More than 430 Stevie® Award winners, their guests, and judges will attend The 2025 (23rd Annual) American Business Awards® presentations tomorrow, June 10, at the infamous Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.  

Gold, Silver, Bronze, Grand, and People's Choice Stevie Award winners in the program were announced in April and May. Winners were selected from 3,600 nominations across the USA.

The American Business Awards recognize achievement in the workplace across a wide variety of categories and have become recognized as the premier business awards program in the United States.

More than 300 professionals around the world participated in the judging process this year to determine the winners.

Here is the list of organizations that will be represented at tomorrow's event:

8x8, Campbell, CA
Aceolution Inc, Somerset, NJ
ACT Entertainment, Burbank, California
ADI | Snap One, Charlotte, NC
Associated Students UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Aurora Sustainable Lands, Chapel Hill, NC
BAE Systems, Inc., Nashua, NH
BairesDev®, Mountain View, CA
Beyond Finance, Chicago, IL
Biogen
BlueCross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Boost Payment Solutions, New York, NY
Bristol Global Mobility, Phoenix, AZ
Castle Biosciences (Derek Maetzold), Friendswood, TX
Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary, Newtown, CT
Cempa Community Care, Chattanooga, TN
Chamberlain Group, Oak Brook, IL
Chibitek, Ridgefield NJ
Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
CloudBlue, Irvine, CA
Comcast Business, Philadelphia, PA
Computer Generated Solutions, Inc., New York, NY
Constant Contact, Waltham, MA
Coody & Co. Financing, Austin TX
Corn Refiners Association, Washington, DC
Corteva Agriscience
Creata (USA) Inc. Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Critical Mass, New York, NY
Cushman & Wakefield, Chicago, IL
DesiWeds, Houston, TX
Discover, Riverwoods IL
DocuWare Corporation, Beacon, NY
Docufree, Atlanta, GA
Dr. Athanasios Lolos, Falls Church, VA
DrFirst, Rockville, MD
Dun & Bradstreet, Jacksonville, FL
Earnifi, Scotch Plains, NJ
Eaton Corporation
eBay, San Jose, CA
Eden, Denver, CO
Emota, Philadelphia, PA
Emplifi, Columbus, OH
Experian
Fidelity Investments, Westlake, TX
Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, San Jose, CA
Generac Power Systems, Waukesha, WI
Georgia-Pacific Recycling, Atlanta, GA
Givelify, Indianapolis, IN
Goal Digger Girl Co, Dripping Springs, TX
Gov2Biz Inc., San Antonio, TX
Greencastle Consulting, Malvern, PA
Growth Catalyst Group, Los Angeles, CA
HCLTech
Hexaware Technologies, Iselin, NJ
Hilton Software, Coral Springs, FL
HP Inc, Palo Alto, CA
Human Interest, Inc., San Francisco, CA
IBM, Armonk, New York, NY
icepop, Los Angeles, CA
InstaMortgage Inc, San Jose, CA
ISN Software Corporation, Dallas, TX
Jaya Jaya Myra Productions, New York, NY
Kadena, New York, NY
Kampgrounds of America, Inc. Billings, MT
Kenvue Incorporated
Kestra Holdings, Austin, TX
Kinetic by Windstream, Little Rock, AR
Kodak, Rochester, NY
Kroll
Lafuente Sign and Awning, Everett, MA
Lee Andrews Group CANCELLED
Lisa Tener, Saunderstown, RI CANCELLED
Loanspark, Newton, MA
Logical Position, Lake Oswego, OR
MediaGo, Mountain View, CA
Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA); Nashville, TN
MRC Global
N-able, Burlington, MA
Navina, New York, NY
NVSTly: Social Investing, Los Angeles, California
NIX, Tampa, FL
Ohio Humanities, Columbus, OH
OmniWatch, San Diego, CA
OneAmerica Financial, Indianapolis, IN
Opus 2, San Francisco, CA
Paysafe, London, UK
Pelagie Foundation, Conyers, GA
Philip Morris International, Stamford, CT
Premier Home Pros, Akron, OH
PrimeRx, Uniondale, NY
Product Connections (PC), Bentonville, AR
Promantus Inc, Raleigh, NC
QualiZeal, Irving, TX
Quest Diagnostics
Redstone Federal Credit Union, Huntsville, AL
Reputation House, Dubai, UAE
Revolve Solutions LLC, Alexandria, VA
Revature, LLC, Reston, VA
Runway 7, New York, NY
SAP, Global
Savers Value Village, Bellevue, WA
SCHERMER, Minneapolis, MN
Shield Screening, Tulsa OK
Showdown Displays, Brooklyn Center, MN
SolarWinds Inc, Austin, TX
Surplus Line Association of California, San Ramon, CA
SynergenX Health, Houston, TX
Synovus, Columbus, GA
Syntiant Corp, Irvine, CA
The Caregiver's Journey, Johns Creek, GA
The Flock, Miami, FL
The Holliday Collaborative Agency: Indianapolis, IN
The MathPal , Mountain House, CA
The Stories and Wisdom Company, Seattle, WA
Three Rings Inc., Boston, MA
T-mobile
Tony Roma's, Orlando, FL
Top Score Writing, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Universal Destinations and Experiences
Valor, Dallas, TX
Village Farms International, Lake Mary, FL
Vivreau, Vancouver, Canada
Vouched, Seattle, WA
Wheels, Bannockburn, IL
Windstream, Little Rock, AR
WM Inc., Houston, TX
Xperi Inc., Calabasas, CA
YKK AP America Inc., Atlanta, GA
ZLH Enterprises, Manalapan, NJ

The entry window for the 2026 edition of the ABAs will open this October.  Join our mailing list to be sent the entry kit when it becomes available.

Seventeen outstanding technology executives from across the United States have been named Finalists in four HCLTech Supercharging Progress categories in The 23rd Annual American Business Awards®, the top honors for achievement in the workplace in the USA.

A jury of technology professionals from around the world will determine the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie® Award placements from among the Finalists. The placements will be revealed during The American Business Awards’ banquet at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City on Tuesday, June 10.

The Finalists are:

Adaptive Leadership in Technology
Finalists:
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island: Joe Friedrichsen, Chief Technology Officer
Corteva Agriscience: Larry Brandmeyer, Global Infrastructure, Operations, Cloud & Service Management Leader
Gallagher: Mark H. Bloom, Global Chief Information Officer Leader
GE Healthcare: Vipin Arora, Global Vice President - IT Operations
InterContinental Hotels Group: Scott Hughes, Vice President, Security Operations & Fusion Center

Digital Strategy Excellence
Finalists:
Biogen: Kumar Venugopal, VP, Enterprise Applications (Data, Digital, AI, Global Platforms)
Kroll: Sharon Dhall, Chief Information Officer
MRC Global: George Turanchik, Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Universal Destinations & Experiences, a division of NBCUniversal: Dang Ly, Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer

Excellence in Emerging Technology
Finalists:
CommonSpirit Health: Jason Richeson, Senior VP and CTO
InterContinental Hotels Group: Matthew Mason, Head of Service Desk & Workplace Experience
Quest Diagnostics Inc.: Ravi Nekkalapu, Chief Enterprise Architect, Head of Enterprise Technology
T-Mobile US, Inc.: Aravind Manchireddy, Senior Vice President, Tech Ops

Excellence in Transforming Business
Finalists:
Eaton Corporation: Balaji Ganesan, Vice President of IT and CTO
Experian: Kathy Tira, Global Senior VP, Digital Workplace & Corporate Systems
Kenvue Inc.: BK Shepard, Chief Technology Officer
Smurfit Westrock: Joseph Hinkle, Chief Information Security Officer

HCLTech is a long-time sponsor of The American Business Awards. HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 225,900 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering and cloud, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. They work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Visit hcltech.com to learn more.

Stevie Awards President Maggie Miller commented on the Finalists: “We’re privileged to have HCLTech continue as a sponsor of the ABAs and to have so many accomplished technology executives as Finalists for Stevie Awards. All of them will be recognized as Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie winners, and we look forward to welcoming them on stage to receive their due recognition on June 10.”

The American Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace, from customer service and marketing to management, new product development, and technology. The Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners in other categories in the ABAs were announced in April. The full list of those winners is featured at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.

Sponsors of The 2025 American Business Awards include HCLTech, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro.

Winners to be Recognized June 10 at an Awards Ceremony in NYC 

Winners have been announced in the 2025 People's Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite New Products, an annual feature of The American Business Awards®, the U.S.A.’s top business awards program, which is now in its 23rd year.

The worldwide public vote was conducted in April and May, with the highest number of votes determining the winners in more than 50 product and service categories. More than 11,000 votes were cast. To win, a category’s leading vote-getter had to have received at least 100 votes.

The winners of the crystal People’s Choice Stevie Awards will be recognized during the ABA’s awards ceremony on June 10 in New York City, along with the winners of the Grand, Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie winners announced in April and May.

All new products and services nominated in the new product awards categories of this year’s ABAs were eligible to be included in voting for the People’s Choice Stevie Awards.

The winners of the 2025 People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products are:

AI - Financial: Wolters Kluwer's CCH Tagetik Intelligent Platform
AI - Other: SuccessKPI's Invisible GenAI
Cloud Storage & Backup Solution: N-able Inc's Cove Data Protection
Computer Hardware: Solidigm D5-P5336
Consumer Products & Services: MYND360 Night Time
Cybersecurity Solution: AT&T Dynamic Defense
DevOps Solution: Elevance Health's Health Data Streaming from Wearables and Processing
Digital Process Automation Solution: Ispirer Toolkit 10
Education Technology Solution: Savvas Learning Company's PathMaker
Financial Management Solution: EBizCharge
Financial Services: The Q4 Platform
FinTech Solution: EBizCharge
Payments Solution: EBizCharge
Supply Chain Management Solution: TrueCommerce's ReplenishAI
Work Management Platform: IBM's Productivity Assessment Tool.

Sponsors of The 2025 American Business Awards include HCLTech, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro.

AT&T Wins Organization of the Year for the Third Time

The Stevie® Awards announced today the Grand Stevie Award winners in The 23^rd Annual American Business Awards^® competition. Winners will be honored during the ABA awards banquet on June 10, 2025 in New York City. Registration for the event is now open.

All organizations operating in the U.S.A. - large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit - are eligible to submit nominations to the ABAs in a wide range of categories, honoring achievement in every aspect of work life, from customer service and management to public relations and product development.

This year more than 3,600 nominations were considered in the judging process by more than 250 professionals on 12 juries.  Their average ratings determined the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners announced earlier this month. For complete lists of those Stevie Award winners, visit http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.

The Grand Stevie Awards are best-of-competition prizes awarded to the organizations that submit the best body of work to the competition, in their own name or in the names of one or more clients. Grand Stevie Awards cannot be applied for directly.

2025 Grand Stevie winners in The American Business Awards are as follows:

Organization of the Year: 

AT&T, the multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Dallas, Texas is the most honored organization in the 23^rd ABAs. The firm earned 33 award points through six Gold, three Silver, and six Bronze Stevie wins by its AT&T Business and AT&T Multimedia Services units. This is the seventh Grand Stevie won by the firm in the ABAs, including Organization of the Year wins in 2022 and 2023. 

Highest-rated New Product or Service of the Year:

With an average score from the judges of 9.14 out of a possible 10, EBizCharge, Irvine, California wins for its eponymous solution, Gold Stevie winner for Best New Payments Solution. 

Highest-rated Nomination of the Year:

There is a tie this year for this honor, both nominations having received final average scores of 9.67 / 10.  The winners are the nomination of the human resources department at Everise, Plantation, Florida, winner of a Gold Stevie for Human Resources Department of the Year, and the customer service department at One Step GPS, San Fernando, California, winner of a Gold Stevie for Customer Service Department of the Year. 

Most Honored Marketing Agency of the Year: 

Three Rings Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts is this year’s most honored marketing agency in the ABAs, with 23 award points earned on behalf of nominations submitted for clients BillingPlatform, Boost Payment Solutions, Constructor, CYPHER Learning, Q4 Inc., and TrueCommerce. This is the first Grand Stevie win for the agency, which focuses on integrated marketing and communications for B2B tech companies.

Most Honored Public Relations Agency of the Year:  

MikeWorldWide, New York, New York wins the honor this year with 24.5 award points earned on behalf of itself and clients Nikon, Red Lobster, and the 150^th Kentucky Derby.  MikeWorldWide is among the world’s leading independent, integrated PR agencies with five offices across the United States, Latin America, and the United Kingdom.  Formerly known as MWW, the agency won Grand Stevies in the ABAs in 2013-2016.

The 2026 edition of The American Business Awards will begin accepting nominations this October.  Learn more and get the entry kit at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA. 

Sponsors of The 2025 American Business Awards include HCLTech, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro.

The Stevie® Awards, organizers of the world's premier business awards programs, today announced the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie winners in The 23rd American Business Awards®.

All organizations operating in the USA - large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit - are eligible to submit nominations to the ABAs in a wide range of categories, honoring achievement in every aspect of work life, from customer service and management to public relations and product development.

More than 3,600 nominations were considered in the judging process this year by more than 250 professionals worldwide, whose average scores determined the winners.

Winners of three or more Gold Stevie Awards include:

ADP, Roseland, NJ (3), AT&T, Dallas, TX (6), Applied Systems, Chicago, IL (3), Athena, San Juan, PR (3), C-Strategies Inc., Chicago, IL (3), Comcast Business, Philadelphia, PA (3), DHL, Westerville, OH (3), Delta Dental of Kansas, Wichita, KS (4), Gov2Biz Inc., San Antonio, TX (4), IBM, Armonk, New York, NY (4), ISN Software Corporation, Dallas, TX (5), MikeWorldWide, New York, NY (6), Netcracker Technology, Waltham, MA (3), Partner.Co, Midvale, UT (3), Russell Harris Event Group, North Hollywood, CA (3), Soapy Joes Car Wash, Santee, CA (3), Southwest Airlines, Dallas, TX (3), Sparks, Philadelphia, PA (3), State Farm, Bloomington, IL (3), The Home Depot Backyard, Atlanta, GA (3),  and Thomson Reuters, New York, NY (4).

For a complete list of the Stevie Award winners announced today, visit http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.

Winners of five best-of-show prizes will be awarded Grand Stevie Award trophies, to be announced the week of April 28.

2025 Stevie winners will be celebrated during an awards banquet on Tuesday, June 10 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Tickets for the event are now on sale.

The categories that recognize outstanding new products and services introduced in the USA are among the most heavily subscribed in the ABAs. Every new product or service nominated in The 2025 American Business Awards is included in voting for the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products, an annual feature of the ABAs in which the general public votes for their favorite new products. Voting opens on April 25 at http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com and will conclude on May 23. People's Choice Stevie winners will be announced the week of May 26 and will be honored during the June 10 awards presentations.

"We’re proud to recognize the impressive breadth of American organizations honored in The 2025 American Business Awards," said Michael Gallagher, founder and Executive Chairman of the Stevie Awards. "This year brought a notable increase in nominations for categories for podcasts and AI-related technologies and achievements - highlighting the growing impact of emerging industries in our economy. We look forward to celebrating the accomplishments of the 2025 Stevie winners on June 10 in New York City."

Sponsors of The 2025 American Business Awards include HCLTech, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro.

The Stevie® Awards, organizer of The American Business Awards®, announced today that the final entry deadline for the 23rd annual competition has been extended through April 3. No additional late fees will be charged. Entries submitted through the new deadline will not be penalized in any way in the judging process.

“We’ve received so many requests for individual deadline extensions that we’ve decided to extend the deadline for everyone,” said Stevie Awards President Maggie Miller. The original final deadline was March 5.

The American Business Awards are widely considered to be the premier business awards program in the U.S.A. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations— public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large, and small. The 2025 awards will honor achievements since the beginning of 2023. Entry details are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.

The American Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace. Categories include:

• Achievement Categories
• App Categories
• Company / Organization Categories
• Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, & Public Relations Categories
• Customer Service Categories
• Entrepreneur Categories
• Event Categories
• Human Resources Categories
• Management Categories
• Marketing Categories
• New Product & Product Management Categories
• Podcast Categories (New for 2025)
• Publication Categories
• Social Media Categories
• Support Categories
• Sustainability Categories
• Technology Categories
• Thought Leadership Categories
• Video Categories
• Web Achievement Categories

More than 200 professionals nationwide will participate in the judging process through mid-April. The Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie® Award winners will be announced on April 24 and celebrated during a gala event in New York City on June 10.

Every new product or service nominated in The 2025 American Business Awards will automatically be included in voting for the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products, an annual feature of the ABAs in which the general public votes for their favorite new products. Voting will open on April 25.

The list of past Stevie Award winners in The American Business Awards reads like a who’s who of innovation and business success in the U.S.A. Explore the list of last year’s winners.

Sponsors of The 2025 American Business Awards include, HCLTech, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro.

Founded by Ankur and Aditi Daga, Angara Inc. is a family-started and family-run fine jewelry brand, committed to "helping the world celebrate with color." Their handcrafted jewelry is dressed in high-quality gemstones, diamonds, and pearls, and every piece is made to order.

Stevie-winner Ankur Daga, Founder and CEO of Angara, is a visionary entrepreneur whose journey is defined by a passion for gemstones and a commitment to transform the industry through a more personalized shopping experience. A Harvard graduate with a Gemological Institute of America (GIA) certification, Ankur's entrepreneurial spirit was evident even during his academic years when friends sought him out for customizing engagement rings, foreshadowing the path he would later embark upon.

A Journey Rooted in Passion
Ankur's personal journey, from combing the carpet for diamonds at the age of 5 to working in the family's wholesale gemstone business as a teen, reflects a deep connection to the industry. Despite initially choosing a different path through academia and consulting, he was driven to return to his roots by a unique combination of experiences.

Ankur's professional trajectory took an interesting turn at McKinsey & Company, where he worked as a consultant on a jewelry brand, making him realize the untapped potential of the market. Through online retail and customer-focused strategies, he set out to transform the fine jewelry industry with the power of customization.

In 2005, Ankur Daga founded Angara, combining generational expertise and cutting-edge technology. His long-term approach deliberately eschewed venture capital funding, ensuring alignment with his ambitious goals.

With features like gemstone quality, carat weight and metal choice, every jewelry piece comes in a minimum of 64 variants to suit every style and budget. Today, with its most recent "Create with Angara" (CWA) feature, Angara allows customers to design their own rings from scratch—from a plethora of gemstone options, styles, settings and precious metals–within minutes.

Ankur recognized the challenge of shifting customer mindsets towards buying fine jewelry online and strategically addressed it through this accessible, convenient, and highly personal approach, ensuring that what customers had in mind was precisely what they received.

Transforming the Industry With Color
Angara's manifesto which reads, "Color Changes Everything. For the Better," reflects Ankur's core belief. For this reason, he initiated the brand’s always-on campaign, "Celebrate with Color" to encourage people to celebrate life’s precious moments with color.

In an industry dominated by diamonds, Ankur's bold vision is to become the undisputed leader in colored gemstones, aiming to create a cultural shift, rekindling appreciation for the beauty and significance of colored gemstones that have been overshadowed for decades.

Overcoming Challenges and Vertical Integration
Ankur notably navigated challenges like lack of awareness about gemstones and customer perceptions about buying jewelry online through his vertical integration strategy. Spanning gemstone cutting, polishing, jewelry design, manufacturing, and eCommerce retail, he ensures that everything is handled by his in-house team, addressing challenges head-on.

In 2022, Ankur introduced a partnership program. In an effort to nurture entrepreneurship within the company, he is setting up smaller start-up units within Angara that are driven solely by individuals and contribute to overall success. Furthermore, he champions the empowerment of women in leadership roles, attributing the success of Angara in part to the contributions of his own mother and wife.

Looking Ahead
As colored gemstones gain a larger share of the market, Ankur envisions Angara as a name synonymous with color. The company has experienced significant growth and now has a team of around 500 members spread across 10 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Angara Inc. CEO Ankur Daga won a Gold Stevie for Best Entrepreneur in Retail, and Angora Inc. earned an additional Gold and two Silver Stevies for Retail Marketing Campaign of the Year, Fastest Growing Company of the Year, and Achievement in Customer Satisfaction, respectively, in The 2024 American Business Awards^®.

Interested in entering for 2025?

Stevie-winner MahaloHub is focused on creating mobile applications and marketing strategies designed to help businesses effectively connect with their audiences. Founded to meet the growing need for targeted and user-friendly mobile solutions, MahaloHub combines technology, analytics, and creative design to help brands reach their goals in a mobile-first world.

Demand for marketing video content continues to grow. At the same time, the recommendation of a real person continues to carry more impact than any marketing campaign. MahaloHub is a self-service web-based application that makes it easy for companies of all sizes to invite, capture, and edit a steady stream of authentic customer and employee testimonial videos and easily share them across their digital landscape.

While the demand for video is growing, traditional video testimonials are expensive and time-consuming and cannot scale to meet the growing demand. MahaloHub eliminates the cost and time requirements of capturing, editing, and sharing customer and employee stories with a budget-friendly, user-friendly, and fully guided process that companies and their customers love.

Designed to augment expensive yet beautifully produced, traditional videos, companies can now capture authentic stories that resonate far more than slick promotional videos. The innovative editing suite makes it simple for organizations of any size to add their logo, text overlay, call-to-action, closed-captioning, image enhancements, timing, intro/outro, and more. Videos can be shared with one click across all social media sites, to a website, pre-built microsites, downloaded, and shared with a link or QR code.

MahaloHub provides services that range from developing custom mobile applications to crafting data-driven mobile marketing campaigns. Their approach involves understanding each client’s specific audience and business objectives and then tailoring solutions that align with those needs. By utilizing tools such as advanced analytics and AI-driven personalization, MahaloHub ensures that the mobile experiences they create are both engaging and functional. 

The company places a strong emphasis on collaboration throughout the project lifecycle. From initial consultations to post-launch support, MahaloHub works closely with clients to ensure the delivered products and strategies meet both immediate needs and long-term growth plans.

MahaloHub's focus on combining user-centric design with robust functionality has made them a reliable partner for companies looking to leverage mobile technology to drive engagement and growth. 

MahaloHub won a Silver Stevie Award for Best Mobile App Marketing in The 2024 American Business Awards^®.

Interested in entering for 2025?

Founded in 2020, Stevie-winner Founderz is an online business school dedicated to upskilling individuals for the jobs of the future. With over 9,000 learners in 20 countries, the platform is trusted by more than 200 companies, including Deloitte, HP, and EY, for team training.

The collaborative learning platform leverages online training programs, artificial intelligence (AI), and metaverse technology to deliver an interactive, online learning experience. Users can learn at any time and from anywhere through short video lessons, live events, masterclasses, and forum debates within a community of global students.

They also developed the first online AI & Innovation learning program in collaboration with Microsoft. In its first week, the program attracted 1,500 new registrants and has since grown to over 5,000 students, making it the largest AI training program in Europe.

In December 2023, they introduced the first online AI in Sports learning program in collaboration with theGlobal Sports Innovation Center powered by Microsoft (GSIC). This program prepares professionals for AI applications in sports, featuring insights from Microsoft’s AI General Manager and case studies from leading organizations at the forefront of this transformation, such as LaLiga and Real Madrid.

Founderz’s learning ecosystem redefines online education by combining cutting-edge training programs with a collaborative platform, an AI Study Buddy, and a virtual campus. The collaborative education platform organizes each program into accessible modules, allowing students to navigate through bite-sized, cinema-quality video lessons, assignments, and progress tracking, all of which enhance accessibility.

The virtual campus offers an immersive and interactive learning environment. Here, students can engage in real-time interactions with peers and attend online events and masterclasses. They can also join the Founderz Discord channel to stay updated on the latest trends and share current news, fostering a global community that transcends traditional online education boundaries enabling students to learn from and with each other.

A feature called AI Study Buddy, powered by GPT-4, provides personalized assistance as a virtual companion. This tool not only addresses specific program queries but also tailors the learning experience to individual student needs, enhancing the effectiveness of their educational journey.

Practical application of knowledge is key. Students demonstrate their understanding with video-recorded assignments, which are then shared for peer review. This process not only reinforces learning but also cultivates communication and feedback skills. Upon completing these modules, students receive certifications, showcasing their expertise within the Founderz network.

Founderz collaborations with industry leaders like Microsoft elevate the learning experience. The AI & Innovation course, for example, offers firsthand insights from industry experts, including the creators of Microsoft's RAI framework. These partnerships offer a robust platform for the professional advancement of individuals and the training of company employees. 

The benefits of choosing Founderz are multifaceted. They emphasize active, collaborative learning over passive video consumption, utilizing AI for deep student profiling. This approach not only enhances the learning process but also provides insights into individual learning styles. Their rapid program deployment, facilitated by an in-house production team, ensures timely and relevant content delivery. Additionally, their graduates emerge as upskilled evangelists for their partners' products, underscoring its impact on market leadership.

The advancements in cloud and AI have ushered in a new wave of required skills for work. According to Deloitte, 70% of professionals believe their job skills will change significantly in the coming year. With confidence in higher education also falling, about 48% of university students have considered dropping out due to a lack of suitable courses. These statistics highlight a need for upskilling and reskilling which Founderz provides as an alternative education option.

Founderz is not just a platform for gaining knowledge; it's a dynamic, technology-driven community that empowers students through collaborative and interactive learning experiences.

Founderz won a Gold Stevie Award for Best Use of Artificial Intelligence in EdTech in The 2024 American Business Awards^®.

Interested in entering for 2025?

Chicago-based Help at Home has a 50-year history of providing care for vulnerable populations, enabling clients to age in place at home with independence and dignity. The company has grown into a leading national provider of high-quality, relationship-based home care services for Medicaid-eligible seniors and people living with disabilities, now in 11 states.

In 2022, a new leadership team of healthcare executives with the vision to transform in-home personal care services set out to connect the healthcare ecosystem through innovation. In pursuit of this, Help at Home launched the Care Coordination program, which is built from a unique vantage point on caregiver-client relationships. Caregivers are in the home more than 20 hours per week on average, enabling ongoing client observations. The program capitalized on these relationships, implementing a tech-savvy data analytics program, AI, and a clinical team and creating a first-of-its-kind Care Coordination program connecting home care to health care.

Caregiver observations provide insights into serious health conditions or events like household fall hazards through digitized survey tools. Through AI predictive analytics, a clinical support team is alerted, and interventions are triggered that mitigate adverse events, keeping clients out of the hospital or nursing home.

In 2023, Care Coordination from the Help at Home program brought on nearly 2,000 clients and has demonstrated the ability to engage clients at scale, reduce the cost of care, improve care quality, increase caregiver and client satisfaction, and address health-related social needs that improve health equity.

Through partnerships with Medicaid state agencies and health plans, they have seen reductions in the cost of care, optimized health benefits, and positive impacts from social services partnerships, like better access to community housing and food assistance, etc. The program’s first year captured more than a million caregiver observations that sparked analysis leading to 1,300 proactive interventions to connect clients to their healthcare network, social services organizations, or community resources.

For Medicaid and dual-eligible individuals, about 80% of the impact on their health outcomes and cost of care comes from non-medical barriers such as social determinants of health and lifestyle. Help at Home designed the Care Coordination program with a health-equity forward approach to address these health disparities. The company employs community health workers who are in the communities and work with the team that includes the caregiver and other clinicians to intervene, make connections that address health-related social needs, and influence quality of life and health outcomes. In this manner, Help at Home is improving the quality of care provided to a largely underserved Medicaid population. This creates value for provider partners and payers seeking value-based care arrangements, and, over time, will drive down national healthcare spending.

As this skilled team of healthcare-savvy leaders continues to drive growth, resulting in increased scale, density, and operational efficiency, Help at Home is ready to meet the growing demand for home and community-based care for seniors and people living with disabilities utilizing Medicaid or dually eligible supports.

Help At Home won a Gold and two Silver Stevie Awards for Achievement in Product Innovation, Achievement in Growth Status, and Healthcare Communications or PR Campaign of the Year, respectively, in The 2024 American Business Awards^®.

Interested in entering for 2025?