Brandon Hall Group Launches Excellence in Practice With 37 Award-Winning AI Implementations

New Institute collection gives workforce leaders access to the strategies, implementation approaches and measurable results behind HCM Excellence Award-winning programs

Boca Raton, FL, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- There is no shortage of conversation about what artificial intelligence could do for the workforce. What leaders need now is evidence of what organizations are actually doing, how they are doing it and what others can learn from their experience.

Brandon Hall Group, the Workforce Excellence Intelligence company, today announced the launch of Excellence in Practice, a new collection available through the Brandon Hall Group Institute that gives workforce leaders an inside look at the strategies and practices behind award-winning workforce initiatives.

The first release features 37 Excellence in Practice assets focused on AI, developed from winning submissions to the 2026 HCM Excellence Awards and made available with permission from the participating organizations.

These are more than success stories.

Organizations participating in the HCM Excellence Awards provide Brandon Hall Group with detailed information about their initiatives, including the business need and strategy, program design, implementation and delivery, measurable benefits, how the program was received and plans for the future.

Excellence in Practice turns that depth of information into practical intelligence that other workforce leaders can learn from and apply.

“Organizations don’t need more AI hype. They need to understand what successful implementation actually looks like,” said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group. “Excellence in Practice gives leaders visibility into the decisions, approaches and results behind real initiatives. They can see what another organization accomplished, understand how they did it and use those lessons to accelerate their own work.”

37 Organizations and Partnerships Putting AI Into Practice

The inaugural collection focuses on one of the most consequential challenges facing workforce leaders today: moving AI beyond experimentation and into meaningful workforce and business applications.

The 37 Excellence in Practice assets showcase award-winning initiatives across eight HCM Excellence Awards categories:

• Best Use of AI for Learning
• Best Use of AI for Leadership Development
• Best Use of AI for Talent Acquisition
• Best Use of AI for Talent Management
• Best Use of AI for Human Resources
• Best Use of AI for Sales Performance
• Best Use of AI for Business Impact
• Best Mentoring Using AI

Together, the collection provides hard evidence of how organizations are applying AI today, while giving leaders access to the thinking and execution behind the results.

Readers can examine the challenge an organization was addressing, the strategy it developed, how the solution was designed and implemented, the measurable impact it produced and what the organization learned along the way.

Leaders get the details behind the results, giving them proven approaches they can benchmark against and adapt to their own organizations.

That makes Excellence in Practice a resource leaders can use to benchmark their own thinking, identify proven approaches and inform the design and implementation of their own workforce initiatives.

37 Today. More Every Week.

The AI collection is only the beginning.

Brandon Hall Group will release additional Excellence in Practice assets in the Institute each week, expanding the collection across Learning and Development, Leadership Development, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Future of Work and other areas of workforce excellence.

For more than 30 years, the HCM Excellence Awards have given Brandon Hall Group a front-row seat to the strategies and practices driving exceptional workforce performance. Excellence in Practice extends the value of that intelligence by making approved examples available to Institute clients in a format designed for learning, benchmarking and application.

“Every year, organizations share an extraordinary amount of detail with us about the programs they have built and the results they have achieved,” Cooke said. “Excellence in Practice allows us to take that intelligence further. With permission from the organizations involved, we can help other leaders learn from their experience and put those lessons to work.”

See the strategy. Understand the implementation. Apply the lessons.

About Brandon Hall Group™

Brandon Hall Group is the Workforce Excellence Intelligence company that organizations around the world, including Fortune 1000 enterprises, turn to for research, proven best practices, benchmarking and guidance on driving measurable results through human capital excellence.

For more than 30 years, we have studied what separates exceptional workforce practices from the rest. We combine independent research, intelligence from award-winning organizations, benchmarking, strategic advisory and the collective experience of a global executive community to help CHROs, CLOs and workforce leaders make better decisions with greater confidence.

David Forry
Brandon Hall Group
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