Director of the Year Award Categories

Awarded to a director who has been a leader in guiding the board and executive management in growing the company, and maintaining the ethics and conscience of the board to ensure that everything is done properly.

Awarded to the director who has fostered awareness and implementation of community responsibility using the resources of the company, and by developing a corporate culture and employees who support the community.

Awarded to the director who has brought unique abilities or outside resources to the company through the board position or who has developed creative applications of new resources to improve the company's planning, operations and profitability.

Awarded to the director who has made an outstanding contribution to his or her not-for-profit board and to the organization with regard to board governance.

Awarded to the director who has contributed to taking the company through changes such as early start-up, mergers, acquisitions, changes in management or in managing other changes to a positive and productive conclusion.

Awarded to the director who has demonstrated superior leadership over several years in ensuring consistency of board discipline, maintaining ethics and conscience of the board, and guiding his or her organization(s) to higher levels of creativity and performance.