Betterworks Earns Bronze in 2025 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards

Recognition honors Betterworks’ AI-powered approach to continuous performance that improves engagement, alignment, and workforce visibility

MENLO PARK, CA – Dec. 16, 2025 – Betterworks, the leading performance management software company, today announced it has won Bronze in the Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards for Best Advance in Performance Management Technology. This is the fifth straight year Betterworks has been recognized by Brandon Hall Group for its innovations that elevate goal-setting, feedback, and coaching at enterprise scale—helping organizations drive measurable business impact.

“This award reinforces a simple truth: when performance becomes a continuous, real-time conversation, everyone benefits,” said Doug Dennerline, CEO of Betterworks. “With responsible AI supporting the work, managers become more efficient, employees get clearer, and organizations move faster. I’m proud of our team for staying focused on what really matters: making work better for people and strengthening the connection between daily effort and business outcomes.”

Organizations today face a paradox in performance management: employees want clarity, meaningful feedback, and growth, but legacy systems remain anchored in compliance and annual review cycles that feel disconnected from daily work. The result is predictable—managers get buried in admin, employees lose sight of how their work ladders up to business objectives, and HR leaders are left without the insight needed to make confident, evidence-based talent decisions.

Betterworks tackles these challenges by reimagining performance as continuous performance enablement—a modern approach that embeds human-centric, responsible AI into everyday performance activities to improve goal quality, elevate feedback, and strengthen coaching at scale. With opt-in, explainable, and privacy-safe AI features like Goal Assist, Feedback Assist, and Conversation Assist, the platform delivers clarity and consistency while remaining intuitive, globally accessible, and easy to adopt for organizations of any size. With Betterworks, performance becomes a catalyst for growth, creating alignment, elevating engagement and productivity, and providing HR with the visibility to guide workforce strategy and business outcomes.

“The Excellence in Technology Awards celebrate the most forward-thinking innovations shaping the future of learning, talent, and human capital management,” said Rachel Cooke, Brandon Hall Group chief operating officer and leader of the Excellence Awards program. “This year’s winners exemplify how technology can unlock new possibilities—improving performance, enabling smarter decision-making, and transforming how organizations support and develop their people.”

Entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts, and executives based upon the following criteria: fit the need, program design, functionality, innovation, and overall measurable benefits.

All Excellence Award winners can be found here. Honorees will be recognized 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 Betterworks

Founded in 2013, Betterworks is the pioneer in continuous performance management solutions that help workforces and organizations achieve their highest potential. Betterworks reimagines performance management for all with an enterprise-ready platform that fosters greater manager effectiveness and employee performance, leading to higher satisfaction and retention and better business outcomes. It combines generative AI and data analytics that enable organizations to make smart, data-based decisions with a comprehensive solution that incorporates conversations, check-ins, feedback, employee engagement, and recognition — all accessible in the applications employees use daily.

Our customers’ employees are proven more engaged and satisfied in their roles, which is why industry leaders like Colgate-Palmolive, Intuit, ATB Financial, Ferrar,  Arcesium, and the University of Phoenix rely on Betterworks to manage and enable excellent performance. Betterworks is backed by Kleiner Perkins, Emergence Capital, and John Doerr.

For more information, visit www.betterworks.com. 

About Brandon Hall Group

Brandon Hall Group™ is the home of the HCM Excellence Awards® – the most prestigious and sought-after awards in Human Capital Management. For over 30 years, these awards have set the gold standard in recognizing organizations for innovative and effective HCM practices across Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Human Resources, Sales Performance, and Technology.

Known as the “Academy Awards of Human Capital Management,” the Brandon Hall awards programs attract entrants from leading corporations worldwide, as well as mid-market and smaller firms. With over 150 categories, the awards shine a spotlight on the most innovative and effective organizational achievements and the solution providers who power them.