Optimum works to transform businesses through the power of its people, innovative technologies, and automated processes. Even during the pandemic, Optimum has significantly grown its client base, team size, and revenue without financial assistance from a male-dominated industry. Optimum strives to help companies modernize their business systems by utilizing their optimized processes, modern technologies, and exceptional customer experiences. 

Since earning her Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year – Business Products, Nooshin continues to lead Optimum which started with minimal capital investment during the difficult economy and market of 2014 in a male-dominated industry, but gained rapid momentum and growth as every single person working at Optimum, from the executive leadership to junior staff, believes in integrity, transparency, quality, great customer experience, and smart work.

Optimum's growth since 2019 has been 87% growth in number of employees and 117% growth in revenue. Additionally, the company now helps many more private, public, and government organizations develop new ways to make their business processes more efficient and "humancentric." Nooshin’s goal at Optimum is to put their people first. As the workforce takes care of clients, she strives to find new organizations that share the same vision and work style as Optimum.

Nooshin Yazhari won the Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year – Business Products.

Interested in submitting a nomination for the 2022 (19th Annual) Stevie Awards for Women in Business?

4Life Gold Factor received the most votes in the 2022 People's Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite New Products, an annual feature of The American Business Awards®, the U.S.A.’s top business awards program, which are now in their 20th year.

The worldwide public vote was conducted last month, with the highest number of votes deciding the winners in a variety of product categories. More than 46,000 votes were cast. To win, a category’s leading vote-getter had to have received at least 100 votes.

The winners of the crystal People’s Choice Stevie Awards will be recognized during the ABA’s awards ceremony on June 13, along with the winners of the Grand, Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevies announced this Spring.

All new products and services nominated in the new product awards categories of this year’s American Business Awards were eligible to be included in voting for the people’s choice awards.

The winners of the 2022 People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products are:

• AI/ Machine Learning Solution: Evisort's Contract Intelligence Platform
• Business Technology - Other: Pega Customer Decision Hub (CDH)
• Business/Competitive Intelligence Solution: Evisort's Contract Intelligence Platform
• Business-to-Business Products: Niagara's New Toilet Product Suites
• Career and Workforce Readiness Solution: VUMI(Lab)
• Cloud Application/Service: AutoLeap
• Cloud Infrastructure: CoreStack NextGen Cloud Governance
• Cloud Platform: Ericom ZTEdge
• Cloud Storage & Backup Solution: Nasuni Cloud File Services
• Consumer Electronics: OWC Atlas S Pro  SD Media Card
• Consumer Products - Household Products: Moxie Blankets Monster Protection Academy Line
• Consumer Products/Services - Other: 4Life Gold Factor
• Content Management Solution: Quark Publishing Platform NextGen
• Content Solutions - Other: First American Data & Analytics Tax Source
• Corp. Learning/Workforce Development Solution: AskNicely's Frontline Success Platform
• Customer Data Platform: BlueConic Customer Data Platform
• Digital Process Automation Solution: BeSmartee TIOS
• Education Administrative Solution: PeopleAdmin's HigherEd Platform
• Education Products/Services - Other: Savvas Learning's Experience Chemistry
• Emerging Tech Solution for Education Administrators: PeopleAdmin's Faculty Information System
• Emerging Technology: Avaya OneCloud
• Endpoint Security Management Solution: Syxsense Secure
• ERP Solution: Unit4 ERPx
• Financial Management Solution: Century Business Solutions EBizCharge
• FinTech Solution: FinLocker v3.0 App
• HCM or Talent Management Solution: hireEZ
• Healthcare Technology Solution: Capital Rx's JUDI
• Insurance Solution: BenefitMall's Marketplace
• Integration Platform as a Solution: ZigiWave ZigiOps
• International Data Protection Solution: Snapt NovaSense
• Lead Generation Solution: Digital Air Strike Response Logix 5.0
• Legal Information Solution: Evisort's Contract Intelligence Platform
• Legal Solution: Evisort's Contract Intelligence Platform
• Network Security Solution: Ericom ZTEdge
• Payments Solution: Century Business Solutions EBizCharge
• Personal Info Regulatory Compliance Solution: PKWARE's PK Protect
• Relationship Management Solution: Zift Solutions ZiftONE Virtual Event Campaigns
• Remote Working Solution: GAVS Technologies zDesk
• Supply Chain Management Solution: Avetta One Platform
• Telecommunications: Windstream Enterprise OfficeSuite Live
  
  

See the full list of People's Choice Stevie Award winners on our website, here.

Wir freuen uns, den Start der 19. Stevie® Awards for Women in Business bekannt zu geben. Gute Nachrichten für Early-Birds: noch bis zum 29. Juni erhalten Unternehmerinnen, weibliche Führungskräfte und Arbeitnehmerinnen weltweit ermäßigte Teilnahmegebühren für die Einreichung ihrer Nominierungen. 

Es ist endlich wieder soweit. Die Stevie Awards nehmen ab sofort wieder Bewerbungen für die Stevie® Awards for Women in Business entgegen. Bereits zum 19. Mal ehren die Stevie® Awards im Rahmen dieses speziellen Wirtschaftspreisprogramms herausragende Leistungen von Unternehmerinnen, Frauen in Führungspositionen, Mitarbeiterinnen und von Frauen geführte Organisationen.

Teilnahmeunterlagen und sowie umfassende Informationen zum Wettbewerb finden Interessierte Teilnehmerinnen unter http://www.StevieAwards.com/Women.

Mit den Stevie® Awards for Women in Business werden die Leistungen von berufstätigen Frauen in mehr als 100 Kategorien gewürdigt.

Prämiert werden die Frauen unter anderem in den Kategorien:

• Kategorien Kommunikation & Marketing (entwickelt für/von Frauen)
• Weibliche Führungskraft des Jahres
• Mentorin oder Coachin des Jahres
• Preis für das Lebenswerk
• Verdienst um Lohngleichheit
• Frauen helfen Frauen
• Mitarbeiterin des Jahres
• Von Frauen geführtes Unternehmen des Jahres
• Innovatorin des Jahres
• Kategorien für den Umgang mit COVID-19

Was erwartet uns Neues? 

• Erweiterung des Leistungszeitraums: Die Teilnahmeberechtigung für die Stevie® Awards for Women in Business 2022 erstreckt sich vom 1. Juli 2020 bis zum 24. August 2022, dem letzten Tag, an dem Bewerbungen angenommen werden. Die Nominierungen sollten sich auf Errungenschaften während dieses Zeitraums beziehen. Für die Kategorien für das Lebenswerk gibt es jedoch keinen Zeitrahmen für die Nominierung.
• Es gibt drei Einreichungsfristen, darunter eine Frühbucherfrist, bei der die Teilnahmegebühren ermäßigt sind:
  29. Juni: Einsendeschluss für Frühbucherinnen - ermäßigte Teilnahmegebühren von $35
  27. Juli: Einsendeschluss
  24. August: Letzter Tag, an dem verspätete Anmeldungen gegen Zahlung einer Nachmeldegebühr von $55 akzeptiert werden

Nach Abschluss der Bewerbungsphase prüfen über 200 führende Expertinnen aus aller Welt die eingegangenen Nominierungen. Die Preisträgerinnen haben nach der Bekanntgabe der Gewinner Zugang zu allen Kommentaren und Vorschlägen der Jury, bezüglich ihrer Nominierungen.

Social Media Heldinnen gesucht!

In diesen neuen Kategorien für Social Media werden die Leistungen von Organisationen seit dem 1. Juli 2020 gewürdigt, die Innovationen in den Bereichen Erstellung und Moderation von Social-Media-Inhalten, Management und Marketing von und für Frauen hervorgebracht haben. Zu diesen Kategorien gehören unter anderem: 

• Der innovativste Business-Podcast von oder für Frauen
•  Innovativster Business-Blog von oder für Frauen
• Innovativste Facebook-Seite von oder für Frauen
• Beste Business Influencerin des Jahres
• Beste Business-Bloggerin des Jahres

Starke Frauen – Women in Business Preisträgerinnen des letzten Jahres

Die Gewinnerinnen der Goldenen, Silbernen und Bronzenen Stevie Awards 2021 spiegeln eine vielfältige Gruppe großer und kleiner Organisationen rund um den Globus wider. Zu den Gold- Preisträgerinnen 2021 zählen auch Geschäftsfrauen und Unternehmen aus dem deutschsprachigen Europa:

• Als innovativste Frau im Bereich Marketing und Werbung wurde Natalie Wills von Zalando  aus Berlin mit dem Gold Stevie ausgezeichnet. 
• Mit einem Gold und und einem Bronze Stevie Award in den Achievement Kategorien wurde DHL Global Forwarding aus Bonn ausgezeichnet. 
• SUSE aus Nürnberg wurde für die weibliche Führungskraft des Jahres mit einem Silber Award geehrt.  

Eine vollständige Liste aller Gewinnerinnen 2021 finden Sie hier.

Wenn auch Sie sich bei den 19. Stevie® Awards for Women in Business mit ihren Leistungen bewerben möchten, registrieren Sie sich noch heute unter www.StevieAwards.com/Women/register.

Alexi Paxinos is a hardworking and dedicated tourism marketer. Her competitive and ambitious attitude has catapulted her career forward as she works on building her confidence, brand, and advocacy. This dedication to her work has caused her to be promoted many times over during her first five years at the South Australian Tourism Commission (SATC). Her work at the SATC has been particularly impactful as she created a tourism campaign that aimed to support the South Australian tourism sector which had been impacted by the decrease in visitation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and South Australian bushfires that occurred one year prior.

The tourism campaign, which rolled out in less than 90 days from inception, saw nearly 45,500 people make bookings with more than 220 South Australian tour and experience providers, providing an immediate cash injection to these businesses during the traditionally quieter winter months. The end result of this project saw a $12 million increase in economic impact for the state of South Australia and a difference in the lives of many local small tourism business owners.Her work on this project helped her earn her the Gold Stevie Award for Female Employee of the Year. Since then, several iterations of Alexi’s campaigns have been launched by the SATC, and continue to help the South Australian tourism industry recover from the challenges of COVID-19. Focused on the implementation of the SATC’s Wellness Tourism Sector Plan across the state, Alexi is working with various stakeholders to enable South Australia to be positioned and recognized as a leading global wellness destination. So far, she has worked with a number of operators to create new and enhance existing tourism offerings in this sector. She's also working to enact organizational change by influencing decision-makers to encourage the switch to electronic, paperless, COVID-friendly, and eco-friendly business cards and creating better efficiencies across work processes by utilizing software and other technologies.

In addition to her work at the SATC, Alexi became Deputy Chair of Spence Club Inc. in May 2021. Through this, Alexi and her team have led the delivery of a record number of events and achieved the highest event attendance since the Club’s inception in 2015, contributed to the Club’s abolishment of the membership age limit, facilitated closer collaboration with charity partners, and provided increased benefits and scholarship opportunities to professional women in South Australia. 

In the tourism space, Alexi took on the role of Chair of the Young Australian Tourism Export Council of South Australia in June 2021, where she helped build a committee of five, compared to other Australian states with only one committee member. Through this, Alexi and the team have continued to support young tourism professionals through the impact of COVID by continuing to provide professional development opportunities and ongoing events. 

In March 2021, Alexi joined the She Creates committee, a female-led initiative of the Adelaide Advertising and Design Club aimed at developing, promoting, and inspiring women in creative communications in Adelaide. Four months in, Alexi sourced sponsorship that impacted the bottom line of She Creates, creating the ability to deliver longer, higher-quality, and more frequent development opportunities for women in the industry. Alexi is also in the early stages of launching an international education agency to encourage overseas students to study in Australia. Impacted by the COVID pandemic and Australian border closures, Alexi and the team have been using the time to re-evaluate the business goals and identify ways to increase accessibility to Australian education for more people, including those from lower-income family backgrounds.

Alexi Paxinos won the Gold for Female Employee of the Year - Government or Non-Profit in the 2021 Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

Interested in submitting a nomination for the 2022 (19th Annual) Stevie Awards for Women in Business?

The last day to get your Women|Future Conference ticket for $69 USD, the lowest early-bird rate, is Tuesday, May 31. Register here.

Die  Stevie® Awards for Great Employers gehen in den Endspurt. Arbeitgeber und HR-Experten haben jetzt noch die Chance, Nominierungen bis zum 8. Juni 2022 einzureichen.

Der Einsendeschluss der Stevie® Awards for Great Employers rückt näher! Am 8. Juni endet die Teilnahmefrist der beliebten Awards, die die weltweit besten Arbeitgeber, Personalteams, Fachleute, Lieferanten sowie neue Produkte und Dienstleistungen ehren, die dazu beitragen, großartige Arbeitsplätze zu schaffen und zu fördern. Verspätete Einreichungen werden noch bis zum 7. Juli gegen Zahlung einer Nachgebühr angenommen.

Alle Personen und Organisationen weltweit - öffentliche und private, gewinnorientierte und gemeinnützige, große und kleine - können Nominierungen für die Stevie Awards for Great Employers einreichen.

Nutzen Sie noch jetzt die Gelegenheit, sich bei Ihren geschätzten Mitarbeitern zu bedanken und sie wertzuschätzen und die Bekanntheit Ihres Unternehmens zu verstärken!

Eine internationale Jury aus mehr als 50 Führungskräften wird die Gewinner der Awards ermitteln. Die Finalist:innen werden am 8. August bekannt gegeben. Die Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner der Stevie® Awards in Gold, Silber und Bronze werden am 17. September bei einer Galaveranstaltung im Caesars Palace in Las Vegas bekannt gegeben und ausgezeichnet, sofern die Umstände es zulassen.

Es erwarten Sie unter anderem diese Kategorien:

Die Stevie Awards for Great Employers würdigen Leistungen in vielen Facetten der Arbeitswelt. Die Kategorien umfassen:

• Auszeichnungen für den Arbeitgeber des Jahres
• HR Achievement Awards
• HR Einzelauszeichnungen
• HR-Team-Kategorien
• Auszeichnungen für Lösungsanbieter
• Auszeichnungen für Lösungen, Implementierungen und Trainingsprogramme oder Medien
• Kategorien zur Reaktion auf COVID-19

In diesem Jahr werden bei den Stevie® Awards for Great Employers erstmalig die Kategorien für Thought Leadership eingeführt. Diese Kategorien würdigen die Vordenkerrolle im Bereich Personalwesen seit Beginn des Jahres 2020.

Außerdem fallen für 14 der 16 HR-Einzelkategorien keine Teilnahmegebühren an.

Public Voting für die Employer of the Year-Kategorien

Die Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger in den 31 branchenspezifischen "Employer of the Year"-Kategorien werden durch eine einzigartige Mischung aus öffentlichen Abstimmungen und professionellen Bewertungen ermittelt. Die öffentliche Abstimmung findet vom 11. Juli bis 1. August 2022 statt.

Diese großartigen Arbeitgebenden aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum wurden im letzten Jahr geehrt

Zu den Stevie® Award-Gewinnerinnen und Gewinnern im Jahr 2021 gehörten Bayer AG (Leverkusen), Denstply Sirona (Bensheim), DHL Global Forwarding, F.Hoffmann - La Roche (Basel), Freight (Bonn), Personio (München), Raytheon Professional Services GmbH (Rüsselsheim), Swiss Re (Zürich) und viele mehr.

Eine vollständige Liste der Gewinnenden im letzten Jahr finden Sie hier.

Nutzen Sie Ihre Chance auf die Auszeichnung mit einem Stevie Award for Great Employers und registrieren Sie sich noch heute. 

Weitere Informationen zum aktuellen Wettbewerb finden Sie unter www.StevieAwards.com/HR. 

Kelli Thompson is a leadership coach, speaker, and writer with over 15 years of experience in corporate America and over 10 years in leadership for financial services and technology organizations. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, she founded the Clarity & Confidence Women's Leadership Program, a nationwide, online leadership development program for women leaders. Through this program, she has coached and trained hundreds of women to trust themselves, lead with more confidence, and create a career they love. Her work has since been featured in HuffPost, Next Avenue, Working Mother, Thrive Global, Introvert Dear, HR Daily Advisor, LinkedIn, and via her blog and social media channels. 

In November 2018, Kelli left corporate America to start her leadership coaching practice, but by July 2020, Kelli had lost over 80% of her income due to pandemic-related canceled contracts and events. Kelli used the gap in her schedule as an opportunity to pivot her business to focus exclusively on coaching women leaders. Through her years of corporate experience, Kelli recognized that there was a lack of training programs that focused specifically on women’s strengths and addressed the unique challenges they face in the workplace.

Even so, she was not aware at the time of how important this work would be in the upcoming months as women were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Kelli’s coaching work focused on issues that include how to speak up at work, manage the extra workload that women frequently carry, set boundaries, and navigate career changes to find better pay and work-life balance.

The reinvention of Kelli’s business strategy additionally included offering a unique 8-week leadership program that focuses exclusively on the needs of women. Topics include discovering your leadership strengths, learning to trust your intuition, reducing workloads through delegation, and imposter syndrome. Unlike many traditional leadership programs, Kelli doesn’t help women conform to who their organizations want them to be. Instead, she helps them cultivate their unique gifts and talents so that they can show up as who they are meant to be. 

Kelli asked two clients about what made her work different…

Telkom Indonesia honored as Organization of the Year

The Stevie® Awards, organizer of the world’s premier business awards programs, announced the winners of five Grand Stevie Award trophies in its ninth annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are the only awards to recognize innovation in the workplace throughout the entire 29-nation Asia-Pacific region. All organizations in the region are eligible to submit nominations to the competition.

Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners in the various categories were announced on 21 April. Those awards were determined by the average scores of more than 100 executives worldwide acting as judges in March and April. Winners will be celebrated during a virtual awards ceremony on Wednesday, 29 June at 2:00 pm KST. Registration for the event is now on sale.

The 2022 Grand Stevie® Award for Organization of the Year goes to Telkom Indonesia, with 61.5 award points. Telkom Indonesia has won the Grand Stevie for Organization of the Year for the fifth time in the nine-year history of the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. The organization won for stellar nominations submitted on behalf of itself and subsidiaries Admedika, Infomedia, Metra Digital Media, Nutech Integrasi, and Telkomsigma. “Telkom Indonesia could offer a master class on how to prepare well-researched, well-written, and compelling nominations,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Miller.

This award could not be applied for directly. The award is determined by a points system based on the total number of awards won in the competition, with a Gold Stevie win counting for 3 points, a Silver Stevie for 2 points, and a Bronze Stevie counting for 1.5.

Grand Stevie Awards are also presented to the highest-rated nomination from the four nations that submitted the most nominations to the competition:

From Australia: the Silver Stevie-winning nomination for Award for Innovative Management in Business Product & Service Industries - Up to 100 Employees, of their CEO, Amreeta Abbott, by Annature, Camp Hill, QLD. 

From China: the Gold Stevie-winning nomination for Award for Innovation in Brand Development entitled “The Ring is building a genuine ‘Urban Nature Community’,” submitted by Brand Head (Beijing) Consulting Limited Liability Company on behalf of Hong Kong Land (Chongqing) Asset Management Company Limited, Beijing.

From India: the Gold Stevie-winning nomination for Award for Innovation in Customer Service Management, Planning & Practice > Computer Industries, submitted by Cisco Systems (I) Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru, Karnataka, entitled “Project Life of PI  – Facilitating seamless Cisco Prime Infrastructure to Cisco DNA Center migration.”

From the Philippines: “Project Shelter: Shell Helps 800,000 Filipinos in Pandemic Response,” the Silver Stevie-winning nomination for Most Valuable Corporate Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic submitted by Shell companies in the Philippines, Taguig, Metro Manila.

The 2022 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards have recognized organizations in 20 nations including Australia, Belarus, Cambodia, China including Hong Kong and Macao, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Nigeria, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Vietnam. More than 900 nominations about innovative achievements in the 29-nation APAC region were considered by the judges this year.

This is the first time that two Silver Stevie-winning nominations have earned Grand Stevies in the same year.

“So many of the nominations we received this year address how organizations and people have met the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, so it makes sense that several of our 2022 Grand Stevie Awards will go to nominations that recognize those efforts” said Stevies president Maggie Miller. “We commend all of this year’s Stevie Award winners for their achievements, and we look forward to celebrating them on 29 June.”

Details about the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards and the 29 June awards ceremony are available at http://Asia.Stevieawards.com. 

Sponsors and partners of the 2022 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards include adobo magazine and PR Newswire Asia.

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global IT services company, sponsored the Technology for the Next Decade, Today categories in The 2022 American Business Awards®, the premier business awards program in the USA.

The Technology for the Next Decade, Today Awards categories recognize leadership, customer experience, and redefining the workplace. This is the 20^th year that The American Business Awards have recognized achievements of organizations operating in the USA, and the fifth year that HCL Technologies has sponsored awards in the competition.

The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie® Award placements from among the following Finalists will be determined over the next week by a specially-convened jury of IT professionals, and the results will be revealed at the 20^th ABA awards banquet in New York on Monday, June 13. The Finalists are:

Excellence in Transforming Business
Finalists
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA: Raymond R. Smelly, Head of IT Foundation Platform
Haemonetics, Boston, MA: Kim Weatherbee, CIO
Laundris Corporation, Manor, TX: Don Ward, CEO
The Mosaic Company, Tampa, FL: Jeff Wysocki, CIO
Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA: Nadeem Kayani, Executive VP & CIO

Leading Through Uncertainty
Finalists
Performance Food Group, Richmond, VA: Don Bulmer, Senior VP & CIO
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO: Kyle Collins, VP & CIO
Stanley Black & Decker, New Britain, CT: Robert Castello, CIO, Global IT Solution Delivery & Employee Experience
Warner Music Group, New York, NY: Ralph Munsen, CIO & Executive VP

Leadership in Nextgen Technology
Finalists
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL: Balaji Rangaswamy, VP, IT&DA Supply Chain
Cox Communications, Atlanta, GA: John Civiletto, VP Technology
Johnson Controls, Glendale, WI: Michael Ellis, Executive VP & Chief Customer and Digital Officer
Light & Wonder, Las Vegas, NV: Rob Bone, Senior VP, Global Systems and Services

New-Normal Digital Transformer
Finalists
Cummins, Inc., Columbus, IN: Prasad Poludasu, Head of CBS IT Services
Dollar General, Goodlettsville, TN: Julie Elmore, CTO
Unum, Chattanooga, TN: Gautam Roy, Senior VP & CTO

All organizations operating in the U.S.A. – large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit - are eligible to submit nominations to the ABAs in a wide range of categories, honoring achievement in every aspect of work life, from customer service and management to public relations and product development. More than 3,700 nominations, a record number, were reviewed in the judging process this year by more than 240 professionals worldwide, whose average scores determined the winners.

2022 Stevie winners will be celebrated during an awards ceremony on Monday, June 13 at 7 pm ET. Details of the event are available on the website.

The Stevie® Awards announced today the Grand Stevie Award winners in The 20th Annual American Business Awards^® competition. Winners will be honored during the ABAs’ awards banquet on June 13, 2022 in New York City. Registration for the event is now open.

All organizations operating in the U.S.A. - large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit - are eligible to submit nominations to the ABAs in a wide range of categories, honoring achievement in every aspect of work life, from customer service and management to public relations and product development.

This year more than 3,700 nominations were considered in the judging process by more than 240 professionals, whose average ratings determined the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners announced earlier this month. For a complete list of the 2022 Stevie Award winners, visit http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.

Grand Stevie Awards cannot be applied for directly.  Winners are determined by a points system based on the total number of awards won in the ABAs, with a Gold Stevie win counting for 3 points, a Silver Stevie for 2 points, and a Bronze Stevie counting for 1.5. 

2022 Grand Stevie winners in The American Business Awards are as follows:

Highest-rated Nomination of the Year: Ingersoll Rand, Davidson, NC for their Gold Stevie Award-winning nomination for Achievement in Growth.  Ingersoll Rand is a global market leader with a broad range of innovative and mission-critical air, fluid, energy and medical technologies, providing services and solutions to increase industrial productivity and efficiency.

Highest-rated New Product or Service of the Year: Wind River, Alameda, CA for Wind River Studio, Gold Stevie winner for Best Cloud Infrastructure Solution.  Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. The company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of devices and systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Highest-rated COVID-19 Response Category Nomination: TTEC Holdings, Inc., Englewood, CO for Labor + Tech + Speed, the TTEC Rapid Response Solution, Gold Stevie winner for Most Valuable Technical Innovation in response to the pandemic. TTEC Holdings is one of the largest global customer experience (CX) technology and services innovators for end-to-end, digital CX solutions.

Most Honored Marketing Agency: Tinuiti, New York, NY, which earned 26.5 award points for Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie wins across a range of categories, is the winner this year.  The performance marketing firm across Google, Facebook and Amazon has over $3 billion in digital media under management and 1,100 employees.  This is the second consecutive year that Tinuiti has earned this honor.

Most Honored Public Relations Agency: Finn Partners, the global agency with 16 offices in the U.S.A., earned 20 points for Stevie-winning nominations on behalf of clients including Aptive Environmental, BioIQ, Comcast Business, D4t4 Solutions, RallyUp, and Tivity Health.  The agency also earned Grand Stevies in the ABAs in 2015 and 2019.

Organization of the Year: AT&T, Dallas, TX, which earned 32 points for Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevies earned primarily by AT&T Business Multimedia Solutions.  As the first truly modern media company, AT&T has been changing the way people live, work and play for the past 144 years. AT&T also won Grand Stevie Awards in The ABAs from 2013-2016.