Each year, female small business owners and entrepreneurs are recognized along with women executives from global corporations such as IBM, Mastercard, and Microsoft. Past winners include:
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The 23rd Annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business
Recognizing excellence in women-led achievement across every industry. The Stevie® Awards for Women in Business are the world’s premier business awards honoring female entrepreneurs, executives, employees, and the organizations they run.
Request your entry kit today to learn how to submit nominations. Join the pantheon of distinguished Stevie® Award winners such as AT&T Business, Salesforce, It's a 10, and Watsons.
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For more than 20 years, the Stevie® Awards for Women in Business have shined a spotlight on women and women-owned and led organizations of every type and size worldwide: large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit. The 2025 competition attracted more than 1,500 nominations from 48 nations.
Female entrepreneurs, executives, employees, and the organizations they run, worldwide, are eligible to be nominated. With more than 200 categories spanning a wide range of workplace achievements, you can submit nominations that showcase your unique impact and values. The 2026 program introduces new categories recognizing achievements in artificial intelligence and technology.
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Stevie Award Winners are celebrated around the world at our red-carpet awards galas, where they present an acceptance speech on stage before an audience of hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements among the 2025 Finalists were announced at a gala awards banquet attended by nearly 600 nominees, judges, and guests from around the world on November 10 in New York City.
Winners in the 2026 competition will be revealed and celebrated on November 16 during the awards banquet of the 23rd Stevie Awards for Women in Business at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Finalists will be pre-announced in September, and the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements among those Finalists will be revealed live during the awards ceremony. Attendance is optional and not required to win, but all Finalists are invited to join the ceremony, network with hundreds of women business leaders and entrepreneurs worldwide, and enjoy professional photography and red carpet interviews. Gold Stevie Award winners will be invited to deliver an acceptance speech on stage.Visit our FAQ page for more details about the ceremony.
Explore Other Stevie® Awards Competitions
Whatever your organization is seeking recognition for, there is a Stevie Awards program and category for it. From individual professionals and teams to departments and company-wide accomplishments, each of our nine awards programs feature hundreds of categories recognizing excellence across every facet of work life.