AI-powered Employee Experience platform recognized for innovations that help organizations act on employee feedback to improve retention, productivity, and performance
TEMECULA, Calif., April 23, 2025 — Perceptyx, the global leader in employee listening and action for a better workplace, has received a Gold Stevie® Award for its Activate solution in the American Business Awards’® Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Solution category.
Activate by Perceptyx is the first software to help businesses bridge the gap between knowing what employees need and doing something about it. Powered by AI and informed by research from Perceptyx’s Center for Workforce Transformation, Activate encourages positive behaviors and habit formation at every level of the organization so true change can happen.
Activate builds on the innovations of workplace behavioral science pioneer Humu, which Perceptyx acquired in 2023. The integration of Humu’s behavioral science with Perceptyx’s AI technology has created a powerful solution that leverages employee feedback to drive meaningful, organization-wide outcomes such as improved retention, team productivity, and financial performance.
Key innovations of Activate include:
- AI-Assisted Action Planning: Streamlines the development of targeted action plans, ensuring they are strategically aligned and easy to implement.
- Intelligent Nudging: Delivers science-based, personalized habit-forming suggestions to managers and employees in the flow of work, based on Nobel Prize-winning research. All nudges are delivered within the flow of work (for example, Microsoft Teams, Slack, email, or, for deskless workers, wherever makes the most sense in the context of their work), making them easy to adopt.
- AI Coach: A conversational AI solution powered by LLM technology and behavioral science delivers precise, contextualized guidance tied to each manager’s unique team dynamics.
- Real-time Adaptation: Ensures all nudges remain relevant as situations evolve and new feedback is received, supporting continuous improvement and allowing managers to adjust their action plans easily as priorities shift.
- Impact Metrics: Tracks the impact of behavioral change and program engagement, providing clear, actionable metrics that demonstrate organizational growth and impact.
“The consistent struggle we hear from customers is the challenge of turning EX insights into measurable change and business impact, and that burden typically falls on overloaded managers to action plan in antiquated ways,” said Joe Freed, Chief Product Officer, Perceptyx. “Activate bridges the gap between listening and action with AI innovation that’s practical, precise, and transformative. We’re honored to receive this award — it reflects our team’s relentless commitment to innovating at the intersection of people science, technology, and real-world leadership — to make work better.”
“Organizations across the United States continue to demonstrate resilience and innovation,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Miller. “The 2025 Stevie winners have helped drive that success through their innovation, persistence, and hard work. We congratulate all of the winners in the 2025 ABAs and look forward to celebrating their achievements during our June 10 gala event in New York.”
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2025 Stevie winners are available here.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.