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TALENT MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP

The Talent Management Leadership award honors those who nurture and develop a new generation of leaders. They recruit bright new minds and find creative ways to build an innovative, engaged, and diverse workforce for the future.

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Eligibility & Criteria

  • An Individual, Company, Public Entity
  • Demonstrates significant contributions to the offshore wind profession, including attracting and growing a diverse pipeline of young talent.
  • Consistently supports and mentors existing young talent (provide examples or testimonials.)
  • Illustrates measurable, sustainable change as a result of the project including baselines, metrics, and key performance indicators.
  • Includes program elements that can be replicated with in the industry.


    Business Network board members, Awards Committee, and jurors are ineligible to submit for individual awards during their terms of service. Their company is still permitted to submit a nomination, in which case the individual Board member, committee member, or juror will be recused from judging for that category.

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Process & Submission Requirements

Application materials must be submitted as a single PDF file via the online portal. Use the Award Nomination Template to create your submission. Each page must include the entry category, project title (as applicable), and page number at the top. Use 12-point Times New Roman font, single space. The Award Application submission should include: 

  • Title page: Include the name (individual/company/organization), project name, and project location (as applicable).  
  • Nomination Overview: Include the Nominated Name (individual/company/organization); Nominating Name (if different entity); Submitting Individual/s name, email; Nominated Point of Contact/s name, email; Short Description (75 words or less).  
    NOTE: This description will provide the basis for all publicity for the nomination.  
  • Executive Summary (max 500 words): A brief overview of the project. Explain all factors that exhibit the project’s uniqueness and complexity, such as innovative engineering, challenges faced, and overall social impact.  
  • Description (min 300 words | max 2,000 words): Address the criteria for the category you are entering. Describe why this project is worthy of special recognition. Entrants may use text, photos, graphics, organizational charts as needed.  
  • Overview (do not exceed 5 pages): Showcase organizational information, project description/approach (including problem solved, if applicable), implementation strategy, results and outcomes, as well as outlines key participants/team members, owner/client (if applicable), and images. Access the Submission Template. 
  • Images: High resolution headshot or group photo and company logo (300 dpi). 

All applicants will be judged solely on their submitted materials.

past winners

2021 Talent Management Leadership - Jennifer Palestrant

2021 Talent Management Leadership
Jennifer Palestrant

2022 Talent Management Leadership
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2023 Talent Management Leadership
Shafin Khan

Past Award Winner

Award winner