Celebrating apprenticeship impact
Apprenticeships change careers, lives, and organisations.
The Impact That Matters Apprenticeship Awards celebrate apprentices and the managers and mentors who champion them. This is our opportunity to recognise those who have turned learning into meaningful workplace impact.
Launched during National Apprenticeship Week, these awards spotlight applied learning, innovation, impactful results—and the people who make them possible.
IMPACT THAT MATTERS APPRENTICESHIP AWARDS CATEGORIES
Impactful Apprentice
Celebrating Hult apprentices (current or alumni) who have:
- Delivered measurable impact within their organisation
- Applied learning directly to business challenges with notable results
- Demonstrated commendable leadership, initiative or influence
- Created lasting value beyond the apprenticeship
IMPACT THAT MATTERS APPRENTICESHIP AWARDS CATEGORIES
Talent Builder
Celebrating line managers, mentors or apprentice leads who have:
- Actively championed apprenticeship learning
- Created the space, support and opportunity for learning to be applied
- Gone beyond expectations to develop their apprentice
- Strengthened a culture of talent development within their organisation
Who can be nominated?
Per category, the entry and nomination criteria for these awards are as follows:
Impactful Apprentice Award
- Open to: Current Hult Apprentices and Alumni (all apprenticeship programmes)
- Nominated by: peers, managers, mentors, organisational leaders, or self-nominated
Talent Builder Award
- Open to: Apprentice Leads, Line Managers and Mentors supporting Ashridge apprenticeship programmes and apprentices
- Nominated by: Apprentices, organisational colleagues, senior leaders, or self-nominated
How the apprenticeship awards are judged
Nominations will be assessed against clear, published criteria, including:
- Evidence-based impact
- Practical application of learning
- Sustained contribution (over one-off activity)
- Authenticity and integrity
Shortlisted nominees will be reviewed by a panel, including:
- Apprenticeship subject-matter experts
- Hult / Ashridge representatives
- An independent guest judge
Entries are scored against impact, application, reach and sustainability.
What our apprenticeship award winners will receive
Winners will be celebrated at Ashridge and receive:
- A unique trophy to symbolise your accomplishments for years to come
- Dinner and an overnight stay for two at Ashridge
- Formal recognition from Hult Ashridge
- Featured storytelling across our apprenticeship and employer networks
Our judging panel
We're delighted to welcome guest judge Christopher Crouch from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) to our Impact That Matters Apprenticeship Awards judging panel. Chris is a Higher Education Engagement Manager passionate about helping organisations unlock the transformational potential of the apprenticeship levy and champion high-quality management training. Chris joins our Programme Director and Academic Director. They bring many years of experience and expertise within the sector and are thrilled to be judging the Impact That Matters Awards from Hult International Business School.
Dr. Hari Mann
Academic Director, Apprenticeships at Ashridge & Dean of Hult Ashridge Campus
Kate Danbury
Programme Director, Apprenticeships at Ashridge
GUEST JUDGE
Christopher Crouch
Higher Education Engagement Manager, Chartered Management Institute
2026 awards timeline: Key dates
- Nominations Open: 13 February (Celebration Friday of National Apprenticeship Week)
- Nominations Close: 31 March
- Shortlist Announced: Mid-April
- Winners Announced: End May
About Hult International Business School
Hult is recognized by business education’s three most prestigious international accrediting bodies: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the Association of MBAs (AMBA), and EQUIS (The European Quality Improvement System).
Our programs are consistently ranked as among the best in the world by the most renowned publications including the Financial Times, the Economist, Forbes, and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Hult is the proud winner of the Best Business School Careers Strategy award 2020 from the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and BGA. This follows our 2014 win of the AMBA Innovation award.
To find out more about Hult’s other programs, please visit www.hult.edu.
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