FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Brendan Gannon
Senior Marketing Manager, Awards Programs
Ragan Communications
[email protected]
Ragan’s 2026 Employee Communications Awards Now Accepting Entries
The annual awards program honors outstanding internal communications, employee engagement, employee experience and workplace culture work. Finalists will be recognized, and winners announced, at a live event in spring 2027.
Entry Deadline: October 9, 2026
Late Deadline: October 16, 2026
Chicago, IL — July 22, 2026 — Ragan Communications is now accepting entries for its 2026 Employee Communications Awards, an annual recognition program honoring the campaigns, channels, programs, teams and professionals that help employees understand what matters, navigate change and stay connected to their organizations.
Ragan’s Employee Communications Awards celebrate outstanding work across internal communications, employee engagement, employee experience and workplace culture. The program is open to in-house communications teams, agencies, independent practitioners and vendors working with corporate, nonprofit and government organizations worldwide.
“Employee communicators are often responsible for making the most important and complex moments inside an organization understandable,” said Brendan Gannon, director of marketing at Ragan Communications and PR Daily. “These awards recognize the people and teams whose work helped employees trust their leaders, connect business priorities to their roles and take informed action.”
The entry deadline is October 9, 2026. Learn more and enter here.
Categories reflect the broad range of work led by today’s employee communications professionals, including:
- Best Overall Intranet
- Business Strategy Communication
- Change Communication
- Employee Communications Campaign of the Year
- Employee Communications Professional of the Year
- Employee Communications Team of the Year
- Employee Engagement
- Employee Listening, Feedback & Insights
- Executive/Leadership Communication
- Frontline, Deskless or Hard-to-Reach Employee Communications
- Innovation in Internal Communications
- Internal Event Strategy
- Manager and People Leader Communication
- Workplace Culture
- AI Adoption, Governance & Workforce Readiness Communication
View the full list of categories here.
Entries may highlight work that clarified business strategy, supported employees during change, strengthened workplace culture, improved access to information, made leadership more visible, reached frontline teams or demonstrated the value of internal communications through meaningful results.
Entrants may submit work on behalf of themselves, a colleague, a team, an organization or a client. The same work may be entered in multiple categories, with each submission judged separately based on its goals, strategy, execution, creativity and results.
Finalists will be announced in advance of a live awards event in spring 2027. Winners will be revealed during the event and recognized across Ragan’s websites, newsletters and social channels. Category winners will also receive a trophy, digital winner badge, editorial coverage and materials to help share their recognition.
The standard entry deadline is October 9, 2026. The late deadline is October 16, 2026, but additional late fees apply to all entries received after October 9.
Review the categories, eligibility guidelines and submit entries here.
For entry questions, contact Barbara Kanady at [email protected].
For sponsorship opportunities, contact Morgan Einspanier at [email protected].
About Ragan Communications and PR Daily
Ragan Communications has been delivering trusted news, training and intelligence for more than 60 years to internal and external communicators, HR professionals and business leaders. Its daily news sites, PRDaily.com and Ragan.com, are read by more than 600,000 internal and external communicators monthly. Ragan’s Communications Leadership Council is one of the fastest-growing membership groups for communications executives, and its conferences, webinars and workshops are attended by more than 5,000 communicators a year. Ragan Training is the leading learning portal among communicators, offering more than 800 hours of training and development for communicators. Ragan is also the producer of Communications Week, which is held each November. Headquartered in Chicago, Ragan has team members spanning the country and loyal customers worldwide. Visit us at ragan.com.
