As employers move from experimenting with artificial intelligence to building AI capabilities across their workforces, NEQSOL Holding is putting employee upskilling at the center of its workforce strategy. The international group has received four 2026 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards, including Gold recognition for a program designed to prepare employees for wider AI adoption.
NEQSOL Holding has received four awards in the 2026 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards, spanning Future of Work, Human Resources, and Learning & Development categories.
The most notable recognition went to the company’s NEQSOL AI Upskilling Program, which received Gold in the AI and Future of Work category. The program takes a preskilling approach, giving employees practical AI knowledge before demand for those skills becomes a larger constraint on the business.
That distinction is becoming increasingly important for enterprise HR leaders. Companies are no longer considering AI solely as a technology investment; they are also confronting the workforce implications of deploying it. Employees need to understand how AI tools can be applied to their jobs, while organizations need mechanisms for continuously updating skills as technologies and workflows change.
For NEQSOL Holding, the AI program is designed around that challenge. Employees receive training intended to help them use AI tools in their existing roles, with the broader objective of improving productivity, supporting innovation and creating new opportunities for business value.
Moving from AI adoption to workforce readiness
The shift toward AI upskilling reflects a broader change in corporate learning and development.
Generative AI tools from companies such as Microsoft, Google and OpenAI are increasingly becoming part of everyday knowledge work. For HR departments, however, providing access to these tools is only one part of the adoption equation.
Organizations also have to determine which employees need which skills, how those skills should be developed and how learning programs connect to business priorities.
The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 estimates that 59% of workers will require training by 2030 because of changing workforce demands, while AI and information-processing technologies rank among the major forces reshaping jobs. The report also identifies AI and big data as the fastest-growing skill area.
That creates a stronger case for preskilling—developing capabilities before an organization reaches a critical skills shortage—rather than relying exclusively on retraining after technologies have already changed job requirements.
NEQSOL’s approach places AI capability within a wider learning ecosystem rather than treating it as an isolated technology initiative.
A broader corporate learning infrastructure
The four Brandon Hall recognitions cover more than AI. They reflect NEQSOL Holding’s wider investment in professional development, workforce transformation, social-impact initiatives and continuous learning.
The company’s learning infrastructure is centered on NEQSOL Academy, a digital learning environment offering personalized learning, mentoring, coaching and professional-development programs.
In 2026, the organization also launched SkillHub, an open learning platform within NEQSOL Academy. It provides free access to courses covering artificial intelligence, digital transformation, business, leadership, communication and personal development.
That combination points toward an increasingly common direction in enterprise HR technology: learning platforms are evolving from repositories of training content into broader workforce capability systems.
The distinction matters for a diversified organization such as NEQSOL Holding, which operates across energy, telecommunications, technology, construction and mining. Different business units can have very different technology requirements, meaning a centralized learning strategy has to accommodate multiple skill profiles rather than impose a single training model.
NEQSOL Holding operates in 11 countries, serves more than 25 million customers and employs more than 20,000 people, according to the company.
Why AI upskilling is becoming an HR priority
The challenge for HR leaders is not simply getting employees to complete AI courses. Effective workforce transformation requires connecting learning to actual job responsibilities.
An employee using AI for document analysis needs a different capability set from a software engineer building AI-enabled applications or a manager redesigning a workflow around automation.
This is where enterprise learning platforms increasingly intersect with workforce analytics, talent management and skills intelligence.
Platforms from Workday, SAP, Oracle and LinkedIn are similarly expanding their focus on skills, learning and AI-supported workforce management.
NEQSOL’s program takes a more organization-specific route, using internal learning infrastructure to build AI capabilities across its workforce.
Meric Tunc, Chief Human Capital Officer at NEQSOL Holding, said the awards reflect the company’s continuing investment in future-ready skills, leadership development and a culture of continuous learning.
The company was also named a 2026 BEST Award winner by the Association for Talent Development earlier this year, further highlighting its enterprise-wide approach to talent and leadership development.
The enterprise lesson: AI transformation is also a people strategy
The growing number of AI initiatives inside large companies has created a new responsibility for HR departments. They increasingly have to help determine not only which AI technologies an organization adopts, but whether its workforce is prepared to use them effectively.
NEQSOL Holding’s recognition illustrates that shift. Its AI Upskilling Program treats workforce capability as a prerequisite for technology adoption rather than an afterthought.
For enterprise teams, that model has practical implications. AI training needs to be connected to business workflows, supported by accessible learning infrastructure and refreshed as tools evolve. Leadership development also becomes important as managers take responsibility for redesigning jobs and processes around AI.
The larger trend is clear: corporate learning is moving closer to the center of digital transformation.
The organizations most likely to capture value from AI may not simply be those deploying the most advanced models. They may be those that can systematically translate new technology into skills, workflows and organizational behavior.
NEQSOL’s latest awards put that workforce transformation strategy in the spotlight.
Market Landscape
AI is changing the role of corporate learning from a support function into a strategic component of workforce transformation.
The World Economic Forum estimates that 59% of workers will need training by 2030 as technology and other structural changes reshape employment. It also identifies AI and big data as the fastest-growing skills.
At the enterprise level, the market is consequently moving toward skills-based workforce management, where learning, talent planning and AI adoption are increasingly connected.
The competitive landscape includes learning platforms, HCM suites and specialist skills technologies. Microsoft, Google, Workday, SAP, Oracle and LinkedIn are all participating in different parts of this ecosystem.
For large multinational employers, the challenge is particularly complex. They need scalable learning systems that can operate across geographies and business units while maintaining relevance to specific roles.
NEQSOL Academy and SkillHub demonstrate one response: combine enterprise learning with open access to emerging technology and professional skills. The longer-term test will be whether these programs can translate course participation into measurable improvements in workforce capability, productivity and internal mobility.
Top Insights
- NEQSOL Holding won four 2026 Brandon Hall HCM awards, including Gold for an AI upskilling program focused on practical workforce readiness.
- The AI program reflects a shift from technology deployment toward preskilling employees before emerging technologies reshape workflows and job requirements.
- NEQSOL Academy and SkillHub create a broader learning ecosystem spanning AI, digital transformation, leadership, communication and professional development.
- The company’s multinational workforce highlights the challenge of scaling AI learning across different industries, roles, geographies and business requirements.
- Enterprise HR teams increasingly need to connect learning platforms with skills strategy, workforce planning and AI transformation rather than treating training as a standalone function.
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