Lab Manager is proud to announce the launch of its Leadership Excellence Awards, a program developed to recognize individuals who demonstrate exceptional leadership and management skills within their scientific organizations.

Lab Manager’s readership represents leaders working in a wide variety of laboratory types, industries, and sizes. Whether you lead and manage a small team with a limited budget or a robust team with many stakeholders, Lab Manager is eager to celebrate individuals who go above and beyond to ensure the success of their staff and their organization’s mission. 

To enter, you can self-nominate or nominate your manager/peer for an award category. We encourage participants to share their stories of why the nominee is deserving of an Excellence Award. Your entry should describe and demonstrate to our judges that the nominee is passionate about their role and why they excel as a lab manager and leader. 

Laboratory professionals are invited to nominate themselves or a colleague for this prestigious competition, for any of the following four award categories:

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

Due to popular response, we have decided to extend the deadline for submissions to Lab Manager's Leadership Excellence Awards to January 21, 2022.

Winners of the Lab Manager Leadership Excellence Awards will be presented at the 2022 Lab Manager Leadership Summit in May.

• To gain recognition of your (or your colleague’s) hard work and dedication to your role as a lab manager

• Showcase the success of your staff and organization, and how you (or your colleague) played a starring role in that success

• Highlight the challenges you (or your colleague) have overcome as a lab manager and share your solutions to help others facing similar challenges in their own labs

• Share your experiences and expertise to inspire and motivate others

Overall Lab Manager Excellence Award: The winner of this award exemplifies all the traits, knowledge, and skills needed to successfully run a laboratory

Excellence in Lab Leadership: This award focuses on the “people” side of laboratory leadership. The winner of this award demonstrates how to manage lab staff effectively, how to improve employee engagement and satisfaction, and how to develop rising leaders among their staff

Excellence in Lab Management: This award focuses on the lab’s mission. The winner of this award demonstrates a keen eye for doing many things right, such as building effective safety and quality programs, delivering excellent technical results, and exceeding organizational goals

Young Lab Manager Excellence Award: This award focuses on the rising stars of an organization. This award applies to lab leaders under 40-years-old who have broken barriers, exceeded expectations, and who show strong potential to make a lasting impact on their organization

Winners will be interviewed for feature articles published by Lab Manager. Winners will also receive a digital badge/logo to display on their website and social media, and they will be mailed a plaque. The winners will also be invited to attend the 2022 Lab Manager Leadership Summit at no cost.

Honorable Mention and any other awards will be given solely at the judges’ discretion. Honorable Mention will receive a digital badge/logo to display on their website and social media, and will be sent a certificate.