Facilitation Impact Awards
Prestigious international award
The Facilitation Impact Awards honours organisations that have achieved a positive, measurable impact using facilitation.
They are also an excellent way for people everywhere to learn from the facilitators who make that impact possible.
If you’ve seen an organisation make a positive and measurable impact using facilitation, we want to hear your story.
As the leading professional association for facilitators, we understand how stories like yours can illustrate the power of facilitation.
The nomination process
Eligibility
The awards are open to organisations that have benefited from using facilitation rather than firms or individuals who provide facilitation services.
Facilitators are included in the organisation's nomination.
A representative of the organisation or a facilitator involved in the project may submit a nomination.
To be eligible for an award:
- the organisation must be a recognised entity under the laws of its country
- at least one facilitated event must have been held within 36 months of the closing date for nominations
- the organisation must not have received a Facilitation Impact Award for any of the facilitated events included in the nomination
- any applicable nomination fee must have been paid.
An area within the organisation—for example, a division, branch or section—may only submit one nomination in a nomination period.
IAF Board of Directors, FIA team members and evaluators are not eligible for an award and must not be included in a nomination.
Criteria
IAF members evaluate nominations using the following criteria:
- The quantified results demonstrate the objectives were met (25 points).
- The qualitative results indicate the objectives were met (15 points).
- The project impacted a substantial part of the organisation (15 points).
- Facilitation was an integral part of the project (8 points).
- The practice of facilitation was aligned with the IAF Core Competencies (27 points).
- The nominated organisation recognises the power of facilitation (4 points).
- A facilitator who had a significant involvement in the project is an IAF member (3 points).
- A facilitator who had a significant involvement in the project holds an IAF credential (3 points).
Nominations that receive 70 points or more receive an award:
- 70 to 79 points Silver Award
- 80 to 89 points Gold Award
- 90 to 100 points Platinum Award.
The score given to a nomination is final. There are no appeals.
See the Facilitation Impact Awards Governance Policy for information on how we govern the awards.
Nominations are open
Nominations for the Facilitation Impact Awards are open.
We have extended the closing date for nominations to Saturday, 28 February 2026, at 23:00 UTC.
You can submit your nomination in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese.
Want to learn more about how to nominate and get some tips?
Watch a recording of the information sessions held on 11 May. Both sessions cover the same content: tips for nominating and how to prepare your nomination in our award platform (Award Force).
- Session 1 held at 06:00 UTC Note: 25 minutes into the recording, we mention that you can nominate projects that had at least one facilitated event held within 24 months of the closing date for nominations. This has been extended to 36 months.
Read Tips for nominating your impact story - the slides used in the information session.
2024 Awardees
Congratulations to our awardees:
- Autostrade per L’Italia S.p.A.
- Canadian Dental Association
- Codema, Dublin’s Energy Agency
- Kaztour Ltd
- Nyati Mineral Sands Limited
- Shenzhen Airlines Co. Ltd
- Spark Venture Studio
- Spotify
- T. Y. Lin International Engineering Consulting(China)Co.Ltd
- Terminal de Cargas del Ecuador S.A.
- Thirty Percy
- Wood Buffalo Environmental Association.
Visit 2024 Awardees Gallery to find out how they used facilitation to have a positive and measurable impact.
Past awardees
Take an inspirational tour of our past awardees
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Meet our past awardees on our social media: @iafacilitators #FacilitationHasImpact
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