Cornerstone Honors the Catalysts of Talent Transformation with Cornerstone Galaxy™ Awards
Recognizing the teams turning workforce disruption into opportunity in 2025, the awards honor 17 organizations and leaders globally
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – April 28, 2026 – Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. -, a leader in workforce agility solutions, today announced the winners of the 2025 Cornerstone Galaxy™ Awards, honoring 17 organizations and leaders from across the globe who are at the forefront of talent transformation as AI reshapes the nature of work. Cornerstone Galaxy Award winners redefine what it means to build an adaptive workforce, leveraging Cornerstone solutions - to empower their people to learn, grow and thrive at the speed disruption demands.
According to Cornerstone’s 2026 Skills Economy Report -, the traditional separation between technical and “people” roles is collapsing, creating a new reality where modern work requires a 50-50 balance of technical and human skills. Even as demand for advanced AI and machine learning skills has surged by 245%, the value placed on distinctly human capabilities — personal judgment, adaptability, collaboration and critical thinking — has never been higher.
The Cornerstone Galaxy Award winners lead this transformation by building adaptive talent ecosystems powered by Cornerstone’s AI-driven skills intelligence -, connecting people to personalized learning, accelerated upskilling, and dynamic career mobility at every stage of their development.
From global enterprises to individual catalysts, this year’s winners span every corner of the world and a variety of industries, demonstrating that workforce readiness is an achievable goal for anyone, anywhere:
Excellence in AI-Driven Talent Strategy
- Aldar: Launched AI-powered career pathways and targeted leadership development programs leading to meaningful gains in internal mobility, significant reduction in critical skill gaps, and stronger employee satisfaction.
- Parexel: Built an AI digital worker that eliminated a critical training bottleneck and dramatically accelerated processing time, with the ability to scale as their clinical trial portfolio grows.
Excellence in Skills Transformation
- Moody’s: Drove organization-wide AI literacy by simplifying their training program and tying completion to compensation, ultimately surpassing their completion goals and empowering every employee to use AI responsibly.
- Nippon Sanso: Created enterprise-wide visibility and a more agile workforce across Southeast Asia and India by embedding leadership and safety capabilities into structured learning journeys.
- Survitec: Elevated their learning system into a capability-building engine with Cornerstone, launching a structured development framework that directly connected learning to business outcomes.
Excellence in Learning Innovation
- Generali: Unified learning for a global, multi-generational workforce through an AI-driven, mobile-first platform that increased engagement, exceeded learning hour targets, and identified critical future skills.
- GXO Logistics: Migrated from a manual legacy system to Cornerstone in six months, generating significant cost savings, stronger compliance, and a replicable blueprint for a global rollout.
- MGM China: Built a blended learning ecosystem that scaled training across a multilingual frontline workforce, substantially reducing training costs, and contributing to record business performance.
Excellence in Growth and Mobility
- Attijariwafa Bank: Replaced fragmented instructor-led training with a multilingual, AI learning ecosystem that achieved full user adoption delivered across 12 countries.
- LKQ: Consolidated HRIS systems into a unified platform, scaling learning across 20 countries while reducing administrative burden and improving the learner experience.
- Penske Australia: Replaced paper-based HR processes with Cornerstone, substantially reducing pay cycle times and boosting employee-driven learning.
HR Horizon
- Petra Koenig, Wieland-Werke: Drove a cross-site transformation using targeted learning paths, micro-trainings, and reporting dashboards that reduced errors, accelerated throughput, and created a replicable model now adopted across the organization.
- Henry Parsons, New South Wales Department of Customer Service: Built a unified digital HR platform for thousands of employees across multiple government clusters, greatly improving hiring speed, onboarding efficiency and platform engagement.
- Kathryn Harris, First Horizon Bank: Led an enterprise-wide talent platform implementation that drove strong voluntary adoption during a soft launch and built a robust skills data foundation for future talent decisions.
HR Visionary
- Ahmed Abu Safia, DP World: Consolidated regional learning platforms into a single system, democratizing access for employees across 11 regions with broad user adoption in just four months.
- Amanda Hughes, Early Childhood Management Services: Consolidated six people systems into a streamlined platform, meaningfully reducing turnover well below sector averages and making ECMS a model for sustainable digital transformation.
- Tulie White, Estée Lauder: Transformed the ELC Learning Hub into a global growth destination for employees in 30+ languages, developing hundreds of leaders and achieving near-universal platform utilization.
“Cornerstone Galaxy Award winners truly exemplify what it means to build a future-ready workforce,” said Mini Peiris, Cornerstone Chief Marketing Officer. “We are immensely proud to partner with each of these organizations and leaders as they put their people at the heart of innovation. Our customers foster cultures of continuous learning and upskilling that make their businesses stronger and more resilient, while inspiring their people to accomplish extraordinary things.”
To learn more about how Cornerstone customers deliver innovative talent strategies, check out the customer success stories in the Cornerstone Resource Corner -.
About the Cornerstone Galaxy™ Awards
The Cornerstone Galaxy Awards recognize organizations across the globe that have developed and implemented innovative, impactful approaches to using Cornerstone solutions — enhancing employee growth and driving business success. The 2025 awards span six categories central to the success of talent programs today: Excellence in Learning Innovation; Excellence in Growth & Mobility; Excellence in AI-Driven Talent Strategy; Excellence in Skills Transformation; HR Horizon; and HR Visionary.
About Cornerstone
Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy™, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. Approximately 7,000 organizations and 140 million users in 186 countries use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.
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