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