Excellence in Client Service
Entry content should: Substantiate the candidates’ qualifications focused on examples of client service actions, relationship practices, or innovation in working with and/or serving clients of the firm. Provide demonstrative examples and support how those practices and/or activities improved or changed client relationships and client/firm success.
Excellence in Leadership
Entry content should: Substantiate the candidates’ demonstrated “above-and-beyond” leadership across multiple categories, disciplines and/or offices, including examples of the nominee’s record as a superior leader, administrator, influencer, innovator and mentor among peers, co-workers and clients. Nominee should also provide corroboration of actions and activities relative to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts relating to workplace, clients and civic responsibility.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Entry content should: Substantiate the candidates’ lifetime accomplishments and contributions to the consulting profession. Provide specific supporting examples demonstrating nominee’s significant impact on the success of their firms, clients, and their support and advancement of workplace and communities. Describe and demonstrate relevant or innovative work and achievements furthering industry standards, practices, education and social responsibility.
Diversity Champion
Entry content should: Substantiate the candidates’ demonstrated commitment and expertise in creating inclusive work environments and understanding of the perceptual, institutional and psychological processes impacting DEI. Please support with examples of nominee’s successful engagement, identification and development of programs and processes addressing bias and specific diversity and inclusion issues and strategies to counter and create compliance and inclusive work culture.
Excellence in Regulation and Compliance
Entry content should: Substantiate the candidates’ demonstrated success with solutions and programs for clients in regulated industries ensuring compliance, resolving compliance issues and improving industry standards. Successful entries will support nominee’s unique/outstanding accomplishments related to: risk assessment, training, monitoring, auditing, crisis management and response, reporting and accountability, and overall work to maintain legal and ethical standards, minimize risk, overcome problems and foster compliance-oriented cultures.
Excellence in Digital Transformation
Entry content should: Substantiate candidates’ demonstrated success in building and executing comprehensive strategies and tactics leading successful digital transformation(s). This can be a single case study or history of multiple successful implementations. Specifically address the nominee’s accomplishments related to change management, integration, strategic vision, leadership engagement, unique processes, methodologies, technologies, data management and security as well as communications, training and measurable KPIs for evaluation of success. Include qualitative, quantitative and anecdotal metrics and relevant data supporting the successful execution(s) of the program(s).
Excellence in Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
Entry content should: Entry content should: Substantiate the candidates’ demonstrated success in building and executing comprehensive strategies and tactics identifying and developing successful security/privacy programs This can be a single case study or history of multiple successful implementations. Specifically address the nominee’s accomplishments related to development and execution of technological, organizational and procedural measures including: overall holistic cybersecurity and data privacy strategy, risk assessment and management, comprehensive security policies, encryption, incident response and recovery planning, Include qualitative, quantitative and anecdotal metrics and relevant data supporting the successful execution(s) of the program(s).
Excellence in Environmental and Social Governance
Entry content should: Substantiate the candidates’ demonstrated expertise in the assessment of environmental, social and governance matters, and development and implementation of policies to affect and improve performance. Specifically address the nominee’s accomplishments related to setting criteria for social and environmental responsibility and governance matters including processes for compliance, monitoring and redress.
Technology Innovators
(This category is not for innovation based on technology or AI.)
Entry content should: Entry content should: Provide description of candidates’ unique or innovative technology solution(s) applied to address client or industry issues/needs in general or in specific sectors. Support with examples of unique coding and/or development of new technology/software, or assembly and arrangement of existing technology/ software, for the betterment of the industry, sector, clients, employees, communities or overall firm success. Successful entries will clearly define the problem addressed and proposed solution and substantiate the development and execution with qualitative, quantitative metrics and relevant data supporting the results.
Industry Innovators
Entry content should: Entry content should: Substantiate the candidates’ measurable innovative contribution(s) (processes, programs or to the industry in general or specific sectors. Support with examples of unique concepts, new/revised or rejuvenated operational practices services and products; reused or completely new constructs brought to bear in the marketplace or office. Please substantiate measurable impact to the industry or sector as well as to firm, clients and communities.