Grokker’s Lorna Borenstein Honored in the Herizon Awards 2026 for Driving HR Tech Transformation
Recognition honors women transforming individuals, teams, companies, industries, and the globe.
Grokker and Business Intelligence Group proudly announces that Lorna Borenstein, Founder and CEO, has been named in the 2026 Herizon Awards for driving transformation in the HR technology industry. Presented by the Business Intelligence Group, the award recognizes women who are changing how the world works. This marks Borenstein’s second consecutive year honored in the “Founder/Visionary” category.
This year, Borenstein was recognized for leading a structural shift across the employee benefits space to solve persistent benefit fragmentation and underutilization challenges. Traditionally, benefits information has been scattered across portals, vendor platforms, databases, and PDFs. These disconnects and navigation issues typically lead to employee frustration, overwhelmed HR teams, increased healthcare costs, and wasted benefits spend.
Borenstein transformed this paradigm by introducing AI-driven, conversational navigation directly into the benefits stack. She led the team in developing the GrokkyAi™ Intelligence Suite, an AI powered middleware layer that unifies fragmented HR data and benefits. It delivers instant, cited answers and real-time care guidance to employees in their moment of need, helping employees find and use available resources and maximizing benefits ROI.
"Lorna is transforming HR technology by turning a fragmented benefits maze into one conversational experience," said Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer, Business Intelligence Group. “Grokky’s suite helps employees reach the care and resources they need, right when they need them.”
The 2026 Herizon Awards honors 57 winners across five nominee roles and four countries, spotlighting women whose leadership has moved individuals, teams, companies, industries, and the globe.
“Being recognized for the second year in a row is incredibly meaningful,” said Borenstein. “This honor belongs to the incredible people at Grokker who bring our vision to life every day. Together we are creating a New Way To Well and reimagining what wellbeing can look like for everyone.”
To see the full list of 2026 Herizon Award winners, visit: https://www.herizonawards.com/winners.
Grokker is a modern wellness solution designed to improve employee engagement, cut healthcare costs, and increase benefits usage. What makes Grokker different is our wellbeing video content and programs as well as Grokky, our conversational agent. Unlike legacy solutions with generic, one-size-fits-all libraries, our content is science-backed, topically relevant, and built to change behavior. Grokky recommends the right content and answers benefits questions in the moments that matter, helping members engage with a benefit and showing what to do next, so nothing gets lost between search results and taking action. With Grokker, employees are healthier and happier, and employers have the insight they need to keep supporting their workforce while optimizing budget. To learn more, visit www.grokker.com
The Herizon Awards recognize women who are transforming individuals, teams, companies, industries, and the globe. Every nomination is read and scored by the Herizon nomination reviewers, experienced business professionals who give transparent feedback and detailed scoring.
Business Intelligence Group (BIG) is an independent awards organization that has been recognizing outstanding achievement in business since 2012. Now in its 14th awards season, BIG operates 12 annual award programs spanning innovation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, customer service, cloud computing, sustainability, sales and marketing, workplace culture, and women's leadership. For more information, visit bintelligence.com.
