How to Activate Recognition Across Your Organization in the New Year
Dr. Alexander Lovell, Vice President, O.C. Tanner Institute and Mimi West, Director of Product Marketing, O.C. Tanner
January 20, 2026
January 20, 2026
12:00 pm
January 20, 2026
12:00 pm
January is the perfect time to energize your employee recognition strategy. Recognition doesn’t require a budget overhaul. We’ll show you exciting new ways to make it an accessible, consistent strategy that reaches everyone on your teams, including offline employees.
Discover tools to recognize service and retail teams, give managers fun ways to celebrate wins, and extend recognition beyond the office into mobile and offline spaces.
Walk away with actionable ideas to embed recognition into everyday moments and energize your culture for the year ahead. You will learn:
- What our research says about the measurable impact of recognition on the employee experience
- How to make recognition equitable and reach 100% of employees, including offline workers
- The latest developments in customer recognition, manager stores, and mobile and offline recognition
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A political sociologist with more than a decade’s worth of deep methodological, research, and practitioner experience, Dr. Alexander Lovell conducts extensive research on workplace culture, employee experience, and assessment methodologies for the O.C. Tanner Institute. He also curates the perspectives of more than 40,000 leaders and employees, revealing relevant workplace trends for the Institute’s annual Global Culture Report, which is informed by his research in field theory, inter-generational dynamics, and culture change.
His dynamic insights transform the cultures of numerous Fortune 100 and Global 2000 companies as he works to develop targeted culture assessment programs, predictive models, evaluation plans, and listening strategies that help people thrive at work. He finished his doctoral training at the University of Utah and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from American Military University.
A political sociologist with more than a decade’s worth of deep methodological, research, and practitioner experience, Dr. Alexander Lovell conducts extensive research on workplace culture, employee experience, and assessment methodologies for the O.C. Tanner Institute. He also curates the perspectives of more than 40,000 leaders and employees, revealing relevant workplace trends for the Institute’s annual Global Culture Report, which is informed by his research in field theory, inter-generational dynamics, and culture change.
His dynamic insights transform the cultures of numerous Fortune 100 and Global 2000 companies as he works to develop targeted culture assessment programs, predictive models, evaluation plans, and listening strategies that help people thrive at work. He finished his doctoral training at the University of Utah and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from American Military University.
Mimi West is the Director of Global Product Marketing at O.C. Tanner, where she champions innovations that elevate company culture, strengthen workplace wellbeing, and empower employees and leaders to thrive at work. With more than 16 years of business management experience across six continents, Mimi brings a global perspective that helps organizations connect with diverse workforces, adapt to cultural and geographic nuances, and foster a deep sense of belonging.
West's career reflects both strategic expertise and creative passion. She holds an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from Brigham Young University. This unique blend of business acumen and artistic training fuels her ability to inspire, communicate, and drive meaningful change in the workplace.
Mimi West is the Director of Global Product Marketing at O.C. Tanner, where she champions innovations that elevate company culture, strengthen workplace wellbeing, and empower employees and leaders to thrive at work. With more than 16 years of business management experience across six continents, Mimi brings a global perspective that helps organizations connect with diverse workforces, adapt to cultural and geographic nuances, and foster a deep sense of belonging.
West's career reflects both strategic expertise and creative passion. She holds an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from Brigham Young University. This unique blend of business acumen and artistic training fuels her ability to inspire, communicate, and drive meaningful change in the workplace.
O.C. Tanner is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
This Program has been pre-approved for 1 credit hour toward a PHR®, aPHRi™,PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).
