Asia Business Leaders Award

CNBC pioneered the Asia Business Leaders Awards to salute remarkable business leaders for their continuing commitment to excellence, developing best practices and innovative strategies. Recipients of the Awards are stellar individuals who are visionaries behind today’s outstanding businesses. Winners of the Awards exemplify the best in leadership.

Asia Business Leader of the Year
The Asia Business Leader of the Year Award recognizes the business leader who makes his or her vision a reality for the company – driving growth, success and profitability. Qualities including innovation, community service, management skills and the leader’s ability to formulate strategies and capitalize on key trends are key judging criteria.

Asia Innovator of the Year Award
The Asia Innovator of the Year Award rewards inventive thinking in business. The award recognizes the business leader who has created new business processes, pioneered creative solutions and technologies or led an organization that has innovation at its very core and in the process, achieved outstanding success.

Asia Talent Management Award
The Asia Talent Management Award goes to the business leader who recognizes the importance of talent in both word and deed. The winner of this award values its workforce and is committed to supporting, developing and retaining talent, as well as nurturing the next generation of leaders.

Corporate Social Responsibility Award
The Corporate Social Responsibility Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the arts, education, the environment and community development. The winner of this award will be judged on the ability to translate a company’s success into benefits for the community and makes societal impact a corporate priority.

Asia Viewers' Choice Award
The winner of the Asia Viewers’ Choice Award is chosen by CNBC viewers throughout the region. Viewers are invited to vote for their CEO of choice by email or through the official Asia Business Leaders Awards website. The voting campaign is closed, the award winner will be annouce on the day of Live Award and Gala Dinner.

Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award honors the leader who has, during the course of his/her career, made significant contributions in shaping, growing and developing the economic landscape.

The Awards logo draws inspiration from the way sound business decisions originate from good ideas.

From the broad top to the strong tip, it shows how general fundamentals are distilled into one decisive point. It draws inspiration from the calligrapher whose brush strokes are honed to perfection, bold yet mindful and executed with momentum and precision.

Like the swift stroke of a master calligrapher, success in business is often the result of extraordinary talent, remarkable mastery and spectacular precision.

The business leader's experience, acumen and insights help set directions. These are then developed and refined into strong, well-planned strategies, which are officially signed with a swift stroke of the pen.