SAN FRANCISCO - TelAve -- Reworked (https://www.reworked.co), the leading employee experience community brought to you by Simpler Media Group (SMG), today announced the full list of 2026 Reworked IMPACT Award recipients across seven categories.

This year, to better recognize the distinct work being done across technology and workplace culture, Reworked split its previous Employee Experience Leader of the Year award into two categories: Workplace Culture Leader of the Year and Workplace Technology Leader of the Year.

Reworked's 2026 Workplace Culture Leader of the Year is Kathryn (Katie) Turner-Carr, Senior HR Executive, (former) Senior Vice President, HR Strategy and Org Effectiveness.

Finalists receiving honorable mention in the Workplace Culture Leader of the Year category include Naomi Shammas-King, Internal Communications Lead at Oyster, and Jack Win, Co-founder & Head of Operations at Exverus by Brainlabs.

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Reworked's 2026 Workplace Technology Leader of the Year is Saju Sadasivan, Founder & Managing Director, StrategySphere Consulting, Ex-Roche Knowledge Management Leader.

Finalists receiving honorable mention in the Workplace Technology Leader of the Year category include Kelly Wyatt, Chief Digital Officer for GM Financial, and Mithilesh Koyghadi, Digital Head at Teamlease Edtech.

Reworked also announced winners in the Employee Journey Innovation practitioner category, which honors team-based achievements in improving the employee experience. The 2026 winners are:

• Gold: CVS Health, Digital Workplace Operations & Engineering
• Silver: TIAA, Workforce Modernization

In addition to the practitioner category, Reworked recognized winners across several vendor categories. These categories honor vendors for the strength of their products, platforms and solutions, as well as the impact delivered for their clients.

The 2026 vendor award winners are:

• Best Innovation in Employee Engagement (Gold): Sociabble
• Best Innovation in Employee Engagement (Silver): NICE
• Best use of AI in Employee Experience (Gold): Perceptyx
• Best use of AI in Employee Experience (Silver): Betterworks
• Excellence in Intranet & Communications Platforms (Gold): MangoApps
• Excellence in Intranet & Communications Platforms (Silver): Omnia Digital Workplace
• Excellence in Work Management & Project Management (Gold): Time Doctor
• Excellence in Work Management & Project Management (Silver): ActivTrak

Winners were selected from a pool of qualified nominees, including employee experience leaders, teams and vendors that delivered impactful employee experience initiatives over the past year. Judging was conducted by a panel of practitioners and industry specialists, led by Reworked Editor-in-Chief Siobhan Fagan. Winners selected based on information provided through the nomination process.

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Reworked congratulates all winners and finalists of this year's awards program. To learn more about the Reworked IMPACT Awards and to apply for the 2027 program, which opens in August 2026, visit https://www.simplermedia.com/impact-awards/reworked/.