Mortgage Advice Bureau was announced as Overall Winner at the Business Culture Awards 2022. Now in its eighth year, the awards recognise organisations that have taken active steps to create a stand-out business culture.
Mortgage Advice Bureau beat other category winners to take away the top accolade for demonstrating the broadest deployment of its initiative and most comprehensive approach in its methods, when examined both quantitatively and qualitatively. The judges were looking for the highest standards in stakeholder engagement, innovation, strategic alignment, leadership, communication, learning and more.
At an awards ceremony on 5 October in central London, founder of the Business Culture Awards Tim Pointer said this year’s awards were especially relevant because “unprecedented is the word of the year”.
“We have steered our organisations through an unprecedented pandemic; unprecedented changes to the ‘role of the office’ – hybrid isn’t just a car anymore; the phenomena of ‘quiet quitting’; unemployment at its lowest rate since 1974; war in Ukraine; record temperatures of over 40C and soaring energy costs.
“We have responded to the death of our Queen; surging interest rates; stuttering supply chains; strikes by everyone from barristers to port workers to train drivers … and we know it’s not over yet! And still we keep on going.”
He added that organisations choose how they respond in such circumstances.
“It is a choice to put diversity, equity & inclusion at the centre of our work; a choice to support colleagues volunteering in their local communities; a choice to prioritise women’s health; a choice to champion colleague safety; a choice to care for employees’ mental health.
“It is also a choice to advance the products and services that we all rely upon; a choice to create and sustain purposeful workplaces that listen to and engage our colleagues and a choice to have a business culture that does all of this in our constantly changing but always challenging society.”
The People Space was delighted to be media partner once again for the Business Culture Awards and we send our huge congratulations to the winners, highly commended and finalists below:
Business Culture Awards: Overall Winner
Mortgage Advice Bureau
Best Business Transformation Initiative
Winner: Mortgage Advice Bureau + Culture Consultancy
Highly Commended: Hanson UK + Dragon Learning
Finalists: BeLiminal, Carparts.com, Industrial Trading Solutions, Lubbock Fine, Socotec UK, Uniqa
Leading with Purpose for Business Culture
Winner: GAMA Healthcare
Highly Commended: Slalom
Finalists: Netsurit, Peel L&P, UST, Wunderman Thompson
Best Brand & Values Initiative for Business Culture
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group – Group Culture Team
Highly Commended: Mount Anvil
Finalists: Elaworld + Elements, Engtal, GAMA Healthcare, Glide, Moore Barlow + Dragonfish
Building a Culture of Innovation Initiative
Winner: UST
Finalists: Bewley Homes, Bitwise Industries, NatWest Group, SSCL, Tata Consultancy Services
Best Working Environments & Practices Initiative
Winner: Personio
Highly Commended: Lubbock Fine
Finalists: Cambridge University Press and Assessment, Evora, gunnercooke llp, Peldon Rose, Spirit Health
Best Learning Initiative for Business Culture
Joint Winner: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Joint Winner: EDF + OPG + t-three
Finalists: CAE Technology Services, Charity Link, Jasco Products, monday.com, NatWest Group, Schroders + Higson Consulting
Best Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative
Winner: Takeda + Vynamic
Highly Commended: Schroders
Finalists: Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Blake Morgan, Cultural Infusion, UST, Westminster City Council, XPS Pensions Group
Best Wellbeing Initiative for Business Culture (Large Organisation)
Winner: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Commended: Lloyds Banking Group – Group Health & Wellbeing
Finalists: Blake Morgan, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Slalom, SSCL, UST
Best Wellbeing Initiative for Business Culture (Small to Medium Organisation)
Winner: GAMA Healthcare
Highly Commended: Netsurit
Finalists: Acacia Training, CAE Technology Services, Industrial Trading Solutions, Inzpire Limited, Peldon Rose
Best CSR / Corporate Sustainability Initiative
Winner: Swiss Re
Highly Commended: Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Finalists: Patron Capital, SSCL, TruRating, UST, Wunderman Thompson
Best Internal Communications Strategy for Business Culture
Winner: Phoenix Group + Cowry Consulting + Emperor
Finalists: Phillip Morris International, SSCL, UST
Best Employee Voice Initiative for Business Culture
Winner: Strativ
Highly Commended: SSCL
Finalists: Autocab, Lloyds Banking Group – Group Culture Team, Mount Anvil, Talent Point, The Good Marketer, UST
Business Culture Leadership Award
Winner: Provide Community Interest Company – Mark Heasman
Highly Commended: Mortgage Advice Bureau – Claire Smith
Finalists: Bewley Homes – Elaine Stratford, Evora Global – Board of Directors, Globalization Partners – Nicole Sahin, UST – Sunil Balakrishnan
Business Culture Ambassador Award
Winner: Spirit Health – Vanessa Reading
Finalist: Industrial Trading Solutions – Liza Lavender
Business Culture Team Award
Winner: Takeda + Vynamic
Highly Commended: Uniqa + Accenture
Finalists: Euro Accounting, Sage, SSCL, WeShape
Best Coaching, Mentoring &/or Personal Development Initiative for Business Culture
Winner: Charity Link
Highly Commended: CAE Technology Services Ltd
Finalists: Glide, Peel L&P
Best Talent Approaches for Business Culture
Winner: Footprint Digital
Highly Commended: Wharton Business Consulting
Finalists: monday.com, South East Water + ETS, Westminster City Council, Wunderman Thompson
Best Next Generation Initiative for Business Culture
Winner: Wunderman Thompson
Highly Commended: NatWest Group
Finalists: Footprint Digital, Peel L&P, The Good Marketer, Westminster City Council, Wharton Business Consulting
Best Integration & Merger Initiative for Business Culture
Winner: Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Finalists: Fairstone Group Ltd, Moore Barlow + Dragonfish
Best International Organisation for Business Culture
Winner: EDF + OPG + t-three
Highly Commended: Netsurit
Finalists: Bitwise Industries, Euro Accounting, Globalization Partners, UST, Workhuman, Xenergie
Best Large Organisation for Business Culture
Winner: UST
Highly Commended: Uniqa
Finalists: Hanson UK + Dragon Learning, Sage, Schroders, Slalom, Ultra Electronics
Best Medium Organisation for Business Culture
Winner: Mortgage Advice Bureau
Highly Commended: BMJ + Coode Associates
Finalists: Fairstone Group Ltd, gunnercooke llp, Personio, Workhuman, XPS Pensions Group
Best Small Organisation (50-250 people) for Business Culture
Winner: Peldon Rose
Highly Commended: Spirit Health
Finalists: Patron Capital, Strativ, Talent Point, WeShape
Best Small Organisation (under 50 people) for Business Culture
Winner: Level
Highly Commended: BeLiminal
Finalists: Euro Accounting, Industrial Trading Solutions, The Good Marketer
Best Public / Not-For-Profit Organisation for Business Culture
Winner: Provide Community Interest Company
Finalists: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, The Children’s Trust + Dragonfish, Westminster City Council
Business Culture Consultancy of the Year
Winner: Culture Consultancy
Highly Commended: t-three
Finalists: Coode Associates, ETS, Vynamic, Xenergie