Walking the Talk
This award celebrates individuals who:
- Personally nurture, develop, mentor, and sponsor women in their own organizations and in the broader global ecosystem; and
- Set personal and organizational standards to encourage gender equity; and
- Influence and encourage others to promote gender equity and change behavior, including through introducing and supporting interventions, policies, and practices that deliver these outcomes for their own organization and the broader global ecosystem.
Innovating
This award celebrates individuals who:
- Create or invest in new products or services or adapt them to enrich the lives of women and girls; and
- Personally exemplify high standards for supporting and mentoring women and girls.
Scaling and Sustaining Change
This award celebrates individuals who:
- Increase awareness about equitable solutions as well as influence outcomes for economically and socially empowering women and girls in the global arena, and
- Accelerate, expand, and sustain change to impact a larger pool of women and girls, and
- Personally exemplify high standards for supporting and mentoring women and girls.
Building Social Capital and Trust
This award celebrates individuals who:
- Are personally trusted by diverse persons (gender, race, age, differently abled, sexual preference, LGBTQI, education, income level) in their networks and approached for advice and help; and
- Have built diverse and inclusive networks of business and professional peers and personal contacts that span multiple industries, for-profit and non-profit sectors, in multiple countries; and
- Use their diverse personal and professional networks to create positive and sustainable outcomes for their community, country, and/or globally, by economically and socially empowering women and girls, and
- Leverage inclusive networks to influence, advocate for, and support more inclusion of diverse voices and philosophies on globally important social, economic, and/or environmental issues.
