2027 Workplace Kindness Award Nominations
Recognize an organization or individual leader building a kinder workplace. Self-nominations are welcome.
Submit a 2027 Nomination
Tell us who deserves recognition and why. Fields marked * are required; a personal email is optional.
If nominating a leader personally, enter the organization they lead or work for.
For an organization nomination, use the work email of the person we should contact.
A backup address for the nominee or organization contact, in case workplace email filters block communication. Only provide it if you have permission to share it.
For an individual leader, enter the country where they are based. For an organization, enter its primary country of operation.
So we can give you the credit for shining a light on the nominee.
Before you submit your nomination, please know: we'll reach out to the organization or leader you're nominating to share the good news — and we'll include your name and email address so they can acknowledge your belief in them.
When you submit the nomination, you are agreeing that you consent to this information being shared with the nominated person or organization.
Award Categories
I. Organizational Awards (Annual)
Recognizing companies embedding kindness into the fabric of how they operate.
Workplace Kindness Award — Growing Company
Under 1,000 employees. Recognizes a small or mid-size organization that has built a workplace where kindness, humanity, and respect are core to how people work together and succeed.
Under 1,000 employees. Recognizes a small or mid-size organization that has built a workplace where kindness, humanity, and respect are core to how people work together and succeed.
Corporate Kindness Award — Enterprise
1,000+ employees or multinational · Annual
Recognizes a large or multinational organization that has embedded kindness into leadership, culture, and operations at scale, whether that means thousands of employees, teams spread across regions, or both. Proving that size and complexity don't have to cost you the human touch.
1,000+ employees or multinational · Annual
Recognizes a large or multinational organization that has embedded kindness into leadership, culture, and operations at scale, whether that means thousands of employees, teams spread across regions, or both. Proving that size and complexity don't have to cost you the human touch.
Emerging Kindness Leader — Start-Up
Companies under 3 years old. Recognizes an early-stage company intentionally building a culture of kindness and humanity from the very beginning of its journey.
Companies under 3 years old. Recognizes an early-stage company intentionally building a culture of kindness and humanity from the very beginning of its journey.
II. Leadership Awards (Annual)
Celebrating individuals who lead with empathy, humanity, and courage. Kindness lives at every level — and these awards prove it.
Kindness in Leadership Award — CEO
Recognizes a CEO who has made kindness a defining principle of how they lead — shaping culture, decisions, and the employee experience from the very top.
Recognizes a CEO who has made kindness a defining principle of how they lead — shaping culture, decisions, and the employee experience from the very top.
Kindness in Leadership Award — Senior Executive / Manager
Honors a senior executive or manager who champions human-centered leadership and creates a culture built on empathy, support, and psychological safety. Recognizes leaders who keep people first in their decisions and everyday interactions.
Honors a senior executive or manager who champions human-centered leadership and creates a culture built on empathy, support, and psychological safety. Recognizes leaders who keep people first in their decisions and everyday interactions.
III. Special Recognition Awards (Rotating)
Honoring unique stories, contexts, and communities. These awards rotate — 2–3 are selected each year to keep the ceremony fresh and create anticipation.
Trailblazer Founder Kindness Award
Recognizes a founder whose lived experience and leadership are expanding what kindness in business looks like. Honors founders from historically underrepresented communities who are building organizations where equity, humanity, and belonging are foundational.
Recognizes a founder whose lived experience and leadership are expanding what kindness in business looks like. Honors founders from historically underrepresented communities who are building organizations where equity, humanity, and belonging are foundational.
Family-Owned Business Kindness Award
Recognizes a family-owned organization that has built a culture of care, trust, and responsibility — demonstrating that values-driven leadership can sustain both people and business across generations.
Recognizes a family-owned organization that has built a culture of care, trust, and responsibility — demonstrating that values-driven leadership can sustain both people and business across generations.
Kindness in Action Award — Non-Profit / NGO
Honors a non-profit or NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) that exemplifies extraordinary compassion, humanity, and care in how they serve communities and support their teams.
Honors a non-profit or NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) that exemplifies extraordinary compassion, humanity, and care in how they serve communities and support their teams.
Rising Kindness Leader
Recognizes an emerging leader within the first 10 years of their career who is redefining leadership through empathy, inclusion, and human connection.
Recognizes an emerging leader within the first 10 years of their career who is redefining leadership through empathy, inclusion, and human connection.
Kindness Changemaker Award
Individuals Making Impact in Workplaces · Rotating
Recognizes individuals making an impact on workplaces through intentional acts of kindness, or by building the systems that let kindness flourish. The podcasters, authors, coaches, board members, and volunteers whose work moves the movement forward without a company behind them. One person, real reach.
Individuals Making Impact in Workplaces · Rotating
Recognizes individuals making an impact on workplaces through intentional acts of kindness, or by building the systems that let kindness flourish. The podcasters, authors, coaches, board members, and volunteers whose work moves the movement forward without a company behind them. One person, real reach.
IV. Impact Awards (Rotating)
Recognizing specific practices, transformations, and community impact. These awards celebrate what organizations do, not just who they are.
Kindness Innovation Award
Recognizes a specific practice, policy, or program that represents a creative breakthrough in workplace kindness.
Recognizes a specific practice, policy, or program that represents a creative breakthrough in workplace kindness.
Community Impact Kindness Award
Recognizes any organization — for-profit or non-profit — whose kindness extends meaningfully beyond their walls into their community.
Recognizes any organization — for-profit or non-profit — whose kindness extends meaningfully beyond their walls into their community.