The Cazenove Capital Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Are you an inspiring and visionary founder who has proved a concept, built a new business model or demonstrated a track record of successfully scaling businesses?
Have you created value for your team, your investors or the wider community? Why are you an exemplary leader and what can the wider entrepreneurial community learn from your philosophy and approach?
Focusing on the personal contribution of a dynamic leader, this Award recognises an enterprising individual who has achieved sustained growth and strong financial performance by building an engaged and productive team with a culture of innovation and resilience, effective management and inspirational leadership.
Open to individuals operating in the public, private or third sector, this Award will go to an outstanding individual who can best demonstrate:
• Visionary and inspirational leadership
• Identification of an untapped market opportunity
• Optimisation of people and technology
• Strong commercial performance, financial results and profitable growth
Creation of shareholder & stakeholder value
• Potential and plan for sustained growth
• Innovation in products, services or processes
• Customer engagement, loyalty & growth
• An ethical approach and profit with purpose
SCORING
In this category judges will compare the extent to which each candidate has demonstrated excellence in the following areas:
Employee & Customer Engagement 20%
- How have you attracted, retained, motivated and optimised your team to help you win or retain clients?
- What talent strategies, workforce models or initiatives have improved employee engagement, increased productivity and enabled you to achieve your growth objectives?
- Provide case study examples and top line data to demonstrate how you have increased your customer base or market penetration over the last 18 months.
Leadership & Innovation 30%
- Evidence how you have created an innovation culture, proved the business model for your idea, or successfully scaled an innovative product, solution or service.
- How has your leadership philosophy or management structure driven growth or supported scale?
- How have you optimised new technology, platforms or blended / flexible workforce solutions to improve customer service or productivity?
Financial Performance & Growth 30%
- Describe the market opportunity you identified and your point of competitive differentiation.
- Explain your key growth metrics, including financial targets, KPIs, timescales and overall ambitions plus examples of milestones and barriers/challenges that have been overcome.
- Briefly outline your personal story including your career to date, successes and failures, leadership qualities, how you seek to inspire others and how this has benefited your existing business.
- How has your company performed against your growth plan and what will help you to sustain future growth?
- Show examples and/or case studies of what has supported, or will drive further, commercial success.
Purpose Beyond Profit 20%
- How has your guiding mission, values or purpose aligned with growth objectives?
- What is your company doing to improve environmental, social or governance impact and how are these initiatives aligned with commercial success?
- How does your approach to diversity, equity and inclusion align purpose with profit and how has this differentiated your business or made you more competitive?
