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Another Award Finalist! Unilever's DigiOps and DigiEdge Programmes Continue to Impress
Another award nomination for Unilever's DigiOps and DigiEdge programmes! This time, Unilever has been shortlisted for the 2026 Centrical SELECT Skill Builder Award. Following two major wins at Gartner and Brandon Hall Group, and three Learning Technologies Awards nominations, it's another milestone in a remarkable two-year journey. We're proud of ParagonInc's role in growing the experience from one award-winning learning game to ten programmes reaching thousands of learners.
11/9/20262 min read
The awards keep coming! We're delighted to share that Unilever has been named a finalist in the Skill Builder category of the 2026 Centrical SELECT Awards, continuing a remarkable two years for the DigiOps and DigiEdge learning programmes.
This latest nomination follows a particularly successful 2026. Unilever's DigiOps programme won the Gartner Power of the Profession™ People Breakthrough of the Year award and Gold at the Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Awards® for Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program.
Unilever has also been shortlisted in three categories at the Learning Technologies Awards 2026, bringing the year's tally to two major wins and four further finalist nominations with winners yet to be announced.
Looking back over the past two years, we're especially excited for how far these programmes have come.
We started with one award-winning learning game. Today, ParagonInc designs and manages over ten gamified learning programmes, supporting thousands of employees in companies globally, across a growing range of AI, digital and business capabilities.
Each programme brings its own audience, learning objectives and challenges. We've worked closely with each company's teams to adapt the experience for each group, while continuing to improve the game mechanics, introduce new technology and find better ways for learners to practise and apply their skills.
It's been a tremendous amount of work, and seeing the programmes continue to grow and earn recognition has been hugely rewarding.
At ParagonInc, we've been responsible for designing, building and orchestrating the gamified experiences that support these programmes. For this Select Award, Unilever brought the learning content, expertise and ambition; we brought the game design, engagement strategy and day-to-day orchestration that help make it all work at scale.
Along the way, we've developed an approach that we're now taking to other organisations through Catalyst, our gamified capability-building solution.
The experience of running ten programmes has given us plenty of opportunities to learn what works, improve what doesn't and develop new capabilities, including AI-powered role-play simulations.
We're excited about what comes next, particularly as we begin planning new programmes for 2027.
Congratulations to the Unilever teams, subject-matter experts and learners who have helped make the past two years such a success.
The Centrical SELECT Awards winners will be announced in January 2027. Hopefully we'll have another win to celebrate!