2022 Winners

Please see below the winners and finalists from the 2022 HR Leadership & Management Awards.

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Overall Excellence in HR

WINNER:

The YODA Programme - Obelisk

HR Leader 2022

RECIPIENT:

Kathryn Whyte

HR Team of the Year

WINNER:

Trigon Hotels

FINALISTS:

  • Boots Ireland
  • Chadwicks Group
  • Dalata Hotel Group
  • Depaul
  • Dublin Midlands Hospital Group
  • Gas Networks Ireland
  • National Council for the Blind of Ireland
  • The Doyle Collection
  • Trigon Hotels
  • Viatris OSD Baldoyle

Sponsored by:

HR Manager of the Year

WINNER:

Ciara Hood - Eli Lilly Kinsale

FINALISTS:

  • Ciara Hood - Eli Lilly Kinsale
  • Dylan Loughlin - Copacetic Business Solutions
  • Amy O'Dwyer - Aston Lark Ireland

HR Rising Star of the Year

WINNER:

Lesley-Anne Merrigan - FINEOS

FINALISTS:

  • Aaron Doyle - Sendoso
  • Lesley-Anne Merrigan - FINEOS
  • Jack O'Byrne - Tuath Housing Association
  • Shane O'Connor - Dalata Hotel Group
  • Sean Savicic - Chadwicks Group

Sponsored by:

Best Workplace Diversity Strategy

WINNER:

Woodie's

FINALISTS:

  • Bus Éireann
  • FINEOS Embrace - DEI
  • National Council for the Blind of Ireland
  • Public Appointments Service
  • Transgender Team Member Support Process- TELUS International Ireland
  • Vodafone Ireland
  • Woodie's

Sponsored by:

Most Effective Rewards & Benefits Strategy

WINNER:

DMI Cares

FINALISTS:

  • Approach People Recruitment
  • DMI Cares

Sponsored by:

Best Health & Wellbeing Strategy

WINNER:

Embedding a Culture of Workplace Wellbeing - Department of Foreign Affairs

FINALISTS:

  • Brown Thomas Arnotts
  • Connecting the DoTs - Department of Transport
  • DPD Ireland
  • Embedding a Culture of Workplace Wellbeing - Department of Foreign Affairs
  • FINEOS Zest - Mind, Body and Life
  • Iarnród Éireann
  • St. Vincent's Private Hospital

Sponsored by:

Best Flexible Working Strategy

WINNER:

National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training

FINALISTS:

  • Blended Working - Trinity College Dublin
  • Connecting the DoTs - Department of Transport
  • FINEOS Flex
  • National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training
  • Permanent TSB’s Flexible and Hybrid Workplace
  • Reimagining the Employee Experience - CluneTech

Most Effective Recruitment & Retention Strategy

WINNER:

Woodie's

FINALISTS:

  • Approach People Recruitment
  • Beckman Coulter
  • Schools Out for Summer - DPD Ireland
  • The Gleneagle Group
  • The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
  • Woodie's

Sponsored by:

Best Talent Management Strategy

WINNER:

Talent for Tomorrow - Bank of Ireland

FINALISTS:

  • Iarnród Éireann
  • Sustainably Driving Change - Bus Éireann
  • Talent for Tomorrow - Bank of Ireland

Best Change Management Programme

WINNER:

You Said, We Did - Trinity College Dublin

FINALISTS:

  • Bord na Móna's Transformation Journey
  • FINEOS Evolve
  • You Said, We Did - Trinity College Dublin

Best Use of CSR in HR

WINNER:

Brown Thomas Arnotts

FINALISTS:

  • Brown Thomas Arnotts
  • CluneTech Cares
  • Hotels

Most Effective Employee Engagement Strategy

WINNER:

Future of Work Project - Beckman Coulter

FINALISTS:

  • Eli Lilly Kinsale
  • FINEOS Celebrating Success
  • Future of Work Project - Beckman Coulter
  • National Council for the Blind of Ireland
  • The Great DPD Christmas Giveaway - DPD Ireland
  • Woodie's

Best Learning and Development Strategy

WINNER:

The YODA Programme - Obelisk

FINALISTS:

  • Broaden Your Horizons Researcher Development Programme - SETU
  • Bus Éireann
  • FINEOS Lead - Leadership for Growth
  • Leading in a Changing World - The Doyle Collection
  • The YODA Programme - Obelisk

Sponsored by:

Graduate Training Programme of the Year

WINNER:

Apprentice Programme - DPD Ireland

FINALISTS:

  • Apprentice Programme - DPD Ireland
  • Chemical Engineering Graduate Programme - Eli Lilly Kinsale

Most Effective Use of Internal Communications

WINNER:

Brown Thomas Arnotts

FINALISTS:

  • Brown Thomas Arnotts
  • CluneTech Presents: The Green Screen
  • Communications Matters - Digital Marketing Institute
  • Connecting the DoTs - Department of Transport
  • Future of Work Project - Beckman Coulter
  • Iarnród Éireann
  • MY IEHG App - Ireland East Hospital Group
  • We Are Walden - Walden Group
  • Woodie's

Most Innovative Use of Technology

WINNER:

Glantus

FINALISTS:

  • Depaul
  • Glantus
  • Ireland East Hospital Group

Best Public Sector HR Initiative

WINNER:

Social Work Graduate Employment - Tusla Child and Family Agency

FINALISTS:

  • Connecting the DoTs - Department of Transport
  • IEHG Lean Recruitment Model - Ireland East Hospital Group
  • Social Work Graduate Employment - Tusla Child and Family Agency
  • The Odyssey Researcher Mentoring Initiative - SETU
  • UCD RISE