Richardson & Challenger Win Gold at Brandon Hall with Client's Cencora & Swisher

Announcement

Philadelphia, PA - August 14, 2025 - 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.

Richardson and Challenger Win Gold

Richardson, a leader in innovative sales performance improvement, won coveted Brandon Hall Group™ Gold awards for excellence in the  Sales Training and Performance (in partnership with Cencora) & Competencies and Skill Development (in partnership with Swisher) categories.

You can view the complete list of winners here: https://excellenceawards.brandonhall.com/winners/.

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. Select 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 Richardson & Challenger

Richardson is a global sales training company that equips revenue teams to win. We help sellers lead high-value customer conversations that compel buyers to act. Our powerhouse sales methodologies, grounded in our Consultative Selling and Challenger Sale approaches, drive consistent outperformance. Through customized learning, expert facilitation, data-driven insights, and ongoing reinforcement, we make sure training sticks. Our solutions integrate seamlessly, deliver commercial insights, and clearly connect to business outcomes—giving Revenue Leaders the scale and impact they need.

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.

About Cencora

Cencora combines core pharmaceutical distribution with innovative business solutions to help our partners across the healthcare spectrum get medications to the patients who need them. Cencora, Inc., formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, is an American drug wholesale company and a contract research organization, that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001.

About Swisher

Swisher is the company behind the iconic lifestyle brands adult consumers prefer. Their legendary status was earned through decades of adding connection to the everyday, because everything they do is centered around people - adult consumers, partners, and employees. They are building a bold future by igniting creativity and innovation.