VISIONARY ORGANISATIONS
Employer Brand of the Year
Recognition for companies that demonstrate a powerful, distinctive employer brand that attracts high-quality talent across markets.
Best Talent Attraction Strategy
For organisations reinventing sourcing, positioning, or outreach to attract niche, scarce, or future-critical talent.
Candidate Experience Innovation
Excellence in delivering frictionless, human-centric experiences across the hiring journey.
Onboarding Excellence
Award for effective, scalable onboarding programs that drive immediate engagement, clarity, and productivity.
Learning Strategy of the Year
Recognises organisations with integrated, business-aligned learning frameworks.
Skills Transformation (AI/Digital/Future Skills)
Highlights organisations investing in upskilling/reskilling for AI, digital roles, and emerging capabilities.
Internal Talent Marketplace / Mobility
For companies enabling career movement, opportunity visibility, and internal gig/flexible work models.
Leadership Development Excellence
Celebrates leadership programs producing measurable shifts in readiness, behavior, and performance.
Learning Experience Innovation
Recognises design-led, personalised LX models (learning journeys, microlearning, gamification) enabling high engagement.
Capability Academy of the Year
For organisations building structured academies (tech academy, leadership academy, sales academy, etc.) that align with business goal.
Skills-Based Organisation Enablement
Celebrates organisations implementing skills taxonomies, skill-based work design, and future role architectures.
AI-Powered Learning Systems
Rewards organisations using AI (adaptive learning, skills inference, learning recommendations) to deepen capability building.
The One Workforce Award
The One Workforce Award recognizes organizations that have successfully brought together a highly distributed, multi- country workforce into one connected, engaged, and aligned community using a unified HR platform.
Culture of the Year
Acknowledges organisations with values-led, high-performance, future-ready cultural systems.
Employee Well-being & Resilience
Recognises holistic programs supporting mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
High-Trust Workplace Systems
Celebrates environments built on trust, transparency, and empowerment.
Total Rewards Strategy of the Year
Recognises organisations with integrated, future-ready rewards frameworks balancing pay, benefits, recognition, career, and well-being
AI in HR Transformation
For organisations applying AI in hiring, learning, employee experience, or operations to deliver measurable impact.
HR Tech Implementation of the Year
Recognises successful tech rollouts that transform HR workflows or workforce outcomes.
Talent Analytics & Insights
Celebrates data-driven practices that improve decision-making and business impact.
Digital HR Experience Innovation
For companies elevating employee journeys through digital touchpoints.
Workforce Automation & Productivity Systems
Use of automation (RPA, workflow engines, bots) to enhance HR and workforce productivity.
People Platforms & Ecosystem Architecture
Unified people platforms integrating HR tech, work tech, learning systems, and talent operations.
EX Automation & Personalisation
Hyper-personalised EX interventions using AI nudges, recommendations, chatbots, and predictive insights.
DEI Innovation
Recognises pioneering work in designing inclusive systems, policies, and cultures.
Social Impact Through Talent
For initiatives connecting talent development with community upliftment, employability, or societal impact.
ESG + Talent Alignment
Highlights organisations integrating people strategy into ESG frameworks & governance.
India Talent Advancement (National Contribution)
For organisations driving large-scale talent development that supports India’s economic & skills agenda.
Evaluation Criteria
1
Innovation& Originality
2
Impact &Effectiveness
3
User experience& Accessibility
4
Genuineness& Intent
5
StakeholderEngagement
6
Learningsfrom failures
7
Consistencyin efforts
REVOLUTIONARY TEAMS
Talent Acquisition Team
Recognizes a team that has demonstrated exceptional expertise in attracting, sourcing, and hiring top talent.
Learning & Development Team
Honors a team that has excelled in creating and delivering transformative learning and development programs. This category highlights their commitment to upskilling, reskilling, and fostering a culture of continuous learning to drive individual and organizational growth.
Employee Experience Team
This award honors the Employee Experience (EX) team that has redefined the way organizations foster a positive, inclusive, and engaging workplace environment.
DEI Team
Celebrates a team's success in fostering an inclusive workplace culture, addressing systemic inequities, and enhancing employee belonging and engagement.
HR Ops Team
Recognizing the HR operations team that has set a benchmark in delivering efficient, scalable, and employee-focused operational excellence.
Total Rewards Team
Honors a team that has excelled in designing and implementing comprehensive total rewards strategies. This category highlights their innovative approaches to compensation, benefits, and recognition programs that attract, engage, and retain top talent.
Evaluation Criteria
1
Innovation& Creativity
2
Collaboration &Collaboration
3
Leadership &development
4
Sustainability &long term value
5
Impact &result
6
DEI7
Trust &Transparency
INDIVIDUAL ICONS
People Leader of the Year
Honoring an HR leader who has demonstrated extraordinary leadership, strategic foresight, and innovation in driving people transformation.
Lifetime Achievement
This prestigious recognition honors an individual whose remarkable career has left an indelible mark on the HR and business landscape.
People Matters CEO of the Year
This award celebrates a visionary CEO who has championed people-centric strategies and fostered an organizational culture that drives innovation, inclusivity, and sustainable growth.
Evaluation Criteria
1
Innovation& Creativity
2
VisionaryThinking
3
Team empowerment& development
4
Changeleadership
5
Collaboration& influence
6
Agility& Adaptability
7
Impact onorganisational culture