Media release | 18 August 2O25
New Zealand leadership development company, Adeption, has been recognised on the world stage, receiving multiple awards with its clients at the prestigious 2O25 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards in the Leadership Development category—including a Gold award with Sport NZ – Ihi Aotearoa.
The Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards recognise best practices and innovative strategies in Human Capital Management.
Adeption and its clients won the following accolades:
- Sport NZ – Ihi Aotearoa and Adeption – Gold for Best Leadership Development Program
- Target Corporation and Adeption – Gold for Best Unique or Innovative Leadership Development Program
- Murray–Darling Basin Authority and Adeption – Gold for Best Senior Manager Development Program
- Salesforce and Adeption – Silver for Best Executive Development Program.
Adeption co-founder and CEO Carl Sanders-Edwards says the accolades highlight the vision and commitment of these organisations to invest in developing leadership capacity and agility in a rapidly changing world.
“There is no leadership playbook right now. These clients have partnered with us to co-design programmes that provide the scaffolding and support to develop real leadership capacity—empowering leaders to navigate the unknown challenges they’ll come up against today and in the future, and find innovative solutions.
“We’ve seen incredible results in these programmes. From significant shifts in leaders’ confidence to lead their teams into the future, to thousands of on-the-job actions being taken that deliver tangible business results, to measurable leadership mindset shifts in just a matter of months”.
Brandon Hall Group™ Chief Executive Officer Mike Cooke emphasizes the importance of results-focused leadership development. “The 2O25 Excellence Award recipients represent the pinnacle of achievement in human capital management. What sets this year’s winners apart is their bold embrace of emerging technologies and their commitment to creating meaningful employee experiences that drive tangible business results”.
“We’re thrilled to congratulate Sport NZ, Target, Salesforce and Murray–Darling Basin Authority on their success,” says Sanders-Edwards.
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Enquiries
For more information or to arrange an interview with an Adeption spokesperson, please contact:
Gemma Bird
Communications Manager, Adeption
gemmab@adeption.io
+64 21 183 5812
About Adeption
Founded in New Zealand, Adeption partners with organisations locally and globally on scalable leadership development experiences that make high-quality development accessible to people at all levels—from the C-Suite to the frontline.
Adeption’s approach to leadership development blends face-to-face workshops and events with its AI-powered digital coaching platform and unique action-learning methodology that focuses on continuous experimentation and reflection.
Adeption’s signature Be Conscious, Be Curious, Be Better (B3) framework is the foundation of its development experiences. It brings development into the flow of work, making it contextual while empowering leaders to continuously improve how they work, lead and live.
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 3O years, we have empowered, recognized and certified excellence in organizations worldwide, influencing the development of over 1O 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.