2009 Communication Leadership Award
Nominate an exemplary communicator at the executive level of your organization for the 2010 IABC/Houston Communication Leadership Award
- Nomination deadline: Monday, April 5, 2010
- Award presentation (winner MUST be present): Thursday, June 3, 2010 at The Parador
If you have support from the top, communication can make an even more incredible impact on your organization. For this reason, IABC/Houston each year recognizes a top-level business or organizational leader who displays understanding and active support of communication through the IABC Communication Leadership Award. This support includes such achievements as initiating, directing, supporting or sustaining outstanding and effective communication programs.
You’re invited to nominate an exemplary communicator at the executive level of your organization in consideration of this award. A nominee:
- must be an active senior management official (communication and public relations professionals are ineligible)
- must have demonstrated solid understanding and support of communication within his or her organization and have the highest professional and ethical standards in fulfilling his or her responsibilities
You may nominate more than one person, but each nomination must be on a separate form. Information provided in the nomination will be kept confidential. There is no entry fee for submitting a nomination. One award is to be presented each year as approved by the Nominations Committee, IABC/Houston.
Winner receives:
- Two free tickets to the awards dinner
- A professional award
- A photograph of the winner receiving the award
- Publicity via an IABC news release
Details and nomination form will be available February 2010.
Past winners
- 2009 – John C. Sheptor, President & CEO, Imperial Sugar Company
- 2008 – Dr. Giuseppe Colasurdo, dean of The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
- 2007 – John D. Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Company
- 2006 – J. William "Bill" Boyar, chairman of Boyar & Miller
- 2005 – Clark Baker, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Houston
- 2004 – John D. Stobo, M.D., president of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- 2003 – Jacqueline S. Martin, President, United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast
- 2002 – Steve Miller, CEO, Shell Oil Company
- 2001 – Kirbyjon Caldwell, senior pastor, Windsor Village United Methodist Church
- 2000 – Ken Lay, President, Enron
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