Leadership Excellence Awards

Lab Manager’s Leadership Excellence Awards recognize individuals who demonstrate exceptional leadership, management, and safety skills within their scientific organizations. This prestigious international program celebrates those who have gone above and beyond to ensure the success of their staff and their organization’s mission.

Participants can nominate themselves or a peer and explain why the nominee is passionate about their role and why they excel as a lab manager and leader. Following the submission process, a panel of judges will review all entries and determine winners in the following categories:

• Overall Lab Manager Excellence Award
• Excellence in Lab Leadership
• Excellence in Safety Leadership 
• Excellence in Lab Management
• Young Lab Manager Excellence Award
• Excellence in Lab Sustainability

The winners of the Lab Manager Leadership Excellence Awards will be honored at the 2025 Lab Manager Leadership Summit on April 8 in Pittsburgh, PA.