The Stevie Awards for Women in Business today launched the Call for Entries for its eighth annual competition. Entry kits and complete details on the competition are available at www.stevieawards.com/women.
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business feature over 50 categories including Best Entrepreneur, Best Young Entrepreneur, Best Executive, Mentor or Coach of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, Employee of the Year, Best Overall Company of the Year, and Most Innovative Company of the Year, among others. The awards are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards and International Business Awards.
All female entrepreneurs, executives, and the organizations they run, worldwide, are eligible to be nominated.
The discounted early-bird entry deadline is July 27 and the final deadline is August 31, 2011. Entrants save 25% by entering early. Winners of the eighth annual competition will be announced at a gala awards dinner in New York in November.
New categories in 2011 include Non-Profit or Government Organization of the Year, Smartphone or Tablet App of the Year, Video of the Year, and multiple new Marketing Campaign, Communications/PR Campaign, and New Product or Service of the year categories.
Winners of the 2010 Stevie Awards for Women in Business included, among others: Teach for America’s Rebecca Fishman Lipsey (Best Executive), Nu Skin Enterprises’ Melissa Tantoco-Quijano (Best Asian Executive), International Financial Data Services’ Debralee L. Goldberg (Best Canadian Executive), Métier, Ltd.’s Sandra Richardson (Mentor of the Year), and Australia’s WildlyWealthy.com (Best Overall Company of the Year). A complete list of 2010 honorees is available at www.stevieawards.com/women.
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are judged by many leading women entrepreneurs, executives and luminaries in business.
A portion of each ticket sold for the November 11 awards dinner will be contributed to Camfed (www.camfed.org), which fights poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by educating girls and empowering women to become leaders of change.
About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.stevieawards.com/, and follow the Stevie Awards on Twitter @TheStevieAwards.
Sponsors of the 2011 Stevie Awards for Women in Business include Infogroup and KeyBank’s Key4Women program. Localization partner of the 2011 Stevie Awards is SDL. The November 11 awards presentations will be broadcast by the Business TalkRadio Network.
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