Speexx Secures Gold in the 2025 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards
The recognition highlights how Speexx successfully brings together expert-led learning and AI-enabled support to deliver scalable people development.
Munich, Germany, December 16, 2025 – Speexx, the leading people development platform for global enterprises, has been awarded Gold in the Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology category at the 2025 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards. The recognition highlights how Speexx successfully brings together expert-led learning and AI-enabled support to deliver scalable people development.
The winning entry, People Development at Scale – Powered by AI, underscores the strength and maturity of the Speexx platform, as recognized by the Brandon Hall Group for its precision, intelligence, and measurable impact on talent development.
This Gold award marks an important milestone in the growing momentum behind the Speexx people development platform, as organizations around the world increasingly integrate human-led learning with AI-supported services to upskill their people, accelerate capability building, and create more resilient workforces.
Raising the Bar for AI-Driven People Development
Speexx was commended for its advanced, end-to-end platform that delivers expert-led people development at scale, spanning areas such as Language Training, Business Coaching, strategic Mentoring, and Intercultural Training. ‘Speexx Talk™ serves as the platform-wide AI communication layer, unifying human-led services with AI-enabled intelligence guiding users, personalizing development pathways, and giving organizations clear visibility into progress and impact.
With adaptive learning pathways, real-time recommendations, intelligent analytics, and seamless coaching workflows built in, Speexx helps HR and L&D teams provide personalized learning experiences across regions, roles, and business needs.
The award-winning entry demonstrates how Speexx is redefining the learning journey from a static process to an intelligent, data-driven system that continuously adapts to the individual while supporting the wider strategic goals of the organization.
“This Gold award is a powerful recognition of the work our customers and our team put in every day,” said Armin Hopp, Founder of Speexx.
“It shows that meaningful innovation in people development depends on technology that is both powerful and human. Our AI-supported approach isn’t about shortcuts. It’s about enabling real progress for every learner, giving them the support they need, when they need it, and helping organizations build skills that actually move the business forward.”
A Smarter Way to Develop Global Workforces
Speexx supports access to high-quality training, mentoring and coaching across global organizations through AI-enabled platform-wide capabilities such as Speexx Talk™, AI Coaching and Speexx Matchmaker™.
The platform has been widely praised for its intuitive design, high user adoption, and the meaningful improvement it brings to workforce readiness, internal mobility, and organizational capability.
HR leaders consistently highlight the ability of Speexx to deliver quality people development at scale, while empowering learners with autonomy, relevance, and immediate value.
Independent Evaluation and Industry Leadership
Entries to the Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards are reviewed by veteran industry analysts and senior experts using rigorous evaluation criteria, including organizational need, design and functionality, innovation, and measurable benefits.
This year’s judging panel highlighted Speexx for its strong alignment with organizational needs, the practical application of AI in support of human-led people development, and the measurable learning and performance outcomes seen across its global customer base.
About Brandon Hall Group™
Brandon Hall Group™ is the home of the HCM Excellence Awards®, widely regarded as the most respected awards program in the fields of Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Human Resources, Sales Performance, and Technology. For more than three decades, Brandon Hall Group™ has provided research, insights, and benchmarking to support millions of employees and leaders worldwide. Its awards programs recognize the organizations and solution providers who are shaping the future of human capital management.