Awards
Beyond the Sky Custom Learning Wins Gold
The 2025 Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards® recognizes best practices across initiatives in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Sales Performance, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and the Future of Work.
Beyond the Sky: Custom Learning, a leader in innovative learning, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group™ Gold award for excellence in the Learning & Development category on August 14, 2025. The complete list of winners can be viewed here: https://excellenceawards.brandonhall.com/winners/.
“This year’s Excellence Award winners exemplify the transformative power of strategic human capital management,” said Brandon Hall Group Chief Operating Officer Rachel Cooke, HCM Excellence Awards® program leader. “Through their innovative approaches to talent development and employee engagement, these organizations achieved remarkable business outcomes. They also redefined what it means to create truly people-centric workplaces. Our comprehensive evaluation process identified these programs as benchmarks for organizational excellence and innovation.”
Entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts, and executives. Specifically, the evaluation was 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.
“The 2025 Excellence Award recipients represent the pinnacle of achievement in human capital management,” said Brandon Hall Group™ Chief Executive Officer Mike Cooke. “What sets this year’s winners apart is their bold embrace of emerging technologies and their commitment to creating meaningful employee experiences. These efforts deliver tangible business results. They also demonstrate that when you invest in your people with purpose and innovation, the impact resonates across the enterprise, creating sustainable competitive advantages in today’s dynamic business landscape.”
“Winning Gold at the Brandon Hall Group Awards with our client BMO is an honor that highlights the strength of a true learning partnership. This award recognizes the measurable impact of an onboarding program that equips frontline employees to succeed, and it stands as proof of what’s possible when both organizations are fully committed to effective learning.”
About Beyond the Sky
Beyond the Sky: Custom Learning is known for creating truly effective learning solutions that drive measurable business results. Its expertise includes leadership development, technical training, digital learning, and AI-powered learning innovations such as AI role plays. Partnering with enterprise clients across industries, Beyond the Sky delivers programs that enable employees to perform and organizations to succeed.
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.
Beyond the Sky wins Training Magazine Choice Awards
Minneapolis, MN – August 5, 2025 – Training magazine proudly recognizes Beyond the Sky: Custom Learning as a 2025 Training Magazine Network Choice Awards Winner in the Leadership Development and Custom Content / Program Development Categories. The Choice Awards is the industry’s only crowd-sourced solution provider awards program.
“This year’s voting was our most vigorous to date, with more than 13,300 votes for nearly 250 providers. The best-of-the-best were clearly identified by their high rankings based on the effectiveness of their tools, platforms, and services,” notes Training magazine Editor/Publisher Lorri Freifeld. “These provider organizations are standouts for their customer care, innovation, and training solutions that truly optimize, engage, and prepare learners. We’re excited to recognize their stellar accomplishments and dedication to fostering training excellence.”
This recognition epitomizes client collaboration, strong partnerships, and the ultimate in client success. It reflects a deep commitment to designing programs that align with clients’ goals to create tailored learning experiences and make an impact. Winning in this category means there wasn’t just content creation – there was the right content created, with clear strategy, expertise, creativity, and the results continually driving it.
Program Development
Leadership Development
The Leadership Development category recognizes programs that build the skills, mindset, and resilience today’s leaders need to thrive. From emerging managers to senior executives, these initiatives reinforce the leading theories, while offering practical, high-impact learning experiences that foster growth, accountability, and strategic thinking. This category honors efforts to not only develop individual leaders and overall performance, but also have a focus on strengthening organizational culture to empower everyone’s long-term success.
“We’re grateful to be recognized in both Leadership Development and Custom Content/Program Development. This honor reflects the heart of our work—creating learning solutions that are creative, relevant, and make a real difference by building measurable skills.”
Training Magazine Network (TMN) is Training’s interactive social learning community and platform for the exchange of ideas and resources among our global learning professionals and thought leaders.
An alphabetical list in this category was compiled based on Training and TMN’s industry data and research, which was irrelevant of having any respective business affiliation, along with voters having the opportunity to enter their own preferred provider.
About Training Magazine Network
Training magazine (https://trainingmag.com) is the industry standard for professional development and news for training, human resources, and business management professionals in all industries through its print and digital magazine, two annual conferences, online courses, webinars, and multiple awards programs.
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