The New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards

Welcome to the New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards

Welcome to the New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards: celebrating workplace leadership, innovation, best practice and collaboration.

Our annual awards programme brings all organisations who aspire to improve the work-place experience of "rainbow" people together to showcase best practice and celebrate outstanding progress as we continue to strive towards a more inclusive community of workplaces in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Watch the New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards 2021.

Congratulations to The 2021 New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards category winners:

• Westpac Supreme Award: Spaceworks Interior Architecture
• The SKYCITY Community and Advocacy Award: ASB Bank
• The Simpson Grierson Impact Award: The New Zealand Defence Force
• The Partners Life Emerging Award: Spaceworks Interior Architecture
• The Newmarket Business Association Executive Leadership Award: **Lizzi Whaley, CEO Spaceworks Interior Architecture
• The Chorus Ambassadorship Award: Shelly Thompson – New Zealand Intelligence Community
• The Grant Thornton Innovation Award: EY
• The Purple Sherbet Representation in Marketing Award: Les Mills International
• The Rainbow Tick Training and Development Award: Chorus NZ Ltd
• The Rainbow Tick Non-Commercial Sector Award: The New Zealand Defence Force
• The Westpac SME Rainbow Inclusivity Award: Spaceworks Interior Architecture

See the 2020 New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards Winners.

(View video highlights from 2019).

See the 2019 New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards Winners.

The New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Award will be held 25 November 2021 online.

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