CHICAGO (August 15, 2025) – WeLearn, a learning services, consulting, and custom content provider and its Ready to Work program with UMass Global and Mass General Brigham, won a coveted silver Brandon Hall Group™ award for excellence in talent acquisition. You can view the complete list of winners here.
“We are honored to be recognized by the Brandon Hall Group for the Ready to Work program for the third year in a row,” said Sean Stowers, founder and CEO of WeLearn. “We are truly invested in the success of our partners and are proud to have come together with this group to create an allied healthcare staffing solution that benefits everyone from the candidate to the healthcare system.”
“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.
“The 2025 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. These organizations have demonstrated that when you invest in your people with purpose and innovation, the impact resonates throughout the entire enterprise, creating sustainable competitive advantages in today’s dynamic business landscape,” said Brandon Hall Group™ Chief Executive Officer Mike Cooke.
About WeLearn
If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backwards. When it comes to corporate learning, stagnant, impersonal consulting and services lead to stagnant and impersonal content for your employees. WeLearn is a learning services, consulting, and custom content provider that works alongside you to co-create behavior-changing solutions. WeLearn delivers exceptional learning experiences, no matter what. Our company serves SMB to small enterprises across the United States and beyond. Learn more at WeLearnLS.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.