If your business is looking to truly improve the employee experience and increase engagement, it’s not enough to just roll out an intranet and hope that does the trick. While putting the right platform in place is important, it is essential to also have digital leaders who advocate for your community’s transformative power across the organization.

That’s why we’d like to congratulate our customer Aaron Kim, head of Digital Workplace Solutions at the Royal Bank of Canada, who was recently awarded Digital Leader of the Year by Digital Workplace Group (DWG) in partnership with Simpler Media Group (SMG)/CMSWire. The prestigious award recognized Aaron for his leadership on RBC Connect, Royal Bank of Canada’s enterprise community (powered by Jive), among other projects.

Through Aaron’s leadership, RBC Connect has grown to more than 63,000 active users and 3,600-plus active communities. His strategy for the next five years is to continue evolving RBC Connect to meet the company’s and employees’ ever-changing needs. By doing so, Aaron’s goal is to keep the RBC Connect experience for employees simple and keep their engagement high.

One of the things that most impresses us about Aaron is that he makes time to contribute to the broader business community by sharing his valuable insights around collaboration, digital transformation, and trends in business communications. Check out his latest articles in Biznology or this recent video interview from Intra.NET Reloaded Boston.

We’re also pleased to announce that Aaron and his colleague – Sajneet Sodhi, program IT director at RBC – will speak at Aurea Experience 18 in New Orleans this December about how they’re expanding the Global 500 bank’s use of Jive to take adoption and engagement to the next level. Interested in attending? You can still grab a spot here.