – what are they doing that other organizations are not? *

5. SUSTAINABILITY: How will they sustain the momentum to ensure continued success? What potential future opportunities have their actions created? *

Supporting Documentation: Please post any links to articles, whitepapers, speeches or other posted content support the nomination. Use box below to upload relevant files.

Supporting Documentation: Please upload any articles, whitepapers, speeches, or other published content to support the nomination. (See above for option to provide links to supporting documents)

Click or drag files to this area to upload. You can upload up to 5 files.

Nominator

Details of the person submiting the nomination.

Nominator Full Name *

Nominator Title *

Nominator Company *

Nominator Email *

Nominator Work Phone *

Please note:

All nominations become property of the HRO Today Association and may be published/referenced in HRO Today and supporting publications, social media, and the HRO Today and HRO Today Association websites.If you have concerns about your information being published in any of these venues, please contact Connor.Feeney@SharedXpertise.com for more information.

IMPORTANT!

Finalists or a representative are expected to attend the virtual award ceremony in their respective region, no exceptions: EMEA/North America on December 4, 2025, 11AM ET; and APAC TBD.

Please note the following: 1) Nominations are open to all, and anyone can be named a Leader of Distinction—our finalist honor. But to win, nominees must be active HRO Today Association members by December 4, when winners are announced at our Conference and Awards Program. 2) Due to a large number of submissions, only finalists will be contacted.