Las Vegas, NV – July 23, 2026 – Janek Performance Group has been named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the category “Technology Breakthrough of the Year – Business Technology” in the third annual Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. The recognition comes in Janek’s first year submitting an entry to the program, marking a strong debut for the company’s AI-powered sales performance platform, Jenius CC.
Winners will be honored at a red carpet awards ceremony on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at the Pullman Paris Montparnasse in Paris, France, where they will be celebrated alongside winners of the 2026 Stevie® Awards for Great Employers, The International Business Awards®, and the German Stevie® Awards.
More than 700 nominations from organizations of all sizes in 37 nations and territories were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of Tech-related categories, including Company of the Year, Educational or Research Institution of the Year, Technical Innovation of the Year, Technology Breakthrough of the Year, and more in a variety of industry groupings including Advertising, Marketing, and PR, Aerospace Technology, Biotechnology, Business Technology, Healthcare Technology, among others.
Jenius CC (“Jenius”) was recognized for its capability to bridge the “Execution Gap” in sales training and enablement. By acting as an AI-native performance layer embedded directly in the seller’s workflow, Jenius ensures that methodology-governed coaching, reinforcement, and practice occur in the flow of daily work rather than in isolation. Aggregated data from our customer base highlights the platform’s exceptional real-world impact: driving a 40–50% improvement in deal velocity, a 50% reduction in calls required to close, and slashing seller ramp times by up to three months. Judges for this year’s awards praised Jenius as a “true technology breakthrough that prioritizes human performance over simple administrative automation,” with another noting that “the platform’s capability to drive measurable behavior change and turn diagnostic pipeline risks into won revenue represents the future of corporate sales enablement.”
“This Bronze Stevie Award is a welcome recognition for us,” said Justin Zappulla, Managing Partner at Janek Performance Group. “I want to congratulate our entire product, engineering, and enablement teams whose hard work turned this vision into reality. By creating a methodology-aware system of execution, they have solved the classic problem of post-training skill decay and equipped sales teams with the tools they need to win complex deals consistently.”
More than 180 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s honorees.
Managing Partner Nick Kane emphasized the strategic importance of this achievement. “We built Jenius because we saw a massive gap in modern sales enablement. While standard AI tools excel at automating administrative tasks, they don’t actually help sellers get better at selling. Our technology addresses this directly by acting as a performance layer that sits on top of existing enterprise platforms. Rather than simply automating administrative tasks and scaling bad habits, Jenius equips, prepares, and coaches sellers to master their deal execution and conversations in real-time. This recognition from the Stevie Awards validates our commitment to putting human performance at the heart of technological innovation.”
Details about the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence and the list of 2026 Stevie winners are available at http://Tech.StevieAwards.com.
About the Stevie Awards
The Stevie® Awards, widely recognized as the world’s premier business awards, are nicknamed the Stevies, derived from the Greek word stephanos, meaning “crowned.” The Stevie Awards are conferred through nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.
The Stevie Awards receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
