WIG Leadership Impact Award 2019

 

About the Award: 


Developing leaders with insight and experience across the sectors is at the heart of WIG’s core purpose. We believe that enabling collaboration empowers innovation. That’s how we will all be flexible and successful during uncertain times. 

In 2017 we launched our first WIG Leadership Impact Award, recognising the impact of learning in a cross sector environment. This year we are inviting submissions from alumni of WIG leadership programmes as well as those who have benefited from a WIG talent offer such as a secondment or mentor (inc Charity Next).

Applicants should be able to demonstrate how learning in a WIG context has had a significant positive impact on their own leadership practice, their ability to lead teams and who have made a real difference within and beyond their organisations.

We would like to recognise the great work that WIG alumni do in the field of leadership and capture how that has been informed by cross-sector learning. We will be presenting the award at our Annual Reception on 7 March 2019.

Our 2018 short-listed finalists:

  • Jenny Bates, Director, EU Exit and Economic Partnerships, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

  • Toni Clark, Head of Customer Journeys, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)

  • Michelle Cupples, Head of Communications to the Cabinet Office Chief Operating Officer, Cabinet Office

  • Daniel Knight, Publishing Manager, The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

  • Natasha Munro, Global News Executive, British Airways

Our 2019 awards panel:

Phil Thomson

President, Global Affairs, GSK & Chair of WIG

Phil is President of Global Affairs at GSK and a member of the Group’s Corporate Executive Team. He serves as an advisor and representative of the CEO on corporate and business-related matters, with specific responsibilities for the Group’s strategic approach to Reputation, Corporate Responsibility and Global Health. He is also responsible for the Group’s engagement and relationships with investors, media, government and employees; management of the corporate brand; and key global community partnerships.

Phil joined Glaxo Wellcome as a commercial trainee in 1996, and has worked in a number of external-facing roles on matters related to corporate strategy, business performance and reputation. He earned his degree in English, History and Russian Studies from Durham University.

Phil is a Co-Opted Member of the China-Britain Business Council and is Chairman of The Whitehall & Industry Group.

Peter Unwin

Chief Executive, The Whitehall & Industry Group

Peter joined the Whitehall & Industry Group as Chief Executive in April 2015.

Peter was Director General, Policy Delivery, at DEFRA until March 2015. Peter joined DEFRA in February 2007, having previously been Director General for Corporate Delivery in the Department for Communities and Local Government. Peter first joined the Civil Service as a statistician and held posts in the Inland Revenue, Cabinet Office and Ministry of Defence before joining the Department of Environment in 1983. He transferred to policy work and held various posts in local government, finance and urban policy before working on the environment and climate change, leading the official delegation to the 1997 Kyoto Conference. He was the Deputy Prime Minister’s Private Secretary from 1998 to 2001.

Peter read Maths at Cambridge. He is married with three children and lives in Chislehurst. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, watching sport (supporting Liverpool), hill walking, Italy, food and wine.

Rachel Sandby-Thomas CB

Registrar, University of Warwick and WIG Board Member

 

WIG Leadership Awards Criteria

WIG Leadership Impact Award

  1. Participation on a WIG leadership programme or secondment.

  2. Evidence of the benefits of learning in a cross-sector environment and how that learning has been implemented to meaningful impact.

  3. Examples of evidence of impact on:
    - Their own leadership
    - Their team
    - Their organisation as a whole
    - The wider system/outside of their home organisation
    - Customer/service user benefits

  4. Compelling endorsement of impact by key stakeholder

 

WIG Emerging Leader Award

  1. Participation on a WIG leadership programme or secondment (e.g. Charity Next).

  2. Evidence of the benefits of learning in a cross-sector environment early in your career and how that learning has been implemented to meaningful impact.

  3. Examples of evidence of impact on:
    - Their own leadership
    - Their team
    - Their organisation or wider system or customer/service user

  4. Plan for how they are going to continue using cross-sector learning in their developing leadership practice.

  5. Compelling endorsement of impact by key stakeholder

 

Terms and Conditions

  • Submissions can only be accepted from WIG leadership programme and secondment alumni.

  • Finalists will be interviewed and recorded. The content of this application and any video interview will remain the property of WIG and can be used in WIG related marketing.

  • The decision of the Awards Panel will be final.

  • If shortlisted, we would like you to attend the Award Ceremony as part of the WIG Annual Reception 2019 on the 7 March 2019.

  • By submitting an application, you agree to participate in any publicity including photos/videos after the event.

To apply and find out more:

The closing date to apply by is 9 January 2019.
We will announce the winners at our Annual Reception on Thursday 7 March 2019. 

To find out more about the award, email us or call us on 020 7222 1166 and speak to Lorraine King or Roy Johnson.

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