The gala dinner and awards ceremony for the 23rd annual HR Excellence Awards will take place on Tuesday 26 June at the prestigious London Hilton on Park Lane. Click here to book your tickets to the event now.
We received an incredible number of entries this year and the standard was high.
Our judging panel consisted of top HR directors from a diverse collection of public, private, and third sector organisations. Representing a range of industries and with years of executive experience between them, these judges know true excellence when they see it.
The entries that have made our shortlist impressed our judges with their HR innovation to solve business problems, championing value creation through the power of people. Congratulations to all our finalists:
Best HR team
Costain Group
Financial Times
Lancaster University
Nexus Infrastructure
oneSource
Penningtons Manches
Sesame Bankhall
Torus
Best HR strategy from overseas
Advanced Info Service
Dogus Holding
Pegasus Airlines
Turkcell
Best youth employment strategy
Keoghs
Kier
Medway Council
Mitchells & Butlers
Most effective recruitment strategy
Charles Taylor
Costain Group
CAS Behavioural Health
MTR Crossrail
St Mungo's
Office for Nuclear Regulation
Volkswagen Financial Services
Best learning and development strategy
Airbus
Greencore
Manning Gottlieb OMD
Servest
THB
Three
Toyota Financial Services
Vestel Electronics
West Dunbartonshire Council
Most innovative deployment of HR technology
Costain
EVO
GBG
Mitchells & Butlers
Purple Cubed
Wiltshire Council
Best talent management strategy
DPA Consulting
My Home Move
St Mungo's
Starling Bank
Most effective use of internal communications
Direct Line Group
Gatwick Airport
Northumbrian Water
Genus
University of Sheffield
Health and wellbeing award
Arconic Manufacturing
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Three
United Learning
Volkswagen Financial Services
Most effective benefits strategy
Burges Salmon
Tusker Direct
Best CSR strategy
Aviva
Personal Group
Microgaming
Leading transformation award
Aspen Healthcare
Balfour Beatty
Bidfood
Deutsche Bank
Fircroft College
GBG
Nomad Foods Europe
Outstanding employee engagement strategy
Kerry Foods
Mayer Brown International
Medway Council
Unipart
Wiltshire Council
Diversity and inclusion award
Burges Salmon
Costain
MTR Crossrail
Odeon Cinemas Group
Southbank Centre
St Mungo's
Surrey Police
HR future leader of the year
Alex Dobbie, BBC
Hessie Coleman, Starling Bank
Sarah Beal, United Learning
Lucy Woodward, United Learning
The HR Excellence Awards ceremony is renowned as the night in the HR calendar, attracting the UK’s most talented HR individuals, teams and companies. By attending the awards you will have the opportunity to network with more than 600 fellow HR professionals and learn about the strategies raising HR's profile.
