2025 People Success Awards

HR’s role is often a thankless one. That’s why we created the People Success Awards. These awards celebrate organizations — and their leaders — building a people-powered future. 

All the nominees have made significant impacts in their organizations with innovative people strategy initiatives. The incredible nominations submitted from companies around the globe this year proved that HR practitioners and teams deserve all the love. Join us in congratulating the winners below:

Retainer Award

Recognizes an HR team making incredible strides to retain top performers with the help of Lattice. 

• Valimail didn’t just roll out Lattice Grow – they built a movement around it. From behavior-based growth tracks to a custom Career Development Menu, they saw a 23-point eNPS jump and retention 86% above industry benchmarks. 

Innovator Award

Recognizes a company that has used Lattice solutions to deliver measurable ROI and drive strategic impact. 

• Huge reimagined feedback by embedding it into the flow of work — creating a project-based feedback system in Lattice that increased manager clarity and improved performance scores by 9 points. Their success is proof that process design and technology can unlock leadership at scale. Read Huge’s customer story to see how they did it.

LattiChamp Award

Recognizes an HR leader that has partnered with Lattice through references, product feedback, events, and participating in product betas.

• Kaitlin Graves, VP of People at PageFreezer has been a true partner in innovation participating in product betas, webinars, a customer story, and reference calls. As an HR team of one, she has helped shape the future of Lattice solutions like HRIS — we’re grateful for her generous support every step of the way.

Growth Accelerator Award

Recognizes a company that has demonstrated the most innovative initiatives in promoting employee career development through its use of Lattice.

• Strive Health built a career development engine that reaches every corner of the company. They expanded structured career tracks for clinical and tech teams, trained over 50 new managers on Lattice, and launched IDPs to re-engage middle managers — proving that development done right can fuel both engagement and retention. Read Strive’s customer story for more.

Fractional Leader of the Year Award

Celebrates a standout member of Lattice's Fractional HR Program. 

• Lori Osborne of Mindful First HR helped a fast-growing tech company upgrade from spreadsheets to a scalable, accountability-driven performance process with Lattice. Through thoughtful change management and strategic alignment, she ensured strong adoption and long-term success — demonstrating the power of modern fractional leadership.

People Success Visionaries of the Year

Honors leaders who are making a transformative impact through innovative people strategies. 

• Gary Chow, Head of People Operations and Systems at Lyra Health, is bringing HR into the age of AI — launching internal HR bots that streamline support and enable global scaling. His work is laying the digital foundation for a future-ready People function.
• Karishma Barua, VP of HR, at Fairmarkit is being awarded for her powerhouse partnership with her finance team in developing programs grounded in experience, exposure, empowerment, and education, proving that people success really is business success. 

Sending a heartfelt congratulations to all of our winners — you inspire us every day with your commitment to building great cultures and empowering your people. 

Got an award-worthy HR team of your own? 2026 nominations will open in a few months, so start crafting your nominations and stay tuned.