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2023 Winners

Board Member of the Year

Winner: Stewart Desson

Best Business Psychology Practitioner

Winner: Louisa Scanlan

Best Business Psychology Supplier

Winner: CAJA Ltd

Best Business Psychology Team (In House)

Winner: Natwest Group
Highly Commended: Civil Service Fast Stream and Emerging Talent

Best Business Psychology Consultancy

Winner: Affinity Health at Work
Highly Commended: Tailored Thinking

Bespoke and Customized Assessment

Winner: Vinted and Sten10
Highly Commended: Talogy

Specialist Assessment & Selection

Winner: Amberjack and Virgin Atlantic
Highly Commended: LHH

Early Career Assessment and Selection

Winner: Saville Assessment
Highly Commended: SHL

Innovation

Winner: MindGym and Citi
Highly Commended: HireVue

Digital Technology

Winner: Talogy & the Cabinet Office
Highly Commended: Amberjack and Virgin Atlantic

Change Management: Public Sector

Winner: Caja Ltd
Highly Commended: Affinity Health at Work

Change Management: Private Sector

Winner: Psychology Works
Highly Commended: The Work Psychologists

Talent Management

Winner: ETS (Expert Training Systems PLC)
Highly Commended: Lumina

L&D Techniques and Tools

Winner: SHL
Highly Commended: Affinity Health at Work

L&D Strategies for Operational Excellence

Winner: MindGym and Citi
Highly Commended: Rebekah Giffney Consulting

Bespoke L&D for Leadership and Management

Winner: Arup
Highly Commended: ETS & Gatehouse Bank

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion: Public Sector

Winner: Work Psychology Group and College of Policing
Highly Commended: Amberjack and Police Now

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion: Private Sector

Winner: HireVue
Highly Commended: Vinted and Sten10

Social Impact

Winner: Lumina Learning
Highly Commended: Perform and Grow Ltd

Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)

Winner: Arup
Highly Commended: Lumina

Health and Wellbeing

Winner: Aneurin Bevan University Health Board / NHS Wales
Highly Commended: Hogrefe

Employee Engagement

Winner: ETS (Expert Training Systems PLC)
Highly Commended: MindGym and Citi

Coaching

Winner: The Work Psychologists
Highly Commended: Café Coach

Peter Saville Rising Star

Winner: Chris Lovell

Chair’s Choice

Winner: MindGym and Citi

2022 Winners

Excellence in Learning & Development

Winner: Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult supported by Lumina Learning
The Build, Boost, and Beyond Programme – self and team development through effective use of team charters and communication commitments.
Runner Up: Arup & Autoridad para la Reconstrucción con Cambios
Applying modern learning strategies to optimise knowledge transfer between the UK and Peru on a major reconstruction programme

Excellence in Diversity, Equality & Inclusion

Winner: Lantern Training, Inemmo & Lumina Learning
Deep diversity discussions supporting individual and team development in the refugee camps of Kakuma, Dadaab and elsewhere in Kenya
Runner Up: Equiida & Adevinta
Enabling organisational culture change and building a DEI movement within Adevinta

Excellence in Strategy & Organisational Effectiveness

Winner: Aneurin Bevan NHS Health Board
Re-engaging the workforce post-Covid19 at the Aneurin Bevan Health Board in NHS Wales
Runner Up: Peoplewise
Building a values-led culture for a business in the utilities industry to drive their new vision and net zero targets.

Business Psychology for Social Impact

Winner: Work Psychology Group
Development and Practical Application of an Evaluation Framework to Explore and Improve Widening Access into Medicine
Runner Up: Arup & HS2
High Speed Towards Net Zero Carbon: Creating a Carbon Culture Shift at High-Speed Two Ltd. (HS2)

Excellence in Assessment & Selection

Winner: Work Psychology Group Assessment & Selection
Independent Review of the Statutory Consultation process, part of the selection process for Judicial appointments: Investigating fairness, reliability, & utility.
Runner Up: SHL
How SHL helped one of the world’s largest Human Resources Providers accelerate worldwide recruitment.

Excellence in Innovation

Winner: Mindset Practice Ltd
Transforming Dstl STEM talent – a blended learning mindset development solution using applied humanistic psychology, digital-experiential activities, integrated psychometrics and 360
Runner Up: Network Rail
Great Together

Excellence in Health & Wellbeing

Winner: University of Leicester
Resilient Senior Leaders Programme (RESLEAPS) for UK Police Superintendents and Chief Superintendents
Runner Up: Arup
A reflective approach to supporting workforce wellbeing. (Confidential rail client)

Outstanding Student Achievement

Winner: Zircon
The Research, Design, and Validation of the BeTalent Self-Belief Questionnaire During my BSc Placement Year
Runner Up: Hanover
Being Invited to The White Male’s Party, To Dance the White Male’s Dance – Representations of Gender & Race on Pro-Diversity Websites Using Critical Discourse Analysis.

Chair’s Award

Winner: Lucy Brewster – Lantern Training

2021 Winners

Excellence in Customised Assessment

Winner: Amberjack
Runner Up: Sten10
An Animated Situational Judgement Test with Unlocked Graduates – Life as a Prison Officer

Excellence in Advancing Assessment Experiences

Winner: Vima
Runner Up: Goldsmiths, University of London
Creating and Validating an Image-Based Measure of the Big Five

Excellence in Inclusive Assessment Experiences

Winner: NatWest Group
Runner Up: PSI
BT Graduates – Achieving the Pinnacle: Comprehensive Performance Prediction & Proven End-to-End Fairness Across Candidate Groups

Excellence in Change Management

Winner: Arup
Runner Up: North Highland
GSK Interventions Design Lab – pioneering human-centric change and succeeding in a complex landscape

Excellence in Learning Interventions

Winner: Athena Professional
Runner Up: Gooding & Wood Ltd
noodle – digital bite-size learning for managers

Excellence in Development Interventions

Winner: Leader Conversations
Runner Up: SRS Recruitment and Employability Experts
Supporting students to secure placements and graduate roles, by increasing their confidence, knowledge and overall employability

Excellence in Embracing Diversity

Winner: Dave Houchin
Runner Up: Amberjack
Our Approach to Monitoring D&I and Continuous Improvements – Police Now with Amberjack

Excellence in Improving Inclusion

Winner: The People Deal
Runner Up: Athinka Ltd and Alumni Global
Not Your Usual Unconscious Bias Training: Reducing bias in people decisions with an evidence-based approach

Excellence in Health and Wellbeing

Winner: Arup
Runner Up: PeopleWise
Defeating stress and boosting well-being through Positive Resilience at a global real estate giant

Excellence in Technical Innovation

Winner: ALiGN by Otec, Ryerson Magnet and Lumina Learning
Runner Up: Here2there.me Ltd
Here2there.me (H2t) – an online person-centred planning and outcomes recording tool

Excellence in Using Business Psychology for Social Impact

Winner: Inemmo / Lumina Learning
Runner Up: Project Leap
Taking a LEAP: A Kindness Initiative

Chair’s Award for Excellence in Business Psychology

Winner: Project Leap

2020 Winners

Excellence in Using Innovative Technology

Winner: Schroders AON

Excellence in Assessment

Winner: Maya Mistry, Saville Assessment with Willis Towers Watson

Excellence in Change Management

Winner: Belinda Board, Natural England with PeopleWise

Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion

Winner: Phil Wilson, Civil Service Fast Stream and Talent Team

Excellence in Engagement and Employee Experience

Winner: Emma Smith and Nicole Rossiter, ARUP

Excellence in Health and Wellbeing

Winner: Mandy Flanagan, NatWest

Excellence in Using Psychology for Social Impact

Winner: Victoria Roe, Work Psychology Group

Excellence in Learning and Development

Winner: Nicole Rossiter/Arup in conjunction with London Underground

Chair’s Choice for Excellence in Business Psychology

Winner: Mandy Flanagan, NatWest
Excellence in Health and Wellbeing

Honorary Memberships

Recipient: Professor Stephen Benton, formerly of University of Westminster
Introduced the first Business Psychology MSc programme in 1998. Proposed by Dr. Stewart Desson

Recipient: Clodagh O’Reilly
A previous ABP chair who introduced the first awards ceremony in 2013

Volunteer of the Year

Winner: Emma Jennings

Board Member of the Year

Winner: Gonzalo Lopez

2019 Winners

Excellence in Using Psychology for Social Impact

Winner: Emma Morley, Work Psychology Group
Helping doctors make informed career decisions based on their personal preferences: The design and validation of a specialty-choice assessment

Excellence in Assessment

Winner: Kate Bradley & Dean Kempton, TMP Worldwide (A PeopleScout Company)
The impact of Video Interviews on Candidate Experience of a Graduate Recruitment Process

Excellence in Change Management

Winner: Dr Antonio Zarola, Zeal Solutions Ltd
Health, Wellbeing & Culture Assessment and Change – How Zeal Solutions Improved Working Lives in the NHS

Excellence in Learning and Development

Winner: Rachael Lewis, Envision
Using Experiential Learning and a Strengths Based Approach to create Hospice Leaders for the Future

Excellence in Engagement and Employee Experience

Winner: Sarah Clarke, the Occupational Mind Group
Cultural Shift: a proven employee-led initiative to deliver measurable benefits and company turn-around

Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion

Winner: Alexia Delfino, London School of Economics and Political Science
Social identity and selection in frontline jobs: two recruitment field experiments

Excellence in Health and Wellbeing

Winner: James Pollard, Nudge Global
Nudging Employees to Better Financial Futures

Excellence in Using Innovative Technology

Winner: Sara Azimzadeh, Amberjack
Student Recruitment Reimagined – PwC supported by Amberjack

Chair’s Choice Award for Excellence in Business Psychology

Winner: Sarah Clarke, the Occupational Mind Group

Judges’ Award for Innovation

Winner: Sara Azimzadeh, Amberjack

Board Member of the Year

Winner: Nicky Thompson

Volunteer of the Year

Winner: Gonzalo Lopez

Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Association for Business Psychology

Winner: Helen Judson

2018 Winners

Excellence in Assessment

Winner: Ali Shalfrooshan, PSI & Paul Weldon, Government Recruitment Service
The Civil Service Judgement Test: a multimedia mobile-first assessment delivering over half a million pounds in efficiencies for the Civil Service to-date

Excellence in Change Management

Winner: Ruth Patel & Ben Vernazza, OPP – part of CPP – the Myers-Briggs Company
Aligning organisational culture to facilitate the delivery of business goals

Excellence in Coaching and/or Training

Winner: Nicola Adcock, PeopleWise
Aspire Programme – Developing the best talent – ILM Level 3 Certification in Leadership and Management

Excellence in Innovation in Assessment

Winner: Sophie Meaney, Amberjack
Morrisons and Amberjack

Excellence in Employee Engagement

Winner: Antonia Dietmann, HM Courts & Tribunals Service & Susan Dodds, PwC
HM Courts & Tribunals Service: Work in Real Life – Developing our People Proposition

Excellence in Performance Improvement

Winner: Clare Davey, Kier Ltd
Education and enablement – reducing lost time injuries and changing the culture through an interactive person based training module

Excellence in Wellbeing, Health & Inclusiveness

Winner: Charlotte Flaxman, Work Psychology Group
Supporting veterinary graduates to transition smoothly into practice – Evaluation of Professional Development Programme

Excellence in Innovation in Business Psychology

Winner: Lauren Jepson, Vodafone & Dean Callaghan, cut-e – an Aon company
Youth Employment in the Digital World: Vodafone’s Future Jobs Finder

Chair’s Choice Award for Excellence in Business Psychology

Winner: Nicola Adcock, PeopleWise
Aspire Programme – Developing the best talent – ILM Level 3 Certification in Leadership and Management

2017 Winners

Excellence in Assessment

Winner: Ali Shalfrooshan, a&dc with Gillian Goss, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service
Identifying talent to support and revolutionise a modern Fire and Rescue Service

Excellence in Change Management

Winner: Rose Padfield & Emily Sun, The Padfield Partnership
Enabling large-scale organisational transformation through people

Excellence in Coaching and/or Training

Winner: Nicola Jones & Jane Armytage, Athena Professional
Growing Future Talent at City & Country: The Graduate Programme 2014

Excellence in Innovation in Assessment

Winner: Capp & Co for Barclays
Barclays’ Immersive Recruitment Process

Excellence in Employee Engagement

Winner: Claire Jordan, Cummins
Six Significant Conversations for Engagement

Excellence in Performance Improvement

Winner: Antony Roscoe, Kier Group
Kier wished to return to a more holistic view of behaviour, culture and performance improvement

Excellence in Wellbeing, Health & Inclusiveness

Winner: Harriet Western-Williams & Rebecca Milner, Arup
Transforming the driver workplace to reduce road deaths

Excellence in Innovation in Business Psychology

Winner: Diana Barea, Accenture
Accelerating Onboarding at Accenture in 30 Tiny, Digital Steps

Chair’s Choice Award for Excellence in Business Psychology

Winner: Harriet Western-Williams & Rebecca Milner, Arup
Transforming the driver workplace to reduce road deaths

2016 Winners

Excellence in Assessment

Excellence in Candidate Assessment: Stuart Martin, Work Psychology Group’s entry entitled:
Selecting for the future in healthcare: High-stakes admissions into Medical careers to widen access and predict performance.
Excellence in Employee Assessment: Rebecca Stevens, Greater Manchester Police & Work Brighter Ltd’s entry entitled:
A new selection approach, based on measuring leadership potential, for sifting internal candidates applying for promotion to Inspector rank at Greater Manchester Police

Excellence in Change Management

Excellence in Leadership Change Management: Liz Staniforth, John Langford, Dr Phil Alcock, Odyssey Learning and Development and Cofac’s entry entitled:
LD1 – growing strength in leadership at St Ledger Homes (Doncaster)
Excellence in Team Change Management: Brooke Ward, Gier Dugstad’s entry entitled:
From competitors to colleagues: embracing change in a world of ship classification

Excellence in Coaching and/or Training

Excellence in Coaching and/or Training: Nicola Jones, Jane Green-Armytage, Athena Professional, supported by Lumina Learning and City & Country’s entry entitled:
Coaching & Training to deliver results: Developing leadership capability at City & Country
Excellence in Talent Development: Maggie Mosley, PMSL’s entry entitled:
How an evidence-based approach accelerated talent development.

Excellence in Employee Engagement

Excellence in Employee Engagement: Paul Teuton, Ketchum Change’s entry entitled:
Corporate Identity as a business tool: Using Social Identity to achieve strategy
Excellence in Employee Experience: Helena Fernandes, Jane Eccles and Katie Baker:
Enabling a facilitated transition back to the workplace after an extended voluntary break.

Excellence in Innovation in Business Psychology

Winner: Ian McLaren Wallace, Archegyral’s entry entitled:
Archegyral Mapping: Transforming a Cultural Landscape.

Excellence in Performance Improvement

Winner: Maggie Mosley, PMSL’s entry entitled:
Soft skills for hard results: Using psychological techniques to get leverage in management of multi-million pound building projects.

Chair’s Choice Award for Excellence in Business Psychology

Winner: Maggie Mosley, PMSL’s entry entitled:
How an evidence-based approach accelerated talent development.

2015 Winners

Excellence in Change Management

Winner:Allison Brooks of Capita Health Partners for Supporting Learning Culture Change in Healthcare

Excellence in Coaching Interventions

Winner:Jonathan Passmore of Embrion Ltd for Developing High Performance Cultures – Development Programme for Leaders in Safety Critical Environments

Excellence in Employee Assessment

Winner:Jessica Pryce-Jones of iOpener Institute for People and Performance for Assessing and Evaluating Senior Leadership Teams

Excellence in Employee Engagement

Winner:Tasmin Parker and Alan Williams of LifeSearch and SERVICEBRAND GLOBAL for Awaken… Connect… Action

Excellence in Inclusivity

Winner:Philip Wilson of Civil Service Fast Stream for Developing and Delivering a Social Mobility Strategy

Excellence in Performance Improvement

Winner:Guy Bloom of Blue Sky Performance Improvement for Empower: Excellence Through People

Excellence in Recruitment Assessment

Winner:Louise Faulkes of Cubiks Ltd for Using an Online Assessment Tool to Engage and Develop the Boots UK pipeline of future pharmacists

Excellence in Training & Development

Winner: Steve Apps of Persona Partnership for Impact equals Success

Excellence in Wellbeing Interventions

Winner: Joy Maitland and Colleen Amos of Inemmo and CA Amos Associates for The Progression Programme

Excellent Innovation in Business Psychology

Winner: Kam Somal of RSA Group for Culture Health Assessments Following a Business Crisis

Outstanding Student Achievement

Winner: Matthew Atkinson of YSC Ltd for Assessors’ Beliefs and Attitudes towards their Role; an Innovative Investigation into Assessor Severity-leniency

2014 Winners

Excellence in Coaching and Training of Specialists

Winner: Hugo Poundr.d.i

Excellence in Developmental Interventions

Winner: Steve Apps, Persona Partnership & Kate Hodges, Zurich Community Trust

Excellence in Employee Assessment

Winner: Sally Bibb, Engaging Minds & Katherine Fenton, Shelford Group

Excellence in Employee Engagement

Winner: Stefan Cantore, Converse7 Ltd

Excellence in Health and Wellbeing

Winner: Dave Pickles & Maddy Petzer, Siemens Building Technologies

Excellence in Inclusiveness

Winner: Colleen Amos & Joy Maitland

Excellence in Leadership Assessment

Winner: Richard Ogden, Quest Partnership, Anne Hamill, Talent & Potential Ltd & Francoise Woodward, EDF Energy plc

Excellence in Leadership Change Management

Winner: Steve Carter, Marie Shelton & Maggi Evans, Apter Development

Excellence in Leadership Coaching

Winner: Fiona Parashar, Leadership Coaching Limited

Excellence in Organisational Change Management

Winner: Natalie Holt, Nigel Guest, Sarah Atkinson, Tim Gardener, Scott McCullum & Jan Vyjidak

Excellence in Performance Improvement

Winner: Bryan McCrae, Sales-Motivations working with Merial

Excellence in Recruitment Assessment

Winner: Nicky Ivory-Chapman, Reputation & Resourcing Department, McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd

Excellence in Sustaining Engagement during Change

Winner: PLANTRONICS

Excellence in Team-based Change Management

Winner: Joy Maitland & Colleen Amos

Excellence in Training

Winner: Dr Itiel Dror

Outstanding Student Achievement

Winner: Maddy Petzer, Southampton Solent University supervision of Dr Graham Benmore

Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Business Psychology

Winner: Dr Itiel Dror

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