{"id":44634,"date":"2023-02-28T10:15:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T10:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/articles\/totara-announces-the-winners-of-the-2020-totara-awards\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T09:56:09","slug":"totara-announces-the-winners-of-the-2020-totara-awards","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/articles\/totara-announces-the-winners-of-the-2020-totara-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Totara announces the winners of the 2020 Totara awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class='inline-text-container MobileAlignment DesktopAlignment'>\n  <div class='richText'><p class=\"lead large\">The 2020 awards reflect the adaptability of the Totara platform in\u00a0enabling organizations to rapidly implement critical learning technology to support employees during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brighton, UK, January 26, 2020 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Totara, a leading provider of enterprise learning, engagement and performance management technology, today announced the winners of the 2020 Totara Awards. The Totara Awards recognize the most innovative, inspiring and successful implementations of Totara\u2019s products.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Lars Hyland, Totara\u2019s Chief Learning Officer, and Lori Niles-Hofmann, Senior EdTech Transformation Strategist at NilesNolen, the 2020 awards saw an influx of entries relating to platforms created to support employees throughout COVID-19. With Totara, organizations were able to rapidly adapt their existing and new learning solutions to deliver life-saving learning worldwide. 2020 also saw the launch of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/talent-experience-platform-txp\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"ae986999-da9c-4351-b1ac-f00e8232d857\">Totara\u2019s Talent Experience Platform<\/a>, comprising\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/resources\/totara-learn\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"cc27e042-e65c-4557-8379-2643e3bdcc0f\">Totara Learn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/totara-engage\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"ffe4c8df-9537-4f19-9315-98644b74237e\">Totara Engage<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/resources\/totara-perform\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"af0303bf-a392-4f6b-9fe8-4742697a313d\">Totara Perform<\/a>, offering organizations more options than ever before to create adaptable learning and people management solutions.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s project winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Business Services Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/events\/behind-the-scenes-of-deloitte-accountancys-movie-themed-lms\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"e25f1abf-44f9-49ab-8a45-5f08419eb3bb\">Deloitte Accountancy\/The Client<\/a>\u00a0by Deloitte Belgium<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Education &amp; Training Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/?post_type=customer-story&#038;p=31994\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"85a14cb6-3880-43ca-a0a2-fca8a18e775e\">BeReady<\/a>\u00a0by Accipio<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Finance &amp; Insurance Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/western-union\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"a307c102-0402-4af1-9d0c-a5cd6a1a57d6\">Western Union<\/a>\u00a0by Synergy Learning<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><strong>Highly commended: <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/?post_type=customer-story&#038;p=31677\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"d09131d7-99bc-4821-81fe-eee8cd26d472\">Banco Santander<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><strong>\u00a0by Glow Chile<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Government Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/nottinghamshire-fire-rescue-service\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"306cd2d9-a7bf-4684-8271-73ca03f08729\">Nottinghamshire Fire &amp; Rescue Service<\/a>\u00a0by Synergy Learning<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Healthcare Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/istituto-superiore-di-sanita-national-health-institute-upscaled-their-lms-by-more\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"ff84a80b-7c51-4cb9-a24c-96a870979e58\">Istituto Superiore di Sanit\u00e0 (ISS)<\/a>\u00a0by Media Touch<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Hospitality &amp; Travel Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/sharjah-commerce-tourism-development-authority-sctda\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"53d20dce-90ff-415d-97bf-37010b808650\">Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority<\/a>\u00a0by Human Logic<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Manufacturing Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/etex-building-performance\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"63157c65-4fc8-4adf-984c-aa4b1f123749\">Etex Building Performance<\/a>\u00a0by Chambury Learning Solutions<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Highly commended:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/watts-water-tech\/\">Watts Water Technologies<\/a>\u00a0by Kineo US<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Non-profit Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/national-anti-doping-agency-austria-nada\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"3f5025d9-7351-4e09-ad2a-45d713ea9acb\">National Anti Doping Agency<\/a>\u00a0by LearnChamp<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Retail Project \u2013\u00a0Kmart\u00a0by Catalyst AU<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Highly commended:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/?post_type=customer-story&#038;p=31614\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"1023c810-4e56-405c-baed-26297b404685\">Holland &amp; Barrett<\/a>\u00a0by Hubken Group<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Sport &amp; Lifestyle Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/afl-coaches-association\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"2b6143ea-f7aa-4cbf-a346-a6391e74d73d\">AFL Coaches Association<\/a>\u00a0by Androgogic<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Technology &amp; Media Project \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/glovo-delivers-targeted-training-to-a-growing-global-workforce\/\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"0ca6b1b5-eb76-4c52-a120-3a8c0df40bde\">Glovo<\/a>\u00a0by Actua Solutions<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The overall winners of the Totara Partner awards are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Global Partner of the Year \u2013\u00a0Catalyst IT<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Top Seller APAC \u2013\u00a0Androgogic<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Top Seller Americas \u2013\u00a0Kineo<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Top Seller EMEA \u2013\u00a0Think Learning<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Global Partner of the Year, Catalyst IT, is one of Totara\u2019s founding partners. Catalyst IT was selected for this coveted award based on its commitment to best practice software maintenance as well as their excellent customer service. Catalyst IT has contributed code to the core Totara product offering and has extensive experience in creating large-scale sites for 20,000+ users. Catalyst has entities in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, giving them excellent global coverage. Some of their key customers include multiple New Zealand government departments including the\u00a0Ministry of Justice,\u00a0Department of Internal Affairs\u00a0and the\u00a0Customs Service, along with organizations such as the\u00a0Humanitarian Leadership Academy,\u00a0British Dental Association,\u00a0New Zealand Family Planning\u00a0and\u00a0Kmart.<\/p>\n<p>Androgogic is a long-standing recipient of Totara\u2019s Top Seller APAC award, with customers such as\u00a0Tennis Australia, the\u00a0Australian Football League\u00a0and the\u00a0Law Society of New South Wales. Kineo US serves customers such as\u00a0US Beef,\u00a0City Electric Supply\u00a0and\u00a0Watts Water Tech, while Think Learning specializes in learning management systems for the high-consequence industries such as healthcare, with customers including many NHS trusts,\u00a0The Doctors Laboratory\u00a0and\u00a0Hampshire Trust Bank.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lars Hyland said: \u201cReviewing the Totara Awards submissions this year has been particularly humbling and impressive. Our community of partners and customers around the world have demonstrated that the flexibility and adaptability of the Totara platform facilitates a rapid and positive response to dramatic change. I would like to thank all of those who entered and while not everyone can be a winner this time around, there are some exciting prospects for next year. Thank you also to Lori Niles-Hofmann who assisted in the judging process.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lori Niles-Hofmann said: \u201cThis year I was completely blown away by the herculean efforts undertaken by L&amp;D teams around the world to support their businesses and employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything from scaling traffic from a couple of thousand to hundreds of thousands of users, to reimagining the learning experience to accommodate fresh volunteers to supporting experts and every learner in-between. These were stories of learning strategy done right and with purpose. This is worth celebrating.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The project award winners will receive a waka (a M\u0101ori canoe) award made from reclaimed genuine Totara wood, and will have the opportunity to participate in a series of Totara Community webinars over the next year to demonstrate their award-winning work to the Totara network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Totara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Totara builds employee engagement, learning, and performance management technologies that enable large multinational corporations, government entities, and mid-market companies to deliver enterprise-level talent and workforce experiences. Totara\u2019s Talent Experience Platform unifies a transformational learning management system (LMS), a user-centric learning experience platform (LXP), and a comprehensive performance management system under a single and highly adaptable architecture. Totara\u2019s flexible architecture gives organizations the freedom to innovate, the freedom to choose, and unlocks critical resources for reinvestment into where it really counts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedded-entity\" data-embed-button=\"media_entity_image\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.full_width\" data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"0fee33ef-1381-4d67-8dae-951de7c2dd26\" data-langcode=\"en-US\">\n<div class=\"media media--type-image media--view-mode-full-width ds-1col clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.totara.sparksi.co\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-01\/Totara-Awards-Winner-Graphics-2020_Teaser-image.jpg\" alt=\"Totara Awards 2020 graphic\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n  <\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","tax\/tags":[],"tax\/solutions":[],"tax\/topics":[],"tax\/industries":[],"tax\/article-types":[],"class_list":["post-44634","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/44634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/tags?post=44634"},{"taxonomy":"solution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/solutions?post=44634"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/topics?post=44634"},{"taxonomy":"industry-tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/industries?post=44634"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax\/article-types?post=44634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}