BTS and Clients Win 72 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards

SAN FRANCISCO — BTS GROUP AB (publ) , a global leader in strategy implementation, and its clients won 72 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in 2026, the company’s highest total in recent years, surpassing the previous high of 64 set in 2024, including 46 gold, 16 silver, and 10 bronze. The awards recognize BTS’s most effective learning, talent, and leadership development programs, each built in close collaboration with a client.

Advantage Performance Group, a BTS company, also received a gold Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award.

“The pace of innovation is impressive across these 72 winning client projects,” said Jessica Skon, Chief Executive Officer at BTS, “each one helping to operationalize their company’s priorities while leveraging AI tools to take strategy made personal to the next level. We are very proud and grateful for the daily co-innovation with our clients.”

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A handful of client partnerships swept multiple categories this year: Ernst & Young (EY), a BTS client, earned four golds, three of them for its EY Oceania Better. Together program; Thai Stanley Electric’s New Generation Development program won three golds outright; and Boston Scientific took three golds, including one for its AME and ADE blended learning program.

“The HCM Excellence Awards have become the most recognized benchmark for excellence in human capital management because organizations know they are earned, not given. Every winning program has demonstrated measurable impact, innovation, and execution through one of the industry’s most rigorous evaluation processes. We are proud to recognize the organizations setting the standard for the future of work.” Mike Cooke, CEO, Brandon Hall Group™

The winning programs span categories ranging from Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Development Program to Best Learning Program Supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy . Find the full list of winners here .

Independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts, and executives evaluated every entry against four criteria:

AbbVie Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency AIS Ampol Limited AT&T Bank of Ayudhya PCL (Krungsri) Barry Callebaut BHIRAJ BURI GROUP (BBG) BHP Boston Scientific Bristol Myers Squibb Central Group Corient DKSH Ernst & Young (EY) First Abu Dhabi Bank GEA Group Givaudan IHH Healthcare Inizio Jerónimo Martins Lactalis Canada Inc. Limagrain Manulife Mondelēz International Mubadala Investment Company National Australia Bank Naturgy Energy Group S.A. PASHA Bank OJSC PETRONAS PPC Group Repsol Schreiber Foods SD Guthrie Berhad Singapore Exchange (SGX) PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology Tbk Takeda Pharma Telkomsel Thai Stanley Electric Public Company Limited TMBThanachart Bank (ttb)

Excellence Award winners will be honored at Brandon Hall Group’s HCM Excellence Conference on January 26-28, 2027, at the Hilton West Palm Beach in Florida.