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IC HDM Awards — Individual, Organisational & Service Provider
Choose the category that mirrors your achievement. Every box links to the nomination forms at the end of the page.
Individual Awards (IC’s Best Awards for HR Leadership)
IC’s Best Emerging HR Leader Award
For early- to mid-career HR professionals demonstrating outstanding promise through measurable people impact, innovation in policy/process, and stakeholder trust-building across functions.
NominateIC’s Best Women HR Leader Award
Honours women leaders who have redefined people strategy, advanced equity, and built inclusive systems that improved retention, mobility and culture at scale.
NominateIC’s Best Employee Relations Champion Award
Recognises leaders who strengthened trust through fair, transparent conflict resolution, policy clarity, and sustained employee voice—across plants, offices and distributed teams.
NominateIC’s Best HR Innovation Award
Awarded for inventive HR models—L&D, rewards, talent ops, or EX—where new ideas were operationalised and delivered measurable business outcomes.
NominateIC’s Lifetime Achievement in HR Award
For leaders whose decades-long contributions shaped the profession—policies, talent pipelines, ethics, and national best practices in HR.
NominateIC’s Best HR Leader of the Year Award
Top honour for a visionary CHRO/Head HR who aligned people strategy to business strategy to drive growth, resilience and a magnetic culture.
NominateStrategy Awards for Organizations (IC’s Best Awards for HR Strategy)
Organisation-led categories celebrating scalable, evidence-backed strategy and execution.
IC’s Best Talent Acquisition Strategy Award
End-to-end TA design that reduced time-to-fill and boosted quality-of-hire via employer brand, assessments, data-driven sourcing, and candidate experience.
NominateIC’s Best Compensation & Benefits Strategy Award
Total rewards that balanced competitiveness, fairness and affordability with clear communication and measurable engagement uplift.
NominateIC’s Best Diversity & Inclusion Strategy Award
Systemic DEI with leadership accountability, equitable processes and culture programs that improved representation and belonging metrics.
NominateIC’s Best Employee Experience Strategy Award
Human-centred journeys across joiner–mover–leaver moments that raised eNPS, reduced friction and strengthened trust.
NominateIC’s Best Learning & Development Strategy Award
Skills-first L&D with personalised pathways, manager enablement and business-linked capability outcomes—especially for multi-gen workforces.
NominateIC’s Best HR Technology Strategy Award
Digital HR stack (HRMS, LMS, ATS, analytics) that simplified work, improved decisions, and protected privacy by design.
NominateIC’s Best Performance Management Strategy Award
Outcome-based goals, frequent feedback, fair calibration and manager coaching that lifted performance and accountability.
NominateIC’s Best Employer Branding Strategy Award
Authentic employer narrative and candidate experience that increased applications, acceptance and retention in priority roles.
NominateIC’s Best Business Strategy Alignment in HR Award
People strategy that enabled market entry, transformation or scaling with clear leading indicators and ROI.
NominateIC’s Best Employee Engagement Strategy Award
From insights to action: manager rituals, recognition and communication that moved engagement—not just survey scores.
NominateIC’s Best Health & Safety Strategy Award
Proactive H&S in offices/plants with behaviour-based programs that reduced incidents and improved wellbeing.
NominateIC’s Best Employee Welfare Strategy Award
Impactful benefits and support systems addressing life-stage needs: financial, family, and mental wellness.
NominateIC’s Best Workforce Planning Strategy Award
Dynamic supply–demand planning, build–buy–borrow choices and internal mobility that reduced critical talent gaps.
NominateIC’s Best Remote Work Strategy Award
Hybrid models with clarity on roles, norms and performance—while protecting culture and collaboration.
NominateIC’s Best Succession Planning Strategy Award
Robust leadership pipelines, readiness acceleration and unbiased selection for critical roles.
NominateIC’s Best HR Data Analytics Strategy Award
From dashboards to decisions: predictive insights on attrition, performance and capacity with ethical data use.
NominateIC’s Best Organizational Culture Transformation Award
Behaviour change at scale—values, rituals and systems that made culture visible and durable.
NominateIC’s Best Change Management Strategy Award
Complex change (mergers, digitisation, restructuring) delivered with clarity, capability and care.
NominateIC’s Best Onboarding Strategy Award
Seamless, culture-rich onboarding that accelerated time-to-productivity and early engagement.
NominateIC’s Best Employee Well-being Strategy Award
Integrated mental, physical and social wellbeing with measurable impact on absenteeism and eNPS.
NominateService Provider Awards (For HR Tech & Services Brands)
Recognising partners who power HR outcomes for enterprises in India.
Best HR Technology Platform
Product excellence, adoption and measurable client impact across HRIS/LMS/ATS/engagement/analytics with enterprise-grade security.
NominateBest HR Managed Services
Reliable, compliant and scalable HR ops/BPO/RPO that elevated client experience and outcomes.
NominateBest L&D Content/Academy Partner
Industry-relevant, measurable skill outcomes through blended learning, academies or credentialed pathways.
NominateIf your HR work created value — we want to see it
HR leaders, L&D teams, People Operations, HR Tech & Services partners delivering measurable talent and business outcomes in India.
Corporates & Enterprises
Showcase strategies that moved organisational metrics—capability, retention, performance and culture—at scale.
NominateGrowth Companies & Startups
Highlight scrappy, efficient people systems that enabled rapid growth without compromising culture.
NominateHR Tech & Service Providers
Demonstrate client impact, adoption and ROI across HR workflows, learning and analytics.
NominateIndian HR Convention & IC HDM Awards
Indian Conventions has been organising awards since 2008. IHRC 2025 brings India’s HR leaders together to celebrate strategies and systems that build future-ready organisations.
Evidence-led
We celebrate programs with clear business impact—retention, productivity, skills and engagement.
New-age
HR built for today: multi-generation design, AI-infused workflows, and skills-first growth paths.
Recognition & Community
Winners feature across stage, site and media—joining a network of decision makers.
Future-Ready HR: Bridging Generations, Building Skills, and Powering Workplaces with Technology
Six contemporary conversations—three on Learning & Development and three on HR Technology—designed for India’s evolving workforce.
Learning & Development
Multi-Generational Learning Design
Tailoring programs for Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers to learn together—formats, facilitation, and assessment that respect diverse motivations and attention patterns.
Adaptive Learning Pathways
AI-powered, hyper-personalised pathways that evolve with business needs—skill graphs, role academies, and manager-led coaching loops that stick.
Cognitive Resilience Training
Building mental agility to thrive amid uncertainty—practice-based modules for focus, decision quality, and change readiness.
HR Technology
Digital Harmony Across Generations
Tools and platforms that meet diverse work styles—designing HR tech that’s intuitive for first-time users and powerful for power users.
Predictive Workforce Foresight
Using AI to anticipate talent gaps, attrition risks and capacity constraints—turning data into timely interventions with measurable ROI.
Human-Centric Automation
Automating HR without losing the human connection—ethical AI, privacy by design and moments that matter crafted with empathy.
Actionable ideas, credible peers, India-first context
Practical & Proven
Case studies and playbooks you can use on Monday—no fluff, only what moved metrics.
Generation-Savvy
Design for co-existing generations—programs that engage everyone without lowest-common-denominator compromises.
Risk-Aware, Ethics-First
Privacy, governance and AI guardrails built into HR systems from day one.
Leaders shaping the next era of growth
CHROs & HR Leaders
Strategy insights, peer learning and tools to align people strategy with growth.
L&D, OD & Talent
Design high-impact academies, pathways and manager capability that scale.
HR Tech & People Analytics
Build stacks and models that improve decisions while respecting ethics and privacy.
High-context visibility with decision makers
Own the conversation with India’s HR, L&D and People Analytics leaders—on stage, on-site and online.
Current Partners
Our current partners supporting IHRC & IC HDM Awards.
Solutions that power HR & L&D teams
HR Tech & Platforms
HRIS, ATS, LMS, engagement, EX analytics, AI copilots and talent marketplaces.
Services & Advisory
Recruitment, RPO, BPO, OD, coaching, and specialist HR consulting partners.
Content & Academy Partners
Credentialed programs, industry academies and blended learning that deliver verifiable skill outcomes.
Recognising work that lasts
Moments that shaped the stage
Highlights from recent editions
Talk to our team
Reach out for nominations, delegate passes, speaking, or sponsorships.
Nominations
Amaan Taqvi
amaan@indianconvention.com
+91 7275859841
Speakership
Reeti Gupta
reeti@indianconvention.com
+91 9899610630
Organisation Nominations
For organisational strategy categories. Uniform fields & spacing applied.
Individual Nominations
For leadership & individual excellence categories. Uniform fields & spacing applied.