2025 Winners & Judges
2025 Winners
Practitioner Awards
Employee Experience
Leader of the Year
Martin Stubbs-Partridge, Internal Communications Officer, Scottish Funding Council
Employee Journey
Innovation (Gold)
TIAA, Tech Partnerships, Acceleration & Culture Transformation department
Vendor Awards
Most Innovative Workplace Productivity Solution (Gold)
NiCE
Most Innovative Workplace Productivity Solution (Silver)
ActivTrak
Excellence in Employee Intranet & Communication Platforms (Gold)
Simpplr
Excellence in Employee Intranet & Communication Platforms (Silver)
Sociabble
2025 Judges
Judges are volunteer practitioners, specialists, consultants and EX experts, recruited for their field expertise.
Alicia Turner
President, North Compass Solutions
Amy DeFilippo
HR and Recruiting Manager, CivicScience
Annette Franz
CEO, CX Journey
Brittany Arteaga
Senior Human Resources Manager, Ashley Furniture Industries
Catherine Brinkman
Vice President of Client Experience, Dale Carnegie Training — Center of Excellence NYC
Daniela Iancu
Learning & Leadership Development Specialist, IDEXX
Dennis Hill
Chairman & CEO, IHRIM
Diane August
Chief Learning Architect, Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Eryc Eyl
Real Culture Change
Ghazala Faruqui
Expert Project Manager, Finastra
Ingrid Wilson
Founder & Principal, GridFern Strategic HR
Jason Cherry
Director, IS Technology Services, Lexington Medical Center
Kymberly Garrett
Chief People & Diversity Officer, Children’s Bureau
Laurel Dzneladze
Digital Communications Platform Leader, LinkedIn
Lisa I. Perez
President, HBL Resources
Louis Gordon
Director of Analyst & Influencer Relations, HiBob
Marcos Lindley
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Martha Dzawanda
Senior Director, Digital Communications — Internal, Comcast
Maureen Boland
Instructional Designer, Scissortail
Michelle Kaltenbach
Customer Experience Manager, Internal Programs, NRG
Mohit Gupta
UX Manager, CDK Global
Nanci Gulley
HR Director, Get Air Management
Nirmal Parikh
Head of Digital, NWN Carousel
Rachel Happe
Founder & Digital Workplace Catalyst, Engaged Organizations
Rena Lewis
Founder & Chief Strategy Advisor, Signature Intentions
Richard Butler
Principal — Technology Business Analysis, AT&T
Rod Branch
CHRO, ARCXIS Builder Services
Sameer Ranjan
Chief Technology Officer, Catenate
Saumya Sanjeev
VP, DMI
Scott Williams
IT Director, City of Goldsboro
Shannon Ogborn
RecOps Consultant & Community Lead, Ashby
Sharath Dodda
IT Senior Engineering Manager, TD
Stephen Kohler
Founder & CEO, Audira Labs
Stephen Lynch
Senior Director, Consumer Experience, Novo Nordisk
Sukran Delan Calleja
People Operations Associate, Village Capital
Summer Issawi
Senior Learning Designer, MSU Federal Credit Union
Sunil Sharma
Senior Lead Software Engineer and Senior Solution Architect, Capital One
TaVonda Brown
Owner/Founder, God’s Loving Arms Tax Consulting Services
Todd Felton
Principal, StitchDX
Tosha Turner
HRBP, NaphCare
Yvonne Lal
Director, End User Computing Sales Specialist, Vmware