Winners of the Conscious Companies Awards 2021

VISIONARY LEADER CELEBRATED

In a year of dramatic change, brought about by the onslaught of an invisible microbe, looting and economic fallout, the annual Conscious Companies Awards, in partnership with Primeserv and BNP Paribas, was a Level 3 lockdown gala celebration attended by 50 people at the Venue, Melrose Arch and livestreamed around the globe.

“The calibre of entries this year is of a very high quality and the concept of a conscious company is changing the mind-set of how companies operate” said Prof Mervyn King, chairman of the Conscious Companies judging panel. Bruno Oliehoek, CEO of Nestlé East & Southern Africa region, was announced the winner in the business category. The winner in the NGO category was founder Irené Pieters and her CEO Debbie Zelezniak from Santa Shoebox.

The Conscious Companies Awards have over the years encouraged and nurtured leadership to surrender to a new way of being to develop a much needed ethical, honourable and responsible way of doing business, at a time when true leadership around the globe is floundering and in a state of flux.

Conscious Companies trigger a chord in most business leaders who want to make a meaningful impact, define their companies and do things differently. The drive to expand corporate consciousness - where the leader guides his company to prosper, perform and pursue profits while placing a premium on people, community, culture and the environment beyond the bottom line - has gained enormous traction. The essential understanding of values and ethics, reason and justice, meaning and purpose to transform and uplift society, without losing sight of performance and profit, catapults an organisation into the Top 10 finalists from hundreds of nominations received.