Female CEO of the Year Awards

About the Female CEO of the Year Awards

CEO Monthly is happy to announce the return of the Female CEO of the Year Awards. Following a successful launch in 2022, this highly anticipated awards programme spotlights the best in Female CEO leadership.

2023 is a landmark year where for the first time more than 10% of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Progress is happening within the leadership structure for gender equality. Some industries have this equality to a greater extent, but these figures prove that C-Suite leadership is transforming. Now is the perfect time to celebrate these individuals. Recognition in an international awards programme is a fantastic method to showcase the many successes of the Female CEO.

Worldwide, there is an imbalance in the number of Female CEOs. Often overlooked for leadership roles, women face many challenges before they are promoted to the CEO position. Gender stereotypes are but a few hurdles the Female CEO must overcome. Attitudes towards women and female leadership also prevent women from taking a C-Suite role. These opinions have been changing over recent years, but experts agree that there is still work needed in this area. A Female CEO over her career has experienced and overcome many different challenges than her male counterpart. Rewarding these hardworking women, who are often trailblazers in their industry, is a proud accomplishment for CEO Monthly.

Despite the inequality in CEO leadership, industry experts agree that a female-ran organisation has many benefits. Diversity is a notable example of these advantages. Other improvements include fairer leadership decisions and better female recruitment. Research also shows there is a higher proportion of women in leadership roles when they are managed by a Female CEO. So why shouldn’t the Female CEO be congratulated for her hard work? She is often revolutionising her company and deserves to be applauded for her achievements. The Female CEO of the Year Awards 2023 is the perfect platform to highlight and celebrate these individuals.

As in each of our award programmes, the Female CEO of the Year Awards 2023 welcomes third-party and self-nominations. Our process also uses CEO Monthly’s in-house research team to analyse and assess potential awardees on the bases of merit and quality, regardless of company size or location. As a merit-based programme, we can state that all nominees are judged objectively and that multiple votes are not needed for an individual to be successful. So, if you know of a female CEO that you think deserves to be recognised for her accomplishments, please do not hesitate to submit a nomination.

The Female CEO of the Year Awards 2023 are an excellent method to display female leadership. CEO Monthly is honoured to be able to appreciate these industrious women who have often battled throughout their careers. This is why CEO Monthly is proud to take the time to celebrate these women. The Female CEO of the Year Awards 2023 will shine a light on female leadership and provide each awardee with the recognition she rightly deserves.

Methodology

Researching CEO Monthly nominees

Shortlisting our nominees

Judging & evaluating nominees

Reaching out to winners

Make the most of your win

Researching our nominees

The CEO Monthly team work ardently to identify great business leaders, driving many of the nominations themselves. We also encourage external nominations via the subscribers of the magazine, online visitors, social media followers, clients and wider circulation. Nominating parties are invited to put forward either CEOs of third-party businesses whom they hold in high regard, or the CEO of the business which they are a part of.

Shortlisting our nominees

All nominees are formally requested to accept their nomination. Should any firm or individual rather decline at this point, they are simply taken out of the running. Those formally accepting are given the opportunity to submit additional materials in support of their nomination. Although there is no obligation to complete and supply material, we have found that many nominees value this stage, in the process, as much as our research team do.

Evaluating nominees

Our dedicated research team will assess all information presented to them. The team gather information independently from a variety of publicly accessible sources, which are assessed alongside any material supplied by a nominating party or the nominee themselves. The research team casts their final judgment, based on various criteria such as: business performance whilst the CEO has been in the position, any dramatic or positive change within the business since the CEO took the helm, feedback from any stakeholders during this time and any new innovations within the timeframe.

Our lucky winners

Once winners are selected, they are personally notified before any public announcement is made, allowing time for any communications throughout the wider business and the coordination of marketing strategies. Unfortunately, not everyone can be a winner; however, all who take part are encouraged to come back next year. Once the press embargo is lifted, details of our award winners will be made public via the website, award winners’ magazine and subscriber newsletter.

Share the exciting news

We are prepared to offer a range of promotional packages and items to winners in the Global CEO Excellence Awards, which vary from inclusion in the free-of-charge winners’ directory, to trophies, content in our magazine and on our website.

We encourage all winners to publicly announce their win independently in order to gain maximum exposure for them personally and for their business. Announcements via company websites, social media, via publicly released press releases, and through local and national press are all great ways of maximising the exposure which can be gained from such a great achievement. If you have need of further advice, on how to publicise your win, please feel free to get in touch. We are happy to assist our clients with their needs.

Meet The Team

Need Help With Your Nomination? We can point you in the right direction.

The Nomination Team can assist with answering any queries that you have regarding a nomination, or the process involved in taking part in one of our award programmes.

Please get in touch with us via email or over the phone if you have any questions - we are happy to help!

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Key Dates

Entries Open:

Sunday 30th July 2023

Entries Closed:

Friday 8th September 2023

Winners Announced:

January 2024

Our Awards Team

Rowen Dales - CEO Monthly Researcher

Rowen joined the media group in 2020 and has been involved in the researching of nominees and winners of the CEO Monthly Awards since. Rowen has a genuine interest in businesses and how they have come to evolve over time making her an ideal Researcher for the brand researching the figureheads behind each business put forward for consideration.

Laura O'Carrol - CEO Monthly Awards Team Leader

Laura joined AI Global Media in 2014 and has since proven to be a most respected, conscientious and valued team member. Laura oversees CEO Monthly’s key awards programmes ensuring that all nominees and winners receive a great experience from the team and that our winners are supported in gaining maximum exposure for achieving truly great things within the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.

Featured Winners

Winners

Our recent winners

2022

FAQs

How long has CEO Monthly been in circulation for?+

CEO Monthly launched in 2017, but it is already well on its way to cementing a place amongst the highly respected sources for information within its sector. This is shown by an ever-expanding circulation which is currently 60,000 strong. Our publication aims to offer the very latest insight, interviews and profiles of Chief Executive Officers from across the corporate landscape. We achieve this through our dedicated editorial team who work diligently to provide the latest news and updates, drawing on their network of contacts from across the globe who span every major industry and sector, providing comment and insight which is invaluable. CEO Monthly is one of the many publications by AI Global Media, a UK based publisher which has published over 200 worldwide publications to its name since 2010.

Where did the nomination come from?+

As mentioned in the methodology, we frequently nominate candidates ourselves. In terms of voting, in the interest of maintaining high response rates, we do not ask nominees to reveal their personal identity, if you didn’t cast a vote by self-submission it is likely to have been cast via a colleague or client who has received one of our direct invitations. The main ethos of our awards system is that your ability to succeed is not linked to the number of votes received, with the most pertinent belief behind this being that all awards will be received purely on merit. As a means of identifying spam votes and countering cyber-threats, we are constantly monitoring the site for unusual behaviour.

What happens if I agree to be on the shortlist?+

As we look to keep maximum focus on relevant candidates, we ask all nominees to accept their position on the shortlist. This also gives people complete control in their decision on whether they would like to move forward with the award. There is no cost for you to be added onto the shortlist or for any of our winners. Nominees who accept will then proceed to our rigorous internal vetting procedure. They are given an opportunity to present their own data which gets considered alongside the information collated by our research team. It can take up to 8 weeks for research to be completed.

Who makes the final decision?+

We employ an entirely impartial panel of 5 individuals to conduct all of the research to our high standards. At the helm of the panel we have a veteran academic leader with international academic and training experience. They are well versed in research, fact-checking and mediation. We believe this method is the most efficient in determining which individuals and companies are most deserving in winning an award and has brought us much success and commendation throughout its use. Our continued use of this panel plays a key part in enforcing CEO Monthly’s stance that winners are not determined by popularity of votes, but by their contributions to the sector.

Is there a winner’s ceremony/award dinner and if so, when does it take place?+

We do not focus our efforts on a celebratory event. Despite being an enjoyable occasion, it doesn’t support our group’s philosophy of cost-effective marketing. As well as the lack of cost efficiency, CEO Monthly is an establishment which runs awards worldwide and we believe it would be logistically difficult for some of our winners to attend an awards ceremony. We follow the belief that any of the optional costs involved with the award would be more beneficial in a year’s worth of online marketing for a winner, rather than spending it all on a ceremonial evening. All of our press announcements are made digitally, online and across our network to enforce our position as digital publishers. We aim to arm you with the tools (both digital and physical) to generate real-world value.

What happens if I am deemed successful?+

There is a short press embargo in place where we ask you not to make the news public, giving us the chance to prepare the different means of coverage we offer for companies. This means that during this period the program manager will liaise with you to agree on the most appropriate coverage for you. Our main feature takes the form of a digital celebratory magazine, but we also offer physical trophies, wall mounted and digital certificates, web-based advertisements and press releases which are bespoke to you or your company. These options are aimed to make the awards tailor made to each individual firm, regardless of which option you decide to go for.

Are there any costs involved?+

As previously mentioned, there are no compulsory costs in accepting a nomination or winning an award with CEO Monthly. We do offer a variety of paid additional benefits for our winners, but these are completely optional and merely supplementary to your award rather than essential. To demonstrate our commitment to no mandatory fees, all of our winners are offered a free of charge promotional package. Our company policy will always remain: regardless of budget, our clients should always be able to garner the full value of the award and our seal of approval.

Why does your email domain differ from your website domain?+

Because we send a large volume of emails, we separate our campaign email sends from our transactional ones. This structure helps to ensure a prompt and thorough response from one of our diligent team members. The sending email address will always be recognisable but please contact us via the address on this page if you have any concerns.