DDI Wins Two Golds and Silver in 2025 Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards®

Awards recognize the leadership development success of DDI clients, GE HealthCare and AtkinsRéalis

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- DDI, a global leadership company, and its clients won three coveted Brandon Hall Group™ awards for excellence in the Leadership Development program. This joint recognition includes two Gold awards for GE Healthcare, a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, and a Silver award for AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear company with offices around the world.

DDI and GE HealthCare won a Gold in the Best Leadership Development Program category for their entry, "Aspire Leadership Academy," and a Gold in the Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders category for their entry "Empower Leadership Academy" on August 14, 2025. DDI and AtkinsRéalis won a Silver in the Best Senior Manager Development Program category for their entry, "Senior Leadership Development Program." You can view the complete list of winners here: https://excellenceawards.brandonhall.com/winners/.

When GE HealthCare became an independent company, it faced a unique opportunity and challenge: To build its own leadership development function from the ground up while also establishing a distinct culture and identity.  To achieve this vision, GE HealthCare partnered with DDI to launch competency-based development aligned with its business drivers. As a result, 100% of program participants learned new knowledge and skills, and 98% will apply this learning on the job.

AtkinsRéalis was fresh off a series of transformative acquisitions. To thrive in its new structure, it needed to redefine its leadership culture and build a future-ready pipeline of senior leaders who could think strategically, collaborate globally, and drive change. AtkinsRéalis partnered with DDI to launch a global Senior Leadership Development Program centered around immersive simulation, coaching, and executive engagement. The outcome: 49% of participants have been promoted and lateral moves increased by 30%.

"What's impressive about GE HealthCare's and AtkinsRéalis' leadership development initiatives is that they were able to achieve measurable behavior change—strengthening their organizational leadership culture and improving business outcomes as they focused on building better leaders for a better future," said Kevin Tamanini, VP Professional Services & Customer Success at DDI. 

"This year's Excellence Award winners exemplify the transformative power of strategic human capital management. Through their innovative approaches to talent development and employee engagement, these organizations have not only achieved remarkable business outcomes but have also redefined what it means to create truly people-centric workplaces. Our comprehensive evaluation process has identified these programs as benchmarks for organizational excellence and innovation," said Brandon Hall Group Chief Operating Officer Rachel Cooke, HCM Excellence Awards® program leader.

Entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts, and executives based on these criteria: 

• Alignment to their business need and environment.
  
  
• Program design, functionality, and delivery. 
  
  
• Adoption, integration, user experience, innovation, and creativity.
  
  
• Overall effectiveness, impact, and measurable benefits.

Excellence Award winners will continue to be honored at Brandon Hall Group's HCM Excellence Conference, February 9-12, 2026, at the Hilton West Palm Beach, Florida. Select winners will also serve as presenters in breakout sessions, sharing their leading practices during the conference.

About DDI
DDI is the leadership consulting firm HR executives depend on to hire, promote, and develop exceptional leaders. From first-time managers to C-suite executives, DDI is by leaders' sides, supporting them in every critical moment of leadership. Built on five decades of research and experience in the science of leadership, DDI's evidence-based assessment and development solutions enable millions of leaders around the world to succeed, propelling their organizations to new heights. For more information, visit ddiworld.com. 

About Brandon Hall Group™

Brandon Hall Group™ is the only professional development company that offers data, research, insights and certification to Learning and Talent executives and organizations. The best minds in Human Capital Management (HCM) choose Brandon Hall Group™ to help them create future-proof employee development plans for the new era.

For over 30 years, we have empowered, recognized and certified excellence in organizations worldwide, influencing the development of over 10 million employees and executives. Our HCM Excellence Awards® program was the first to recognize organizations for learning and talent and is the gold standard, known as the "Academy Awards of Human Capital Management."

The awards recognize the best organizations that have successfully developed and deployed programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems and tools that have achieved measurable results. We are honored to receive applications from organizations worldwide ranging from small, medium, large and global enterprises to government, not-for-profits and associations.

About GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.

GE HealthCare is a trusted partner and leading global healthcare solutions provider, innovating medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and integrated, cloud-first AI-enabled solutions, services and data analytics. We aim to make hospitals and health systems more efficient, clinicians more effective, therapies more precise, and patients healthier and happier. Serving patients and providers for more than 125 years, GE HealthCare is advancing personalized, connected and compassionate care, while simplifying the patient's journey across care pathways. Together, our Imaging, Advanced Visualization Solutions, Patient Care Solutions and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics businesses help improve patient care from screening and diagnosis to therapy and monitoring. We are a $19.7 billion business with approximately 53,000 colleagues working to create a world where healthcare has no limits.

GE HealthCare is proud to be among 2025 Fortune World's Most Admired Companies™.

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About AtkinsRéalis 

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital.  News and information are available at www.atkinsrealis.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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