Meaningful Business 100 2025 for Business Leaders – YOA

Deadline: June 15, 2025

Nominations at the moment are open for the seventh version of the Meaningful Business 100 award programme, which champions leaders combining revenue and objective. Comprising company CEOs, sustainability leaders, impression traders, entrepreneurs and micro-entrepreneurs, the MB100 cuts throughout geography, business, function and firm dimension to recognise excellent work being performed to unravel probably the most urgent social and environmental points we face as we speak.

The 12 months-lengthy award programme consists of professional-bono providers from their companions, EY, Hogan Lovells, Babson College and Innovision, and offers entry to funding alternatives, potential clients, capability constructing assets and a worldwide group of friends.

They are trying for probably the most impactful enterprise leaders for the seventh version of the Meaningful Business 100 award. From social entrepreneurs and impression traders to company sustainability leaders, MB100 winners work throughout sectors, geographies, function sorts and SDGs, however share a dedication to utilizing enterprise to profit individuals’s lives and the planet.

Benefits

Selected by an professional panel of judges, winners go on to take part in a 12 months-spherical programme supported by business-main organisations, providing:

• (*100*)-bono providers and capability-constructing assets.
• Investment alternatives and profile-elevating actions.
• Access to an interdisciplinary, curated community of friends.

Eligibility

Each chief will need to have:

• Created optimistic, direct and supposed impression aligned to a number of SDGs within the final 12 months
• Been the driving drive behind the product, service or undertaking that mixes objective and revenue.

Judging Criteria

• Originality of the concept behind the product, service or undertaking
• Longevity of the product, service or undertaking
• Intersectionality – how profitable is the product in creating impression throughout a number of SDGs?
• Localisation – is the services or products serving to native communities take higher management of their lives?
• Scalability of the product, service or undertaking – is it replicable?
• Inclusion – is there a deal with illustration of minority teams?
• Collaboration – has the chief made finest use of the core competencies of various stakeholders, and inspired them to work collectively?
• Affordability – what stage of funding did the services or products require? (Low funding, excessive impression services or products shall be favoured)
• Use of innovation/know-how to energy the product, service or undertaking
• Is the chief a job mannequin for, and champion of, significant enterprise past their very own firm?

Application

The deadline for entries is Sunday, fifteenth June, 2025.

Click here to nominate

For extra info, go to Meaningful Business 100.