Most Influential CEO Awards

“Never mistake the power of influence” Jim Rohn.

CEO Monthly Magazine has been celebrating CEOs since we published our inaugural issue back in 2017. It’s no secret that what we perceive as a good leader today, is very different to what it would have been twenty years ago. Modern leadership has been borne out of the complexities of modern workplaces and the increasingly diverse team members working within them.

It takes a lot of things to become a truly great leader, but one thing is for sure; to be effective in leading an organisation big or small, influence is a fundamental element.

CEO Monthly Magazine’s Most Influential CEOs are handpicked by us every month, based on our own comprehensive analysis and research. It’s not just a vanity list of the typical household names but it’s a real-world representation of those who influence and lead within their organisations every single day.

We select the nominees, asses them against our criteria and make the judgement on whether they meet the standards required to pass to the next stage. We consider how influence impacts the organisation’s strategy, performance, consistency, adaptability, communication, forward planning, emotional intelligence, and culture and values. We look to celebrate CEOs who consistently show noteworthy leadership qualities, which are lived and breathed through their organisations.

Our winners are undeniably influential and undeniably effective.

Those that succeed will be presented with a choice of marketing options, which are explicitly designed to promote the winner and the organisation. Our marketing packages have been skilfully designed to boost the coverage and promotion of the news. The main vehicle for announcing the news is by featuring our winners within an edition of our monthly digital magazine, this platform offers essential publicity and is a reliable source and location for you to link to when you’re sharing the information within your own network.

We also recommend entries in our A-Z directory and inclusion in our annual winner’s supplement, again both excellent tools for linking and sharing.

We take pride in our policy that irrespective of budget, our awards provide our winners with a chance to promote themselves across our network and theirs, we can help to increase the size of their digital footprint and to stand out in a competitive arena.

The CEO Monthly Magazine team work attentively to distinguish the most relevant and eligible CEOs for consideration in the awards. They subscribe to all the key business news sources; they absorb industry specific news via our relevant networks, they monitor the growth lists and people moves via our own extensive database, and they conduct full and thorough investigations to formalise nominees before they pass them over to the next stage, Research.

Our in-house research team assess each nominee independently. They verify the reasons for selection and are tasked with linking this to evidence via a wide range of sources, largely available within the public domain. This includes news articles, journals, corporate websites, members associations, professional directories, press releases and other published work. Criteria includes education, experience, third-party corporate recognition, physical and digital presence, client testimonials, investor reviews, products and services and corporate progression.

Once our recipients are agreed, our Brand Coordinator contacts them each individually to discuss their inclusion and next steps. We create some distance between the public announcement to allow for wider corporate communications and the coordination of marketing strategies. We ask the winners to “accept” the award privately before anything is published and depending on the level of coverage they agree, this will be formalised via our monthly digital magazine, the annual winners supplement, or the A-Z directory.

There are no compulsory costs associated with accepting the award; our winners are invited to feature in our A-Z directory on an entirely complimentary basis. We encourage our winners to spread the good news across their own website and social media channels to capitalise on the success. Afterall, what’s the point of winning an award if you don’t tell anyone! We do also offer several paid for options, these are for winners who seek to maximise the potential of the award via supplementary coverage. These packages offer varying levels of exposure across our platform and include skilfully produced promotional resources designed to increase the coverage.

Most Influential CEO Awards (2024)