This award seeks to recognise medium / small organisations that demonstrate strong links between achieving business goals and executing learning and development strategies that boost employee and leadership skills and improve performance.

Successful entries will demonstrate building a culture that embraces learning and development, coaching, managing performance, innovative approaches to change, as well as encouraging feedback and openness on development needs.

Entrants are encouraged to show how their approach has taken, not only current business needs into consideration, but also skills gaps critical to future business success, as well as the employee experience and voice. Entries will provide a clear description of the business objectives that prompted the learning and development needs, how their approach was developed and rolled out, and explain how effectiveness was measured