

#EmployeeExperienceAwards
24 June, Malaysia
Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel
Jalan Utara C, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 46200 (View Map)
Employee Experience Awards Key Dates

Celebrating excellence in EX leadership
After a resoundingly successful launch, the Employee Experience Awards returns for its second year to honour organisations that have excelled at focusing on employee experience to help retain and excite the best people, creating value and maintaining a competitive edge as they do so.
Since the start of the pandemic, employees have been grappling with the disruption to work – and the nature of work – which in turn has brought unprecedented levels of uncertainty, instability, and stress to their lives. At the same time, research has shown that a positive employee experience can yield 16 times the engagement of those reporting a negative experience, and 8 times the desire to want to stay with their company.
A win at the Employee Experience Awards is an important acknowledgement from the industry that your organisation is taking a lead in listening to, engaging and supporting your most valuable asset: its people.
With 33 enterable categories this year, the awards focus on three EX pillars: leadership, learning and employee engagement. The categories will celebrate stellar achievements that have successfully anchored the three elements and delivered workplace milestones.
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Make your mark where it matters most
This is a golden opportunity to showcase your hard work and efforts that have transformed your organisation to undertake an employee-centric approach.
Your organisation can apply for the 33 targeted categories that are aimed at highlighting how you adapted and responded to the current pandemic. Specifically, our accolades will recognise the stellar achievements that have reinforced strategic leadership development, boosted integrated learning, and increased employee engagement.
What’s new in 2022?
Best Remote Learning Initiative
Best Response to Covid-19
You have until 11 April 2022 to complete and submit your entries.
Why Enter EXA 2022

Stay ahead of the talent war

Catalyse your employer branding efforts

Better business outcomes and improved performance

Deliver stakeholder confidence
Make sure your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed and your teams get the recognition they deserve!
Entries will close on 11 April 2022 so start your entries today!
Judging Criteria
Here are some guiding pointers that judges will be looking out for. Please ensure your entry answers the points below for the various sections along with the guiding pointers in the respective categories.
Business challenge
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- Provide the context of your industry and include the brief background/overview of your company.
- Include information that demonstrates the implications of the business challenges faced.
- What were your initial plan/business opportunities you were looking to pursue?
- How has the challenge(s) pivoted your vision, goal and mission of your HR strategy?
- What was the company’s overall direction? What kind of support did you get from your top management and line-of-business managers to overcome the challenge?
- What are some innovative and/or new ideas proposed when brainstorming solutions to tackle the challenge(s)?
- What is the expected business ROI from the proposed changes?
- Please include some testimonials from peers/senior management/clients.
Transformation strategy
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- What did you do to transform your business? What were the key objectives?
- Outline the milestones in your strategy highlighting what worked and what didn’t work. How did you solve the issues that cropped up along the way when you were executing your strategy?
- Who were your key stakeholders and what channels did you use to communicate the strategy to them? How did you maintain continued support from key stakeholders? What was the acceptance rate?
- What are some of the USP’s of your transformation strategy? How does this align with your organisational goals? Please include some testimonials.
Impact
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- What were the primary and secondary results of your strategy? How did your plan affect your organisational culture and goals?
- What business and commercial benefits did your transformation strategy deliver?
- What was the feedback from your stakeholders?
- How did you track the ROI of your impact?
- Please provide some evidence of success. You may use metrics, anecdotes and case studies.
- Please include some testimonials from peers/senior management/clients. Feel free to include graphs, charts that will strengthen your business case.
Learning points
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- Please identify the top 3 key takeaways from your transformation strategy.
- What were some gaps in your strategy?
- What are the strengths that form the foundation of your strategy?
- What are the future plans that you have in place to further boost this?
- What are some elements of the strategy that you think is unique to your organisation?
- Please include some testimonials from peers/senior management/clients. Feel free to include graphs, charts that will strengthen your business case.
Panel of Judges
The Employee Experience Awards will be evaluated at the highest standards by the most eminent senior HR experts and thought leaders. These hand-picked individuals are committed to giving your entries all the dedication they need in order to sieve out the finest HR teams and leaders who have transformed the world of EX.
Interested in becoming a judge yourself, or would you like to nominate someone? Reach out to Shan Ee at shanee@humanresourcesonline.net or +65 6423 0329.

Syukri Sudari
Chief People Officer
AFFIN Bank

Shaun Perumal
Chief Human Resource Officer
AMAZIN' GRAZE

Azaharin Abd Latiff
SVP Group HR

Jack Lim
Head of Human Resources
AmGeneral Insurance

Pearl Wong
Head of Strategic Initiatives, Employee Experience and Talent Acquisition

Yap Yoke Wah
Head of Regional Talent Acquisition & Development, APAC

Shu Tze Yuh
Head, Talent & People Transformation

Subash Chander Ganapathy
Head of Human Resources

Zacharias Rajagopal
Vice President- Human Resources
Bumi Armada

Shem Wei Jee
Head of Human Resources

Cheryl Lim
Regional Head, People Strategy & Culture
CIMB Group

Zubair Raffiq
Talent & Development Director

Monique Yong
Group Chief Human Resources Officer

Sobia Fayyaz
Head Return on Experiences

Kundan Kumar
HR Country Head

Vic Sithasanan
Managing Director
JobStreet Malaysia

Tony Liu
Regional HR Head

Ng Eng Hooi
Head, Learning & Development
Lotuss Stores Malaysia

Reuben Rethinalingam
Head of HR Performance Operations ASIA/MENA/LATM
Mercedes-Benz Malaysia

Kua Kee Tui
Head of Human Resources
Mizuho Bank (Malaysia)

M Bakhtiar M Pahroraji
Head, Group Human Resource
MSM Malaysia Holdings

Jevan Nambyar
Head of People & Development

Ilango Santhana
Director, People & Organization SEA
PUMA

Tracy Anne Yap
Head of HR

Pauline Ng
Head of HR

Izzat Jamal
Head, People & Transformation

Puven Nalatambi
Vice President of Group Human Resources

Dr. Jessica Tang
Head of Talent Development, Group Human Resources
Top Glove

Yap Hsu Yi
Chief – People & Culture
Tune Protect Group
Don’t take our word for it. Hear what past award participants of HRO’s Awards have to say:
It is an enjoyable and fun-filled event where you get excited over the announcement of the winners of the awards.
Bank of Singapore
HR Excellence Awards is really professional and is the leading awards for the HR community.
Heineken Asia Pacific
It was a moment to take a pause and show our appreciation to those HR folks who added value to other human beings and to their business.
UTAC Group
Thanks for having me as a judge. I truly enjoyed reading the many submissions and noted the level of enthusiasm and involvement of the participants in building their company culture.
Paramount Corporation
Thank you for having me in your event. Not only was the dinner delicious, the whole evening was great. It was an enormous privilege that I be given the opportunity to be part of the panel judges.
Protasco
The pleasure to judge the entries was all mine. Thanks again for the wonderful opportunity and networking.
Segi Value Holdings
I think this is a very prestigious award and it is also a platform for us to share our best practices.
AXA Life Singapore
This year we are ready to share our practices and we’re very proud and excited to actually share what we have done.
SCOR Singapore
I think this is one of the most important at HR, to attract and retain talent. So that is why we want to project ourselves in the market and also to see where we are standing, compared to the leaders in the market.
DKSH
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