Ingage Inc. (Head office: Osaka City, Osaka; President and Representative Director: Tetsuya Wada), provider of the communication platform “Re:lation,” announced that it has received the Encouragement Award in the small and mid-sized enterprise category at the “Career Ownership Management AWARD 2026,” for which Persol Career Co., Ltd. serves as the executive committee secretariat. The company was recognized for its distinctive initiatives in a rapidly growing startup environment, where each employee proactively defines their role and connects individual passion to business growth. The Career Ownership Management AWARD recognizes companies that promote “new relationships between individuals and companies” by practicing three perspectives of career ownership management: making career ownership talent visible, increasing such talent, and connecting it with management and business. The award aims to introduce outstanding practices for maximizing human capital to society. The judging committee is chaired by Kunio Ito, Director of the CFO Education and Research Center at Hitotsubashi University. Other judges include experts working on human capital maximization and HR transformation, Professor Kennosuke Tanaka of Hosei University’s Faculty and Graduate School of Career Design, who also chairs the award’s executive committee, and the secretariat of the Career Ownership and Future of Work Consortium. Ingage promotes career ownership through the following initiatives. First, it redefines roles through daily dialogue. The company creates opportunities for employees to verbalize medium- to long-term career aspirations that are difficult to capture through everyday communication, and it quickly implements flexible role adjustments as management decisions while respecting individual preferences. Second, it fosters company-wide information sharing and a culture of praise. Ingage continues to publish through its official note account and operates a system in which all employees, in