2020 Shortlist

View the HR Leadership & Management Awards 2020 finalists below.

Overall Excellence in HR

  • Lidl Ireland and Northern Ireland (winner)

HR Leader 2020

  • Mark Redmond, Three UK & Ireland (recipient)

HR Team of the Year

  • Irish Water
  • Irish Wheelchair Association
  • MSD Ireland
  • Obelisk
  • Taxback Group
  • The Shelbourne Hotel
  • WaterWipes (winner)
  • Web Summit

HR Manager of the Year

  • Shane O'Brien - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Gillian O'Sullivan - Irish Water (winner)

HR Rising Star of the Year

  • Aaron Canty - Irish Water
  • Amie Doran - Peninsula
  • Lauren Fox - Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin
  • Ashleigh Martin - Clanwilliam Group (winner)
  • Jennifer O’Reilly - OASIS Group
  • Patrick Whelan - Peninsula

Best Employer Branding Programme

  • Beckman Coulter Ireland
  • Coca-Cola HBC Ireland
  • FINEOS Corporation
  • Mercury
  • MSD Ireland (winner)
  • SIRO
  • Taxback Group

Sponsored by:

Best Public Sector HR Initiative

  • Dublin City University
  • Enterprise Ireland
  • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
  • Irish Defence Forces (winner)
  • National Rehabilitation Hospital

Best Health & Wellbeing Strategy

  • Beckman Coulter Ireland (winner)
  • Cornmarket
  • Ervia
  • First Derivatives
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • Goodbody
  • JTI
  • Oxfam Ireland
  • Surmodics
  • Tricel

Sponsored by:

Best Talent Management Strategy

  • Dalata Hotel Group (winner)
  • Laya Healthcare Cadetship Programme
  • MSD Ireland
  • Wipro Technologies

Best Workplace Diversity Strategy

  • Beckman Coulter Ireland
  • First Derivatives
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Irish Defence Forces
  • MSD Ireland (winner)

Best Change Management Programme

  • Dublin City University
  • Goodbody
  • Lidl Ireland and Northern Ireland (winner)
  • Pembroke Hotel Kilkenny
  • Wipro Technologies

Sponsored by:

Best Recruitment Agency & HR Team Partnership

  • Approach People Recruitment Partnership (winner)
  • Clark & Teagasc

Most Effective Recruitment & Retention Strategy

  • Emerald Contact Centre
  • Goodbody
  • Mercury
  • MSD Ireland (winner)
  • Taxback Group

Best Use of CSR in HR

  • Cornmarket (winner)
  • BOLD GIRLS Workshops - KPMG
  • Taxback Group
  • Wipro Technologies

Best Learning & Development Strategy

  • Depaul
  • First Derivatives
  • Goodbody (winner)
  • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
  • Peninsula
  • WaterWipes

Most Effective Rewards & Benefits Strategy

  • Goodbody
  • RSA Insurance Ireland (winner)
  • Wallace Myers International

Most Effective Employee Engagement Strategy

  • Beckman Coulter Ireland
  • Dublin City University
  • Enterprise Ireland
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Irish Wheelchair Association
  • Mint Medispa by Pembroke Kilkenny
  • National Rehabilitation Hospital
  • Obelisk (winner)
  • Surmodics

Most Effective Use of Internal Communications

  • Bus Éireann
  • Enterprise Ireland
  • Ervia (winner)
  • Making a Difference - KPMG
  • Mercury
  • SIRO
  • Taxback Group

Most Innovative Use of Technology

  • Bus Éireann
  • daa
  • Enterprise Ireland
  • Ervia
  • LinkedIn
  • MANNOK (winner)
  • Tallaght University Hospital
  • Vodafone Ireland

Excellence in Education & Training

  • LIFT Ireland
  • Tallaght University Hospital (winner)