Chair's Award

The Chair’s Award is conferred annually upon volunteer IABC members whose efforts, which include positively enhancing the organization’s reputation and image, have gone above and beyond that of what volunteers may usually undertake. Selected by the international executive board (IEB) Chair, any current IABC member active for the previous five years may be nominated for the award.

The Chair’s Award is presented annually at IABC’s World Conference. In June 2024, IABC Chair Maliha Aqeel, PMP, SCMP, MC named the IABC Organizational Design Task Force 2.0 as the recipient of the 2024 Chair’s Award. 

The IABC Organizational Design Task Force 2.0 includes the following members, who are all joint recipients of the 2024 Chair's Award:

Steering Committee: 

  • Alain Legault, SCMP
  • Amanda Hamilton-Atwell, Ph.D., ABC, CPRP, IABC Fellow
  • Ann-Marie Blake, Chart.PR, FCIPR
  • Brad Whitworth, ABC, SCMP, IABC Fellow
  • Danielle Bond, SCMP, GAICD
  • Gabrielle Loring
  • Jordan Nagel, MBA
  • Michael Blackburn, SCMP

Finance Subcommittee: 

  • Ann-Marie Blake, Chart.PR, FCIPR
  • Brad Whitworth
  • Gloria Walker, ABC, FRSA, FHEA, FCSCE
  • Samantha Rae Ayoub, MA, CMP
  • Opeyemi Adeyemi, FNIPR, CMC

Change Management Subcommittee:

  • Amanda LeNeve, SCMP
  • Colin Hensley
  • Elsabe Coetzee
  • Jordan Nagel, MBA
  • Kim Strickland
  • Larand Lancaster
  • Mandy Gibson, SCMP
  • Gabrielle Loring

Governance Subcommittee: 

  • Brandon Babcock
  • Danielle Bond, SCMP, GAICD
  • Gabrielle Loring
  • Ginger Homan, ABC, SCMP, IABC Fellow
  • Jaye Bowers
  • Jenni Field
  • Jodie Lush
  • Michael Blackburn, SCMP
  • Tammy Nienaber, SCMP
  • Wendy Thatcher, SCMP

Past Winners

2023
The IABC Organizational Design Task Force

2022
Matt Tidwell, Ph.D., APR, Alexandra Hichel, Rick Alcantara

2021
Neil Griffiths, ABC, Chart.PR, IABC Fellow

2021
Zora Artis, GAICD, SCMP, FAMI, CPM

2020
Ginger Homan, ABC, SCMP

2019
Alain Legault, BA, MA, SCMP

2018
Jennie Lamb

2017
Jan Graves

2017
Michael Zimet

2016
Ginger Homan, ABC, SCMP

2015
Zora Artis, GAICD, SCMP, FAMI, CPM