The Awards will be open for
entries on April 3, 2023

Winners Announced

The Digital Workplace of the Year Awards, produced by Digital Workplace Group, celebrate those organizations and practitioners who have excelled at creating well-executed, high-performing digital workplace environments.

Now in their sixth year, the awards give you and your organization the opportunity to share your digital workplace achievements with peers and to gain global, industry recognition!

The winners of the 2022 Digital Workplace of the Year Awards are:

Digital Workplace Leader of the Year 2022

  • Kristy Litchford, Campbell Soup Company - Winner of Digital Workplace Leader of the Year
  • Kerry O’Donnell – The Estée Lauder Companies Inc - Employee-First Mindset
  • Chris Harrer – Comcast - Creative Communicator
  • Emily Schunior – The Coca-Cola Company - Change Maker
  • Laurie Workman – 3M - Empathetic Leader

Digital Workplace of the Year 2022

  • Winner - Fidelity Investments
  • DBS Bank - Cutting Edge award

Modern Intranet of the Year 2022

  • Winner – SAP SE
  • Abbvie – award for intranet management
  • Adobe – award for hybrid pioneer
  • NSPCC – award for Not for profit
  • The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. - award for cultural alignment
  • Northwester Mutual – award for productivity focus

DWG’s Director of Research, Elizabeth Marsh, who leads on the awards programme, comments: "In 2022, entrants to DWG's Digital Workplace and Modern Intranet awards have impressed us with their unrelenting focus on delivering exceptional digital employee experiences for the post-pandemic workforce. There are some cutting-edge practices and pioneering approaches that we hope will inspire practitioners across our industry. The judging panel have a tough job ahead picking winners from the 2022 cohort – making the shortlist is no small achievement in itself and we congratulate all those organizations listed!"

The shortlisted entries were reviewed by the judging panel, which comprises DWG’s Nancy Goebel, Susan Quain from Fidelity International*, Priya Thummalapalli from Intuit and Christy Punch from Liberty Mutual.

*Note: Susan Quain was recused from judging the Fidelity Investments’ entry.

“Thank you so much, we really appreciate it and love to be a part of the Digital Workplace Group family. We are really excited about the app and how this helps our employees do their best work and how they can contribute to the content – a super exciting application and solution.”

Toni Vanwinkle
Senior Director of Digital Workplace Experience
Adobe

Previous winners

Eligibility criteria
and entry requirements

The entry and judgement criteria for these global awards are underpinned by the collective knowledge and experience of DWG research, benchmarking and expertise plus extensive industry insights. Before you enter your organization, please take note of the following:

  1. Don’t feel your digital workplace needs to be perfect to enter!
  2. All organizations entering any category must have at least 1,000 employees.
  3. No consultants or vendors can submit an entry, unless on behalf of a client organization.
  4. Incomplete entries cannot be accepted.
  5. The submission deadline is midnight (BST) on April 19, 2022.
  6. We may contact you for clarification when reviewing submitted entries.
  7. We will only announce those organizations and individuals who have been shortlisted.
  8. By entering, you give DWG full permission to use your winning entry in promotions, publications and presentations. Winners will have the opportunity to review and sign-off on all such public media productions before publication.
  9. Previous winners of the main awards (i.e. Digital Workplace or Modern Intranet of the Year) are welcome to re-enter the awards 2 years on from their win so long as they demonstrate significant progress since the previous entry. Category winners may re-enter at any time.
  10. All entrants to Modern Intranet of the Year must include a minimum of one screenshot in their submission in order to be considered.

If you have any questions, please contact us at: dwawards@digitalworkplacegroup.com

The Digital Workplace of the Year Awards are produced by DWG.

The 2021 award winners

  • Winners for the Digital Workplace of the Year 2021
    • Adobe - Winner of Digital Workplace of the Year 2021
    • The Coca-Cola Company - Special award for Governance
    • DOM.RF Group - Special award for Innovation
    • Fidelity International - Special award for Hybrid Enablement
    • Fidelity Investments - Special award for Associate Experience
    • Finning - Special award for Employee Wellbeing

  • Winners for Modern Intranet of the Year 2021
    • DBS - Winner of Modern Intranet of the Year 2021
    • The Coca-Cola Company - Special award for Strategy
    • Foundation Medicine - Special award for Medium Sized Organisation
    • John Lewis Partnership - Special award for Employee Partnership
    • Robert Half - Special award for Simplifying Employees Lives

  • Winners for Digital Workplace Leader of the Year 2021
    • Linda Lee
      Head of DBS Future of Work, DBS - Winner of Digital Workplace Leader of the Year
    • Ashley Knight
      Product Owner, Enterprise Mobility, Conferencing and Workplace Automation – Fidelity International - One to Watch
    • Betsy Codding
      Head of Digital Communications and Multimedia – MassMutual - People Experience
    • Dawn Hancock
      Senior Director, Knowledge Management & Internal Communications – Nordic Consulting - Passionate Leader
    • Elisha McCallum
      Director, Global Communications – Finning - Employee Wellbeing
    • Graham Kennedy
      Domain Lead, Digital Workplace – Fidelity Investments - Game Changer

For a full list of all previous winners of Digital Workplace of the Year, click here.
For a full list of all previous winners of Digital Workplace Leader of the Year, click here.

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