Announcing the 2026 People Success Award Winners

Even the best HR programs would fall flat without the right people behind the curtain pulling the strings. At Lattice, we believe that people teams deserve to be celebrated and recognized for their work behind the scenes. 

That’s why we created our annual People Success Awards, which highlight innovative Lattice customers who are redefining what great people leadership looks like — strengthening culture, driving engagement, and enabling employees to do their best work.

Join us in congratulating the award winners for each category below: 

Talent Advancement Award

Recognizes organizations that invest in meaningful career growth and long-term talent development to build the next generation of leaders.

• San Francisco Winner: SAC Health
  After launching Lattice through a hands-on “Growth Lab,” SAC Health introduced 1:1s and Feedback, reached 70% participation in their Engagement Survey, and used employee input to reshape Performance Reviews into two-way “Performance Enhancement Conversations.” 
  
  Now, with Lattice Grow and Lattice Goals & OKRs, they are creating a stronger foundation for employee voice, career development, and operational visibility across its fast-growing healthcare workforce.
  

Leadership in Action Award

Recognizes organizations that equip managers to foster strong team habits that drive performance, growth, and accountability.

• San Francisco Winner: ActivTrak
  
  ActivTrak’s remote-first model gives employees flexibility, but it also requires intentional systems for connection and accountability. 
  
  With Lattice, ActivTrak’s small people team created a shared foundation for manager habits, including recurring one-on-ones, feedback, and performance reviews. The result is a more consistent leadership experience across a distributed workforce, supported by:
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  • 75% recurring one-on-one adoption
    
  • 67% feedback participation
  • 99% performance review completion
  • 91% engagement survey participation
  • 60+ eNPS
    

Performance Impact Award

Recognizes organizations whose people strategy directly impacts business performance and drives lasting success.

• San Francisco Winner: Pitchbook
  
  Pitchbook shifted from simply measuring their performance process completion to driving impact. Using Lattice, they embedded values and competencies into performance reviews to discuss both what work was accomplished and how it was done, connecting performance conversations to feedback, development, and business alignment.
  
  The results? Review completion rates rose from 65% to over 90% in a single quarter, 80% of employees say they receive useful feedback from their manager, and 77% say that feedback helps them improve their performance.
  

People + AI Pioneer Award

Recognizes organizations leading the responsible use of AI to drive smarter decisions, greater efficiency, and stronger performance outcomes.

• San Francisco Winner: Vendasta
  
  Vendasta’s people leaders knew AI adoption would require more than new tools or one-off training. To help employees use AI safely and effectively, the People Operations team built an AI operating model grounded in mindset, skills, and structure.
  
  With Lattice, Vendasta connects AI work to OKRs, employee sentiment, and business outcomes. Since launching its AI literacy journey, general AI literacy has risen from 65% to 78%. Almost 10% of employees are certified AI workflow builders, helping the company reclaim over 20,000 work hours to date and tracking toward saving 300,000 work hours by the end of 2026.
  

• San Francisco Winner: Macmillan Learning
  
  Kristin and the people team were early adopters of Lattice AI, and already have 13% of managers using the AI Agent. Since enabling the agent across the company in 2025, the people team is leveraging AI Agent for supporting employees’ professional growth, building out robust skills assessments, and setting long term goals for the future, showing the versatility and creativity of people and AI succeeding together.  
  
  

People Success Visionaries of the Year

Recognizes an outstanding people leader who aligns people strategy to business strategy and drives measurable results — equipping managers, clarifying goals, and building performance practices that move the business forward.

• San Francisco Winner: Jasmyn Pearl, Senior Talent Programs Manager at Xactly
  
  Jasmyn unified a global workforce around a new OKR framework and helped 94% of employees understand how their work contributes to company success. She also drove adoption through creative campaigns that generated hundreds of organic feedback exchanges in just two months and led to a 24% voluntary opt-in rate for Lattice Grow during the initial rollout.
  
  Rather than simply implementing HR software, she built a roadmap for a high-performance culture where employees are aligned, empowered, and developing professionally.
  

Lattichamp of the Year

Recognizes an HR leader who has partnered with Lattice through references, product feedback, event participation, and product betas to help drive innovation that supports HR teams everywhere.

• San Francisco Winner: Steven Pham, Senior Talent Management Partner at LiveRamp
  
  As a Lattice power user, Steven earned this award for playing an integral part in the beta testing group for Lattice’s Workday integration. His efforts to share feedback and improve the user experience helped Lattice level up the integration for all Lattice customers. In addition, Steven allowed us to share his successes as a featured customer in our keynote, helping bring Lattice’s magic to life for our live audience at Lattiverse. As if that wasn’t enough, he hosted a session for Lattice customers, called "How LiveRamp Built an AI-Enabled People System That Delivers.” Steven’s commitment to helping other people succeed through education and storytelling exemplifies Lattice’s mission of putting people first.
  

Got an award-worthy HR team of your own? 2027 nominations will open in a few months, so start crafting your nominations and stay tuned.