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The Facilitation Impact Awards (FIA) honours organisations that have used facilitation to achieve a measurable and positive impact as well as the facilitator(s) who worked with them. More about FIA. 

2021 Awards

Platinum award

Asian Leopard Specialist Society

Client: 
Dr. Arezoo Sanei, Executive Director
Facilitators: 
Goli Ahmadifard EF, Iranian Leading Facilitators and Maryam Attarieh, freelance facilitator
Location: 
Tehran, Iran

Active involvement of local communities to establish the Persian Leopard Monitoring Scheme in Iran

Impact

In a wide view, the project aimed at establishment of an innovative and sustainable platform for the long-term monitoring of the Persian leopard population and habitat suitability status in Iran. All ten targets set for the community-based aspect of the project were successfully achieved and all but one were exceeded.

Gold award

Bank of China

Client: 
Min Wu, President of Zhejiang Branch of Bank of China and Chuntang Zhao, President of Beijing International Finance College of Bank of China
Facilitators: 
Kevin Hao Junshuai and Kefa Lv, Beijing Accelerating Business Growth Management Consulting Co., LTD and Hongtao Ma, Weiwei Wang, Jingruo Li, Ziyun Qi, Tianji Zhang and Xinyuan Huo, Bank of China
Location: 
Beijing, China

Agile banking action learning program

Impact

Overall, the project set 11 specific and measurable goals. All these goals were achieved and 8 were exceeded.

Healthcare Leadership Academy, Saudi Commission for Health Specialities (SCHS)

Client: 
Dr. Sami Yousif, CEO
Facilitators: 
North Star Facilitators and Healthcare Leadership Academy ENABLE facilitators
Location: 
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Developing facilitators for healthcare transformation

Impact

A total of 22 healthcare leaders successfully completed the 18 month facilitator development program. Participants reported that collectively they facilitated about 70 projects in the healthcare ecosystem.

Silver award

Amgen Taiwan Limited

Client: 
Joyce Lee, General Manager and Diana Chang, Head of Human Resources
Facilitators: 
Laura Hsu CPF | Master and Ivan Huang CPF, Open Quest Facilitation Technology
Location: 
Taipei City, Taiwan

Building a visionary organization for medical accessibility

Impact

The project supported the development of Amgen Taiwan as a reliable and innovative healthcare partner and employer of choice in Taiwan.

Amgen Taiwan has demonstrated significant achievements, including:

Corporate University of Russian Railways

Client: 
Roman Baskin, Director
Facilitators: 
Konstantin Buyanin, Artem Korol, Elena Mikhaylova, Nadezhda Nikulina and Marina Radzhabova, Corporate University of Russian Railways
Location: 
Moscow, Russia

Improving social welfare for employees and retirees

Impact

Over 3,000 senior and regional managers and employees who supervise social and human resource activities for Russian Railways learned about best practices and facilitation; they used this learning to collaborate across functional areas to develop solutions.

Sandoz BioPharma GMAA Team

Client: 
Jeremy Gowler, Global Head Marketing Access & Analytics
Facilitators: 
Sally Stinson Colella, Colella & Associates, LLC; Michael Randel CPF, Randel Consulting Associates and Christiane Frischmuth, Global Frischmuth Consulting
Location: 
Basel, Switzerland

Creating a strong collaborative team culture

Impact

Company Engagement Survey (May 2020 and May 2021)

The impact of the work is clearly visible in the results from the company-administered survey conducted in May 2021.

Spark-A-Change Foundation

Client: 
Nirmala Venkatesan, Founder Trustee
Facilitators: 
Chetna Mehrotra and Roshan Karkera, Rangbhumi: A Happy Playground
Location: 
Mumbai, India

Helping children navigate the challenges they face

Impact

The children who participated in this project are from marginalised backgrounds where most of their family members work odd jobs to keep the life on track. Their struggle for survival doesn’t allow them to pursue their dreams and keeps them caged into sorting survival issues.