Future of HR Awards
How to drive growth and build a great team in 2023 and beyond!
About the awards
The annual Future of HR Awards will honour southern Africa’s most outstanding, inspiring and effective leaders in human capital management, HR innovation and HR tech; highlighting their achievements for local and international peers to emulate and moving the industry forward. Featuring new awards categories and entry criteria updated in collaboration with our Advisory Panel of HR industry experts, the awards have been attracting enquiries months in advance from South Africa, neighbouring countries and even Asia.
Why Enter?
- Be seen as an HR champion and innovator
- Attract the best talent from interns to managerial level
- Network with the best in business
- Click with the latest digital advances in HR
- Gain the recognition you deserve
Don’t just take our word for it, though: received from past winner Candice Booysen of Argility – our Rising Star award recipient. She has since gone on to be nominated as a Finalist for the IPM HR Director of the Year Excellence Award and was recently recognised as one of the world’s 100 most influential HR professionals by the World HRD Congress in Mumbai.
Winners 2020
Nedbank
DHL Express
BMW SA
Ronald Abvajee – Healthy Living Consulting
Gilbarco AFS
Brigitte da Gama – McDonald’s South Africa
- BEST HEALTH AND WELLNESS STRATEGY
- HR Rising Star
- EMPLOYER OF CHOICE :SMALL TO MEDIUM
- EMPLOYER OF CHOICE: PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS
Healthy Living Consulting
Ilanda Els – Herbal Life Nutrition
DLK Group
EThekwini Municipality
Winners 2019
- EMPLOYER OF CHOICE: LARGE ORGANISATION
- BEST GRADUATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
- HR TEAM OF THE YEAR (+1000 EMPLOYEES)
Sponsored by
Unilever South Africa
Entelect Software
Nando’s
Healthy Living Consulting
Unilever South Africa
Angie Ontong – The Department of Trade & Industry
Oracle South Africa
Linda Cronje – Mediclinic Medforum
Aerobotics
- EMPLOYER OF CHOICE:PUBLIC SECTOR AWARD
- CEO OF THE YEAR
- HR CONSULTANCY OF THE YEAR
- HR RISING STAR OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by
National Housing Finance Corporation
Nico van der Westhuizen – Imperial Logistics
Swift Human Resources
Cindy Wiggins – ACG Fruit
Finalists 2019
- EMPLOYER OF CHOICE: LARGE ORGANISATION
- BEST GRADUATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
- HR TEAM OF THE YEAR (+1000 EMPLOYEES)
Sponsored by
Africa Biomass Company
CBRE GWS Facilities Management
Nando’s
Entelect Software
Imperial Logistics
Mundipharma
National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia
Pragma Holdings
Unilever South Africa
Boomtown Strategic Brand Agency
Entelect Software
Imperial Logistics
National Housing Finance Corporation
Turner & Townsend
Pragma Holdings
BOCRA
Automotive Industry Development Centre
National Treasury
National University of Lesotho
Nando’s
Imperial Logistics
Rand Water Board
Unilever South Africa
Right to Care
2U Inc
Healthy Living Consulting
Imperial Logistics
Nestle South Africa
Telesure Investment Holdings
Vacation Exchanges International t/a RCI
Edit Microsystems
Entelect Software
Global Business Solution
Imperial Logistics
Unilever South Africa
The Department of Trade & Industry
African Management Initiative
Andries Muller – Pernod Ricard South Africa
Jakes Doorsamy – Sanofi Aventis SA
Khanya Teresa Magudulela – Imperial Logistics
Lucia McMullan – Nando’s
Mechell Chetty – Unilever South Africa
Wayida Mohamed – Rand Water Board
Neo Selwe – TBWA
Candice Watson – British American Tobacco
Jasmin Pillay – Microsoft South Africa
Phumudzo Maboho – South African Qualification Authority
Angie Ontong – The Department of Trade & Industry
Tracey Rowe – Derivco
Xinglin Liu – Hisense SA
Stanley Chikwati – ZB Financial Holdings
Aspiration Software
Direct Hire Recruitment Software
Oracle South Africa
Petros Business Solutions
Placement Partners
PSIber Solutions
Vantage Data
Wyeztalk
Yellow Seed
Chantal Endemann – All Office Equipment
Christa Small – Imperial Logistics
Kareema Petersen – WNS Global Services
Linda Cronje – Mediclinic Medforum
Nomsa Ntshingila – National Housing Finance Corporation
Karen Scholtz – South African Heritage Resources Agency
Ntsako Mpenyana – Sun International
Lerato Rampa – Mpact
Creatrix
Dalitso Consulting
Leisuretrade Investment t/a Bon Hotel Bfn Central
Mobile Decisioning Africa
Qunu Staffing
Aerobotics
HR Company Solutions
- EMPLOYER OF CHOICE:PUBLIC SECTOR AWARD
- CEO OF THE YEAR
- HR CONSULTANCY OF THE YEAR
- HR RISING STAR OF THE YEAR
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