Congratulations to our 2025 winners!
The Transform 10: Meet the 2025 Winners
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.
Terah Lawyer
President CROP Organization
Coco Brown
Founder & CEO, The Athena Alliance
Keely Cat-Wells
Founder & CEO, Making Space
Mark Hyman
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Function Health
Sherry Rais
CEO, Enthea
Melanie Naranjo
Chief People Officer, Ethena
Sophia Harris
Founder & CEO, ODRG
Chandra Sanders
Founder, Heels N Hustle
Donald Knight
Group SVP, People & Culture,
Warner Bros. Discovery
Apple Musni
CHRO, REI
2025 Transform Category Award Winners
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.
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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.
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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.
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Power Pair: Executive Partnership of the Year
Celebrates the power of partnership to drive transformation. This pair exemplifies how strategic alignment between business and people operations drives positive outcomes for the business and its people.
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Team Builder: Connected Culture of the Year
Celebrates the company with the most thoughtful and effective model for creating a thriving distributed workforce.
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Inclusion Champion: DEI Initiative of the Year
Celebrates the company with the most impactful approach to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Industry Mobilizer: Inspiring Resources 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.
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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.
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How are nominations judged?
Each nomination is evaluated and scored by a panel of expert independent industry judges.
When are winners announced?
Winners will be announced in a community awards celebration on Tues, March 18th, at Transform 2025.
How are winners recognized?
We celebrate the winners onsite at Transform 2025 throughout the event, social media and more!
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.