Presenting Sponsor
This premier event of Nashville NAWBO celebrates the best of Nashville’s women in business! This event includes the announcement of the recipients of the Nashville NAWBO Visionary Awards. These awards included: WBO of the Year, Mentor of the Year, Emerging Business Leaders and Diversity Business Owner of the Year. In addition, Nashville NAWBO Corporate Partners are recognized for their support. Celebrity judges, who contribute to the selection process, are also presented at the event.
Calling for nominations! DUE JUNE 6th
Emerging Leader Criteria Over $1M
1. Business submitted for this award must be designed to generate revenue.
2. The main leadership position must be filled by a woman.
3. Business must have growth potential in both profit and employment growth.
4. Award considers the degree of innovation shown by the overall business concept and the uniqueness of the project on the market.
5. Award considers financial impact, revenue model, development strategy and other aspects indicating company’s chances of long-term success and future growth.
6. Impact of the business on society in terms of jobs created or its effect on the immediate or broader environment
Emerging Leader Criteria $250K-1M
1. Business submitted for this award must be designed to generate revenue.
2. The main leadership position must be filled by a woman.
3. Business must have growth potential in both profit and employment growth.
4. Award considers the degree of innovation shown by the overall business concept and the uniqueness of the project on the market.
5. Award considers financial impact, revenue model, development strategy and other aspects indicating company’s chances of long-term success and future growth.
6. Impact of the business on society in terms of jobs created or its effect on the immediate or broader environment
Emerging Leader Criteria Under $250K
1. Business submitted for this award must be designed to generate revenue.
2. The main leadership position must be filled by a woman.
3. Business must have growth potential in both profit and employment growth.
4. Award considers the degree of innovation shown by the overall business concept and the uniqueness of the project on the market.
5. Award considers financial impact, revenue model, development strategy and other aspects indicating company’s chances of long-term success and future growth.
6. Impact of the business on society in terms of jobs created or its effect on the immediate or broader environment
Community Service Criteria
1. Awards are issued for volunteer service only
2. Nominee engages in the creation, organization, and/or mobilization of volunteers, groups and resources that are involved in projects benefiting the greater community
3. Nominee demonstrates sustained commitment to meeting community needs
4. Nominee utilizes unique and creative approaches to meeting needs
5. Nominee develops and fosters the virtues and skills of civic engagement and social responsibility
6. This service must be outside the nominee’s business and must be given without compensation
Diversity Criteria
1. Nominee has established a Diversity Business Enterprise
2. Nominee has sponsored or coordinated programs that have cultivated diversity and inclusion
3. Nominee fosters employees who take positive steps to create a culture and climate of respect and inclusion for diversity in the workplace
Corporate Partner of the Year
1. Must be a current Nashville NAWBO corporate partner
2. Nominee provides outstanding support for NAWBO membership
3. Nominee provides women in business with the tools, resources, and support necessary to build and sustain a thriving business, as well as to improve the climate for future women business ownership
4. Nominee makes commitment to building strategic alliances, coalitions and affiliations with the business community. Their support of our organization is vital to the continuing success of our members by helping us further develop programming, services and procurement opportunities
Lifetime Achievement/WBO of the Year
1. Must be a current Nashville NAWBO member
2. Innovation of product or service offered – an illustration of the creativity and imagination of the nominee
- Specific description of uniqueness of product or service
- Explanation of how product or service differentiates itself in the marketplace
3. Mentoring of other professionals
4. Staying power- a substantiated history as an established business; including:
- Number of years in business
- Expansion of business footprint
- Steady growth in net worth
5. Response to adversity – examples of problems faced in the nominee’s business and the methods used to solve them, including:
- Specific description of financial, physical, legal, or other crisis
- Substantiation of the threat to the continuity of the business
- Defined actions taken by the nominee to resolve the crisis
6. Role model to other women through not only their achievements but also their high ethical standards
