Hi Asana Community,
We’re thrilled to announce the 15 winners of the 2026 Work Innovation Awards.
When we revealed the top 40 finalists earlier this month, we saw an incredible range of organizations rethinking how teams collaborate, automate, and deliver results. Today, we’re recognizing 15 winners across five award categories for Global, Americas (AMER), and EMEA regions.
Work Innovation Leader Award
Global Winner: FedEx — Implemented AI-powered marketing demand intake and governance workflows, delivering $200K+ in annual savings while accelerating strategic decision-making and execution.
AMER Winner: Aetna, a CVS Health Company — Scaled their Medicaid Strategic PMO from 15 to 60+ members with 9 AI-powered capabilities, driving a 13x ROI ($596,230 in cost avoidance) in just four months.
EMEA Winner: COS — Transformed a 14-hour manual campaign setup into an AI Studio-powered workflow, slashing errors by 60% and unlocking nearly 3,000 hours of annual capacity.
Industry Transformation Award
- Global Winner: The Weather Company, LLC — Built a centralized, AI-powered content tagging system that shifted from reactive to predictive publishing, reclaiming 360+ hours annually.
- AMER Winner: Keystone Law Group, P.C. — Replaced paper-based legal workflows with a custom API integration into Asana, saving $1.18 million annually.
- EMEA Winner: REWE Markt GmbH — Digitized national portfolio management, transforming a six-hour manual reporting process into a five-minute strategic review.
AI Breakthrough Award
- Global Winner: HubSpot — Built an innovative AI Studio workflow that automatically analyzes task scope, cross-references complexity data, and instantly assigns Priority and Estimated Time. This AI-driven triage feeds directly into Asana Workload, saving the team up to 250 hours annually.
- AMER Winner: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) — Implemented a consolidated execution engine with Asana AI, unlocking marketers from manual administration and repetitive tasks, enabling teams to focus on high-value, high-impact work to help drive business results.
- EMEA Winner: Washmen — Deployed four AI Teammates for quality control, damage evaluation, and customer compensation, resolving complex claims 80-90% faster.
Impact Catalyst Award
- Global Winner: VSP Vision — Centralized event scheduling for their “Eyes of Hope” mobile clinics, expanding their footprint by 30% and delivering free eye care to over 8,000 underserved individuals.
- AMER Winner: Array Behavioral Care — Built an AI-enabled service desk that reduced support workload by 20% and saved over 1,300 hours per year.
- AMER Winner: SmartICE Monitoring & Information Inc. — Deployed a “Digital Ice Bridge” across 39 remote Arctic Indigenous communities, decreasing costs by 71% and ensuring reliable compensation for sea-ice safety workers.
AI Innovation Partner Award
- Global Winner: Indeed — Centralized operational and strategic change delivery into Asana, reducing manual ticket management by 42% and tripling creative output.
- AMER Winner: Clio — Used AI-assisted rule building as a beta pilot partner to cut campaign setup time from 2 hours to 30 minutes.
- EMEA Winner: FTMO s.r.o. — Built an autonomous AI triage system using AI Studio and AI Teammates, saving 670 deep-work engineering hours.
Congratulations to all 15 winners and the entire 2026 top 40 for their extraordinary contributions to work innovation.
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