2024 Transform Awards
Award nominations are now closed.
Our annual awards program was created to honor the most forward-thinking organizations, people initiatives, and leaders of the year.
New for 2024
The Innovators:
Transformative Tech of the Year
Recognizes the companies with the most transformative tech-enabled solutions and products impacting the way we work and live.
The Transform 10
The Transform 10 recognizes the ten most inspirational executive leaders who are leading transformation across their areas of influence and moving the world of work forward. These are the people-centric, global changemakers challenging the status quo through business, venture, or entrepreneur leadership.
The Category Awards
Celebrating the most innovative programs and inspiring initiatives that positively impact workplaces, team cultures, and communities for the better. Are you proud of your company’s achievements? Apply now and tell us about them.
Team Builder: Connected Culture of the Year
Celebrates the company with the most thoughtful and effective model for creating a thriving distributed workforce.
Inclusion Champion: DEI Initiative of the Year
Celebrates the company with the most sustainable and impactful approach to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Difference Maker: Social Impact Initiative of the Year
Recognizes the company that exhibits passion for serving others, making a positive impact in the lives of their employees and local communities.
Space Pioneer: Workspace Design of the Year
Recognizes the company that provides an innovative workspace design to inspire productivity, collaboration, and creativity in both traditional office settings and coworking spaces.
People Activator: Employee Experience of the Year
Goes to the company with the most exciting approach to building an incredible employee experience to attract, retain, and grow their people.
Team Magnet: Talent Strategy of the Year
Recognizes the company with the most exciting and exceptional approach to recruiting, onboarding, and growing both internal and external talent.
Rewards Trailblazer: Total Rewards Strategy of the Year
Recognizes the company with the most forward-thinking approach to total rewards that includes a compensation, equity, benefits, and perks package that reflects the true value they place in their people.
Wellness Advocate: Wellbeing Program of the Year
Recognizes the company with the most holistic approach to supporting individual and family mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
People Accelerator: L&D Program of the Year
Celebrates the company with the most forward-thinking approach to building an incredible employee experience to attract, retain, and grow their people.
Mission Messenger: Employer Brand of the Year
Recognizes the employer that’s making a name for itself among job seekers, employees, and the general public as being a simply great company to work for.
Data Master: People Reporting & Insights of the Year
Recognizes the employer setting the bar for use of data, analytics, and insights to improve their people-strategy decision making.
Power Pair: Executive Partnership of the Year
Celebrates the power of partnership to lead business transformation. This pair exemplifies how strategic alignment between business operations and people operations drives positive outcomes for the business and its people.
Industry Mobilizer: Inspiring Resource of the Year
Recognizes the most inspiring and valued educational resource for the Transform community. A resource may be a blog, podcast, online community, email series, etc.
What are the Transform Awards?
Hear from past award winners and judges why the Transform Awards are so important, and the impact that recognition and celebration has on our community.
How are the nominations judged?
Each nomination, whether for the category awards or the Transform 10, will be evaluated and scored by a panel of expert judges.
When are the finalists announced?
Finalists will be announced early in February of 2024 in the weeks leading up to the Transform 2024 conference.
How will winners be recognized?
We will celebrate the finalists and winners on our social channels and highlight select winners at Transform 2024 through onstage recognition, signage, and more!