Harbinger Wins Gold in Brandon Hall Group’s 2025 HCM Excellence Awards
Harbinger Group Wins Gold in HCM Excellence Awards Program by Brandon Hall Group.
Redmond WA – Harbinger Group, a global technology company that transforms the way people work and learn, won Gold in the 2025 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards. The company received this coveted accolade for its home-developed performance management tool named POLESTAR.
Gold Award
Program Area: Talent Management
Category: Best Performance Management
Entry Title: Customizable Continuous Performance Management System for Enhanced Employee Growth and Business Success
Harbinger’s award-winning solution transforms performance management with a customizable, continuous feedback system that aligns individual goals with business outcomes. It helps HR leaders personalize workflows, use real-time analytics, and build a culture of growth — driving engagement, better performance tracking, and measurable impact.
The 2025 Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards® recognizes best practices for initiatives in Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Sales Performance, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and the Future of Work.
Harbinger Group won Gold on August 14, 2025, under the Program Area “Talent Management” for “Best Performance Management”. You can view the complete list of winners here: https://excellenceawards.brandonhall.com/winners/.
“At Harbinger, we believe performance management is not an annual ritual but a continuous journey — one that enables employees and managers to engage in meaningful conversations, track progress in real time, and build a culture of trust, transparency, and alignment with business strategy,” said Neville Postwalla, Vice President – Talent Management & Operations at Harbinger Group. “Winning this award validates our commitment to helping organizations create people-centric workplaces where effective continuous performance management becomes a driver of both employee success and business growth.”
“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. Selected 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 Harbinger Group
Harbinger is a global technology company that builds products and solutions that transform the way people work and learn. For more than three decades, we have been innovating alongside organizations that are in the people business—serving the Human Resources, eLearning, Digital Publishing, Education, and High-Tech sectors.
At Harbinger, we understand that building a great product requires in-depth knowledge of the user, the nuances of the business, and expertise in technology. That is why we provide both end-to-end Product Development and Content Creation services.
Our pedigree in eLearning and building next-generation products has fostered a culture of continuous learning. We experiment with new technologies such as Generative AI, easily embrace new ideas, and creatively apply them to our customers’ products.
For more information, visit www.harbingergroup.com.
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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.
