Human Resources Awards Past Winners

Previously called the Oracle HR Heroes Awards, the program highlighted industry trailblazers who delivered tangible value to their organizations in innovative ways of using Oracle HCM Cloud solutions. Award categories span human resources, talent management, payroll, and workforce management.

Nominations for the 2026 Customer Awards are now open

Human Resources Award Winners - NA

  • Employee Experience Excellence Award

    Winner: Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
  • Candidate Experience Excellence Award

    Winner: Estes Express Lines
  • HR Innovation Award

    Service Partners: Alithya
    Winner: Oklahoma State University Medical Center
  • CHRO of the Year Award

    CHRO: Stephanie Lepori
    Winner: Caesars Entertainment

Human Resources Award Winners - LAD

  • Employee Experience Excellence Award

    Winner: Nubank
  • HR Innovation Award

    Winner: Grupo Industrial Peñoles
  • CHRO of the Year Award

    CHRO: Donald Houlin
    Winner: Grupo Arcor SAIC

Human Resources Award Winners - EMEA

  • Employee Experience Excellence Award

    Service Partners: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
    Winner: Nokia
  • Candidate Experience Excellence Award

    Service Partners: Capgemini Belgium
    Winner: Ministry of Defence
  • HR Innovation Award

    Winner: Emirates NBD
  • CHRO of the Year Award

    CHRO: Thomas Ogilvie
    Service Partners: Accenture
    Winner: DHL Group

Human Resources Award Winners - JAPAC

  • Employee Experience Excellence Award

    Winner: Access World Logistics (Singapore) Pte Ltd
  • Candidate Experience Excellence Award

    Winner: Virtuos Limited
  • HR Innovation Award

    Winner: Colonial First State
  • CHRO of the Year Award

    CHRO: Gwen Mei Ping Wong
    Winner: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Asia Pacific

This award celebrates a human resources team that helps make their work environment a better place to be, delivering an employee experience that helps people thrive within their roles and build rewarding careers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma


  • Finalists

Guiding candidates through the hiring journey

This award celebrates a human resources team that goes above and beyond in delivering a meaningful and engaging job application, interview, and onboarding process for potential hires. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Estes Express Lines


  • Finalists

Remarkable visions for the future of work

This award celebrates the innovative work of human resources teams. Did you come up with a creative program to engage employees, boost productivity, or find and court talented job candidates? Did you apply data analytics in a novel way to help solve a pressing HR issue? Recognize and celebrate your team’s ingenuity and passion. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Oklahoma State University Medical Center


  • Finalists

Transformative HR practices and strategies

This award celebrates a visionary leader who is delivering outstanding performance based on your company’s definition of HR success. Whether it’s in recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement, culture change, or some other area, inspire other CHROs with your vision for HR performance.

  • Winner | Caesars Entertainment


  • Finalists

Thoughtful design of the employee experience

This award celebrates a human resources team that helps make their work environment a better place to be, delivering an employee experience that helps people thrive within their roles and build rewarding careers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Nubank


  • Finalists

Remarkable visions for the future of work

This award celebrates the innovative work of human resources teams. Did you come up with a creative program to engage employees, boost productivity, or find and court talented job candidates? Did you apply data analytics in a novel way to help solve a pressing HR issue? Recognize and celebrate your team’s ingenuity and passion. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Grupo Industrial Peñoles


  • Finalists

Transformative HR practices and strategies

This award celebrates a visionary leader who is delivering outstanding performance based on your company’s definition of HR success. Whether it’s in recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement, culture change, or some other area, inspire other CHROs with your vision for HR performance.

  • Winner | Grupo Arcor SAIC

Thoughtful design of the employee experience

This award celebrates a human resources team that helps make their work environment a better place to be, delivering an employee experience that helps people thrive within their roles and build rewarding careers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Nokia


  • Finalists

Guiding candidates through the hiring journey

This award celebrates a human resources team that goes above and beyond in delivering a meaningful and engaging job application, interview, and onboarding process for potential hires. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Ministry of Defence


  • Finalists

Remarkable visions for the future of work

This award celebrates the innovative work of human resources teams. Did you come up with a creative program to engage employees, boost productivity, or find and court talented job candidates? Did you apply data analytics in a novel way to help solve a pressing HR issue? Recognize and celebrate your team’s ingenuity and passion. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Emirates NBD


  • Finalists

Transformative HR practices and strategies

This award celebrates a visionary leader who is delivering outstanding performance based on your company’s definition of HR success. Whether it’s in recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement, culture change, or some other area, inspire other CHROs with your vision for HR performance.

  • Winner | DHL Group


  • Finalists

Thoughtful design of the employee experience

This award celebrates a human resources team that helps make their work environment a better place to be, delivering an employee experience that helps people thrive within their roles and build rewarding careers. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Access World Logistics (Singapore) Pte Ltd


  • Finalists

Guiding candidates through the hiring journey

This award celebrates a human resources team that goes above and beyond in delivering a meaningful and engaging job application, interview, and onboarding process for potential hires. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Virtuos Limited

Remarkable visions for the future of work

This award celebrates the innovative work of human resources teams. Did you come up with a creative program to engage employees, boost productivity, or find and court talented job candidates? Did you apply data analytics in a novel way to help solve a pressing HR issue? Recognize and celebrate your team’s ingenuity and passion. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM suite.

  • Winner | Colonial First State


  • Finalists

Transformative HR practices and strategies

This award celebrates a visionary leader who is delivering outstanding performance based on your company’s definition of HR success. Whether it’s in recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement, culture change, or some other area, inspire other CHROs with your vision for HR performance.

  • Winner | FUJIFILM Business Innovation Asia Pacific


  • Finalists

Human Resources Awards 2024 Winners

  • The Employee Experience Award

    Winner: Providence
  • The Candidate Experience Award

    Service Partner: Deloitte
    Winner: Kroger
  • The HR Innovation Award

    Service Partner: Occamonics
    Winner: Northwell Health
  • The People-First Leadership Award

    Service Partner: KPMG
    Winner: The Wendy’s Company

Thoughtful Employee Experience Design

Employee experience is constantly evolving. Organizations in this category have demonstrated a commitment to understanding and engaging individuals through personalized, intuitive experiences. They are focused on growth—effectively upskilling and reskilling to adapt to change—and prioritizing total wellbeing and a connected culture of belonging.

  • Winner | Providence


  • Finalists

Guiding Candidates Hiring Journey

The ability to build strong candidate relationships sets organizations apart in a competitive labor market. Through innovative use of technology, these organizations are empowering their hiring teams, attracting candidates with the right skills, and successfully guiding them through an intuitive hiring and onboarding experience.

  • Winner | Kroger


  • Finalists

Remarkable Vision for the Future of Work

Emerging technology is playing an ever-increasing role in the daily success of the workforce. Organizations in this category are using the latest technology in innovative ways to enhance performance and outpace the competition. Through creative application of AI, intelligent user experience, machine learning, analytics, or a unified cloud platform, these organizations are leading the way toward a new world of work.

  • Winner | Northwell Health


  • Finalists

Helping Managers Put Employees First

Employee success depends on managers who lead with authenticity, transparency, and empathy. Organizations in this category are equipping their people managers with the right environment and tools to connect with their team members, understand their needs, recognize their accomplishments, and nurture their growth.

  • Winner | The Wendy’s Company


  • Finalists

Human Resources Awards 2023 Winners

  • The Cultivate Award

    Winner: Bank of Hawai‘i
  • The Engage Award

    Winner: Hearst Communications Inc
  • The Innovate Award

    Winner: Wood
  • The Shift Award

    Winner: United Nations Development Programme

For thoughtful focus and design of the employee experience

The employee experience is constantly evolving and is unique to each individual. Organizations in this category have demonstrated a commitment to understanding the entire journey of an employee’s career from the moment they are hired, through career growth, to the many life-changing events that happen along the way. Organizations in this category are providing an employee experience that is supportive, intuitive, focused on overall wellbeing, and tailored to each person at every phase of their career and life.

For creating a workplace with equal opportunities and a sense of belonging

Everyone deserves equal opportunity, pay, and a sense that they belong in the workplace. Organizations in this category have demonstrated that engaging people of different backgrounds and listening to their unique voices are core values and have created goals that are shared, discussed, and made visible to all. These HR teams are leading the way in achieving these goals by providing equal opportunities and attracting the best talent from a deep and diverse workforce.

For demonstrating a new and remarkable vision for the future of work

Looking out over the next 10 years, it’s clear that technology will play an ever-increasing role in the success of organizations and the daily experience of the workforce. Organizations in this category are using the latest technology in innovative ways to enhance performance and outpace the competition. Through creative application of cloud technologies, AI, machine learning, automation, or analytics, these organizations are leading the way toward a new world of work where technology makes it possible for people to accomplish more than ever before.

For helping to accelerate a move to the modern HCM cloud

Organizations in this category have realized the need to replace legacy technology to help improve the lives of their employees and strengthen their business. Being able to quickly pivot to a unified and complete HCM system, these organizations have been able to more rapidly realize benefits like reduced complexity, increased visibility, and easier collaboration.

Human Resources Awards 2022 Winners

  • The Adapt Award

    Winner: Poste Italiane
  • The Cultivate Award

    Winner: Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
  • The Engage Award

    Winner: Fortive Corporation
  • The Game Changer Award

    Winner: Deloitte Consulting LLP
  • The Innovate Award

    Winner: Co-op
  • The Shift Award

    Winner: Nationwide Building Society
  • The Thrive Award

    Winner: Norwegian Refugee Council
  • The Visionary Award

    Winner: WorkForce Software

Given for creating a flexible and agile work environment

In today’s climate, the option for employees to have a choice in when and where they can work is a critical element for people and companies alike. Organizations in this category have created flexible options for work-life balance that allows their employees to be present at home while simultaneously being productive in the workplace. These organizations have adapted their workplace flexibility to ensure their employee’s long-term success.

Given for thoughtful focus and design of the employee experience

The employee experience is constantly evolving and is unique to each individual. Organizations in this category have demonstrated a commitment to understanding the entire journey of an employee’s career from the moment they are hired, through career growth, to the many life changing events that happen along the way. Organizations in this category are providing an employee experience that is supportive, intuitive, and tailored to each person at every phase of their career and life.

Given for creating a workplace with equal opportunities and a sense of belonging

Everyone deserves equal opportunity, pay, and a sense that they belong in the workplace. Organizations in this category have demonstrated that engaging people of different backgrounds, and listening to their unique voices are core values and have created goals that are shared, discussed and made visible to all. These HR teams are leading the way in achieving these goals by providing equal opportunities and attracting the best talent from a deep and diverse workforce.

Given for HCM Service Delivery partner of the year

Service Delivery partners in this category have changed the game for our customers by helping them pivot to a unified and complete HCM system. These partners have helped implement Oracle Cloud HCM allowing organizations to rapidly realize benefits like reduced complexity and increased visibility while improving their employee experience.

Given for demonstrating a new and remarkable vision for the future of work

The effects of the pandemic on businesses are still with us and will continue to resonate for years to come. The workplace changed dramatically in a short period of time and these HR teams are using technology to help their companies continue to evolve. Innovative organizations in this category are finding creative ways to help their organizations and people be resilient, flexible, and well-positioned for the future. They are changing the future of work with greater automation, productivity, and efficiency through the use of technology such as the Cloud, AI, and ML.

Given for helping to accelerate a move to the modern HCM cloud

Organizations in this category have realized the need to replace legacy technology to help improve the lives of their employees and strengthen their business. Being able to quickly pivot to a unified and complete HCM system, these organizations have been able to more rapidly realize benefits like reduced complexity, increased visibility, and easier collaboration.

Given for putting employee health, safety, and well-being first

People are at the center of the work done by HR. Organizations in this category are exceptionally focused on helping their people thrive in the workplace by designing enhanced safety protocols, providing access to mental health resources, and developing new tools to manage overall well-being.

Given for HCM ISV partner of the year

The workplace has changed dramatically in a short period of time and HR teams are using technology to help their companies continue to shift to meet employee needs. It takes a true visionary to help organizations and people be resilient, flexible, and well-positioned for the future. These ISV partners are changing the way customers work with greater automation, productivity, and efficiency through the use of technology such as the Cloud, AI, and ML. This award celebrates the most innovative solution that complemented Oracle Cloud HCM and transformed the customer experience