ACE Awards

Submissions for the 2023 HBA ACE Awards have now closed. 

Winners to be announced in Fall 2023. 

Whether your program is wide in scope like an internal women’s network or more specific like a reducing the gender pay gap plan, we encourage you to submit for a chance to bring well-deserved recognition to your team’s effort and impact. What’s important is whether your program is effective. All industry sectors and company sizes are considered. Here’s a look at some of our recent ACE Award winning initiatives: 

• Pfizer UK’s Closing the Gender Pay Gap initiative pledged to become as diverse as the patients and communities it serves, addressing the issues that stand in the way of their purpose, leading them to a DEI score of 100 percent.
• BD established a by-associates-for-associates strategy for objective-based mentoring programs leveraging the tool to support associates from diverse backgrounds to find the support needed to propel their success.
• Walgreens Boots Alliance set performance goals to increase women and people of color representation in leadership and pivoted from a US-focused to global country-specific Communities of Practice intentionally focusing on intersections of identity.
• GSK's Women’s Leadership Initiative included 7,000 women in 65 countries resulting in promotions to management grade roles of 67 percent of participants in their initial cohort of the first field leadership development initiative for women of color.
• Delix Therapeutics’ Culture from the Start initiative embodies pushing the boundaries of representation in the workplace. Only two years in, there is equal gender representation on the company’s executive team and more than two-thirds of 2022 hires identified as women.