2025 Awards Categories

This category will be awarded to an organisation that are dedicated to creating a diverse, inclusive and tolerant workplace. Recognising an employer whose culture promotes trust, collaboration, fairness and growth through a D&I environment.

This category recognises the importance of employee engagement in today’s businesses. This award is for a HR strategy that has significantly improved employee engagement levels within the team or company.

Recognising employers who place employee wellbeing center stage within their organisation and have embedded a strong culture of health and wellness to support their colleagues. This award will go to the organisation that provides the most compelling evidence that their employee wellness programme not only works, but that has also created a clear and measurable return on investments in this area.

This award recognises an organisation that has implemented an innovative and sustainable leadership development strategy/programme that strengthens the skills and capabilities of current and future leaders.

With ever increasing adoption and investment in HR technologies, this award recognises the employer that has successfully embraced digital disruption to move HR forward.

his award recognises employers that have successfully delivered a major HR business transformation project. Applicants need to make demonstrable contributions to organisational performance and effective change management programmes.

This award recognises companies that have been truly innovative in supporting colleagues through a flexible working initiative. The award goes to the company that best caters to both in person and remote workers, supporting all employees and aligning strategies with the company culture.

This award aims to reward an HR team for their innovative approach to organisational design, process, structure or strategy, that is non-technology focused.

This award aims to recognise a non-technology focused L&D initiative that brings fresh ideas to the company and positively & measurably improve L&D programmes. The winning organisation needs to highlight organisational benefits by directly linking the learning needs of people to the business needs of the organisation.

The awarded organisation will have demonstrated excellence and innovation in attracting, recruiting and onboarding employees. The panel will be looking for the employer who has excelled in creating an effective recruitment and onboarding atmosphere that is conductive to employees’ smooth introduction to the company.

This award is dedicated to the companies promoting reward and recognition across their business through an HR strategy. Nominees will have to demonstrate increased levels of engagement and performance as a direct result of implementing the strategy.

This award recognises companies that are doing their part for the surrounding community or environment, through implementation of a social impact initiative. Companies will have to demonstrate the positive impact that the initiative has on both employees and the chosen cause throughout the pandemic.

This award honours the organisation which has developed a very well-integrated strategy to recruit, manage, develop and retain talent with the aim of improving business value and ability to measure the success of implementation and outcome.

The award will recognise an organisation that has developed and implemented a successful women development and leadership programme. The winning organisation needs to highlight how the programme supports behaviour change, creates lasting impact and builds an inclusive culture.

A senior CHRO who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and business best-practice in developing effective HR strategies which have significantly benefited their business throughout the last year.

This award honours the leading employer that can demonstrate superior people development strategies resulting in a productive, engaged and motivated workforce becoming an employer of choice.

An award to recognise the collective effort of HR teams within the business. The team should be able to demonstrate their impact on the HR function as well as the business overall.

An emerging talent in the field of HR who shows high potential for future achievement in the profession. Nominees can be any age but should have been in the HR profession for a total of 5 years or less.