Wins Four Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards for Leadership and Learning Programs
New York, August 28, 2025
Ness received awards in the following categories:
- Silver – Best Hybrid Learning Program: Ness Certified Interviewer Program
- Silver – Best Leadership Development Program: Gravitas – Enhancing Executive Presence
- Bronze – Best Certification Program: Ness Certified Data Engineer Program (with NIIT StackRoute)
- Bronze – Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders: Ness Certified Engineering Lead Program
““Talent is the cornerstone of our success, and we are deeply invested in their learning and development. Through our programs, we focus on building impactful, business-aligned learning experiences that provide our people with the skills, tools, and leadership capabilities to drive innovation and deliver excellence for our clients,” said Ranjit Tinaikar, CEO, Ness Digital Engineering. “This Brandon Hall recognition underscores our belief that empowering people through continuous learning and leadership development is the key to sustainable growth.” he added.
Entries were judged by a panel of veteran independent industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts, and executives, who evaluated them on key criteria including alignment to business needs, program design and delivery, adoption and user experience, innovation, and overall effectiveness with measurable impact.
“Winning four Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Learning and Leadership Development is a powerful endorsement of our strategy to align capability building with business outcomes. Our programs have accelerated internal mobility, reduced external hiring costs, and cultivated future-ready leaders across the organization. This recognition belongs to our passionate learners and the supervisors who champion their growth every day—their commitment is the true driver of our success”, said Shivadarshan Deshamudre, AVP & Global Head – L&D.
“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.
About Ness Digital Engineering
Ness Digital Engineering is a full-lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Headquartered in New York, Ness serves our customers across 11 innovation hubs in the US, Eastern Europe, and India. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. In 2022, global investment firm KKR acquired a 100% stake in Ness Digital Engineering.
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.