Who Can Nominate
- Corporate Organizations
- Educational Institutions
- Chambers of Commerce
- Not-for-Profit Organizations
The LEAD Awards celebrate internal development, leadership, and training programs implemented by Corporate, Government, and Educational organizations.
Nominating your Program
The first step to winning a prestigious LEAD Award is to nominate your own, or your client's internal training and development program. To nominate a program, submit a nomination form online, which takes less than 10 minutes. You are free to nominate your program for any number of award categories that you think are relevant. A LEAD representative will review your nomination to ensure that the program you have nominated is suitable for the chosen categories. The deadline to nominate is January 5, 2021 at 5:00 PM ET.
How to Get a High Ranking
Once your program has been approved by a LEAD representative, you will be sent a unique link to a short feedback survey that takes less than 1 minute to complete. You are responsible for sharing this voting link to all the people who have experienced your program, including employees, trainers, managers, stakeholders, etc.
Award winners will be notified within 7 days after the nomination deadline and are determined by an algorithm that measures the percentage of total surveys completed compared to the number of people in the program, the average score your program received from its participants, and the description /feedback we receive about your program. The more people that complete the survey and the higher they score it, the better chance you have of winning. We do realize that some programs reach thousands of employees and it would be next to impossible to reach all of them. In this case, we accommodate by looking more favorably on lower completion rates for larger organizations.
The Winners Circle
Organizations that have ranked high enough to be in the winners circle are among the top 10% in each category. Each category has a different number of winners in the winners circle based on the total amount of organizations in that category. All organizations in the winners circle will receive a LEAD Award, with special recognition to those in the top 3 spots. Furthermore, all organizations in the winners circle are invited to host their own virtual roundtable at the Human Experience Summit 2021 and will be recognized virtually at an awards ceremony.