
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.
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Human Resources Award Winners - NA
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Employee Experience Excellence Award
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Candidate Experience Excellence Award
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HR Innovation Award
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CHRO of the Year Award
Human Resources Award Winners - LAD
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Employee Experience Excellence Award
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HR Innovation Award
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CHRO of the Year Award
Human Resources Award Winners - EMEA
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Employee Experience Excellence Award
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Candidate Experience Excellence Award
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HR Innovation Award
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CHRO of the Year Award
Human Resources Award Winners - JAPAC
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Employee Experience Excellence Award
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Candidate Experience Excellence Award
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HR Innovation Award
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CHRO of the Year Award
Employee Experience Excellence Award - NA
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.
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Winner | Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
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Finalists
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Guiding candidates through the hiring journey
Candidate Experience Excellence Award - NA
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.
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Winner | Estes Express Lines
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Finalists
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Remarkable visions for the future of work
HR Innovation Award - NA
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.
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Winner | Oklahoma State University Medical Center
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Finalists
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Transformative HR practices and strategies
CHRO of the Year Award - NA
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.
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Winner | Caesars Entertainment
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CHRO: Stephanie Lepori
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Finalists
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Thoughtful design of the employee experience
Employee Experience Excellence Award - LAD
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.
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Winner | Nubank
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Finalists
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Remarkable visions for the future of work
HR Innovation Award - LAD
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.
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Winner | Grupo Industrial Peñoles
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Finalists
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Transformative HR practices and strategies
CHRO of the Year Award - LAD
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.
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Winner | Grupo Arcor SAIC
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CHRO: Donald Houlin
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Thoughtful design of the employee experience
Employee Experience Excellence Award - EMEA
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.
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Winner | Nokia
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Finalists
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Guiding candidates through the hiring journey
Candidate Experience Excellence Award - EMEA
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.
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Winner | Ministry of Defence
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Finalists
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Remarkable visions for the future of work
HR Innovation Award - EMEA
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.
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Winner | Emirates NBD
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Finalists
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Transformative HR practices and strategies
CHRO of the Year Award - EMEA
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.
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Winner | DHL Group
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CHRO: Thomas Ogilvie
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Finalists
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Thoughtful design of the employee experience
Employee Experience Excellence Award - JAPAC
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.
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Winner | Access World Logistics (Singapore) Pte Ltd
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Finalists
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Guiding candidates through the hiring journey
Candidate Experience Excellence Award - JAPAC
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.
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Winner | Virtuos Limited
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Remarkable visions for the future of work
HR Innovation Award - JAPAC
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.
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Winner | Colonial First State
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Finalists
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Transformative HR practices and strategies
CHRO of the Year Award - JAPAC
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.
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Winner | FUJIFILM Business Innovation Asia Pacific
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CHRO: Gwen Mei Ping Wong
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Finalists
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Human Resources Awards 2024 Winners
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The Employee Experience Award
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The Candidate Experience Award
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The HR Innovation Award
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The People-First Leadership Award
Thoughtful Employee Experience Design
The Employee Experience Award
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.
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Winner | Providence
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Guiding Candidates Hiring Journey
The Candidate Experience Award
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.
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Winner | Kroger
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Remarkable Vision for the Future of Work
The HR Innovation Award
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.
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Winner | Northwell Health
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Helping Managers Put Employees First
The People-First Leadership Award
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.
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Winner | The Wendy’s Company
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Finalists
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Human Resources Awards 2023 Winners
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The Cultivate Award
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The Engage Award
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The Innovate Award
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The Shift Award
For thoughtful focus and design of the employee experience
The Cultivate Award
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
The Engage Award
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
The Innovate Award
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
The Shift Award
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
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The Adapt Award
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The Cultivate Award
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The Engage Award
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The Game Changer Award
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The Innovate Award
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The Shift Award
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The Thrive Award
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The Visionary Award
Given for creating a flexible and agile work environment
The Adapt Award
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 Cultivate Award
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
The Engage Award
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
The Game Changer Award
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 Innovate Award
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
The Shift Award
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
The Thrive Award
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 Visionary Award
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