Awards.

Stevie International Business Awards

1. Maverick of the Year in International Business

   What the award recognizes

   An individual whose unconventional thinking or decisive leadership changes how international business is approached.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a leader who challenges established practice, takes informed risks, and can show meaningful results across markets, organizations, or stakeholders.

2. Innovator of the Year in International Business

   What the award recognizes

   An individual who originates or leads a significant innovation in an international business setting.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a leader who turns a new idea into a working model and demonstrates adoption, measurable impact, or a durable improvement in how an organization operates.

Golden Bridge Awards

1. Human Resource Executive of The Year

   What the award recognizes

   Executive leadership in people strategy, organizational capability, culture, and the practice of human resources.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by an executive who links people initiatives to measurable employee and business outcomes, leads change credibly, and advances the profession.

2. International Business Executive of the Year

   What the award recognizes

   Leadership that creates meaningful business achievement across countries, regions, or globally distributed stakeholders.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by an executive who combines strategy, cross-cultural leadership, execution, and demonstrated international impact.

3. Women Executive of the Year

   What the award recognizes

   The achievements and influence of a woman serving in a senior business or organizational leadership role.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by an executive with a strong record of decisions, results, organizational influence, and leadership that creates opportunity for others.

4. Maverick of the Year

   What the award recognizes

   A leader whose original, independent approach breaks with convention and produces significant positive change.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by someone who sees a problem differently, acts with conviction, and proves the value of an approach others had not yet adopted.

5. Executive of the Year

   What the award recognizes

   Overall executive excellence across leadership, strategy, execution, organizational performance, and stakeholder impact.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a senior leader who can show sustained results, sound judgment, effective teams, and impact extending beyond a single initiative.

Stevie Awards for Great Employers

1. HR Professional of the Year

   What the award recognizes

   The recent achievements of an individual HR professional and their contribution to a stronger workplace.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a practitioner who combines professional expertise with evidence of improved culture, capability, employee experience, or organizational performance.

World-Changing Women in Conscious Business

1. 30 World-Changing Women in Conscious Business

   What the award recognizes

   Women using business, investment, thought leadership, or change from within organizations to create positive global impact.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a purpose-driven leader whose work combines demonstrated leadership, meaningful impact, and ambition to change how business serves people and the planet.

Women Economic Forum

1. Exceptional Women of Excellence

   What the award recognizes

   Women who are pioneers in their entrepreneurial or professional fields and bring a distinctive voice and vision to leadership.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a leader whose expertise, example, and spirit can inspire a more awakened and empowered generation of leadership.

Stevie Awards for Great Employers

1. Leadership Programme of The Year

   What the award recognizes

   A structured programme designed to strengthen leadership capability through purposeful content, delivery, participation, and application.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a programme that addresses a real leadership need, engages participants well, and demonstrates behavioural, organizational, or business results.

2. Best Workforce Development and Learning Programme

   What the award recognizes

   A learning initiative that develops workforce knowledge, skills, behaviour, or readiness for new organizational demands.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a programme with a clear need, thoughtful design, meaningful reach, strong learner experience, and credible evidence that capability improved.

3. HR Team of the Year

   What the award recognizes

   The achievements of a defined HR team, such as a learning, talent, benefits, recruiting, or organizational-development group.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a team that collaborates effectively, solves a significant people challenge, and can show outcomes beyond routine delivery.

Golden Bridge Awards

1. Innovation of the Year

   What the award recognizes

   A new or substantially improved idea, programme, process, service, or way of working that creates measurable value.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by work that is genuinely differentiated, well executed, supported by evidence, and capable of producing meaningful impact or wider adoption.

2. Best Deployment in Asia Pacific

   What the award recognizes

   The successful implementation of a solution or programme in the Asia-Pacific region, with attention to execution and results.

   Who typically merits it

   Typically merited by a deployment that handles regional complexity, achieves adoption, and demonstrates operational, people, customer, or business outcomes.