With the exception of the Public Service Citation Award and the APEX CEO Award, executives in the federal public service are invited to submit names of candidates who have excelled in any of the six award categories below. The eligibility criteria are defined below.
Nominations accepted for:
Nominations not required for :
Recognizes an Executive who is a leader in their field and who, through exemplary work over the course of their career, has made a significant contribution to the Public Service. A minimum of 20 years in the federal public service, with at least five years as an Executive, is required for this award.
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Recognizes an Executive who has made exceptional contributions to their community and/or the public service by engaging in and/or leading a community initiative, a network, and/or a community of practice in supporting the Government of Canada’s efforts around inclusive leadership.
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Note: The Community Contribution Award is bestowed in memory of Pierre de Blois, a leader who has demonstrated exemplary achievements both at APEX and in the community.
Recognizes an Executive who engaged in and strongly supported the implementation of one or more initiatives designed to foster a healthy workplace.
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Recognizes an Executive who has demonstrated outstanding performance and achievement through innovative and creative approaches, resulting in new or improved programs, products, services or initiatives.
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Recognizes an Executive who continuously strives for excellence, best management practices and improvements in the workplace. Recognizes outstanding leadership that presents a role model for the Public Service, resulting in improved programs, services or initiatives.
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Recognizes an Executive who establishes effective partnerships and collaboration with a variety of stakeholders both within and outside government, such as with other levels of government, other departments and agencies, bargaining agents, private sector, academics, industry, and Canadians.
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Recognizes a Canadian who has made an outstanding contribution to the Public Service and contributes to a better understanding of the contributions of the Public Service to Canadian society. For this special award, nominees cannot be public servants currently employed by the Government of Canada, nor currently sitting politicians. Candidates may include a Canadian who is a retired public servant or a former politician.
For this award, APEX will be the nominator and candidates will be proposed internally by the APEX organization in collaboration with the APEX Board of Directors.
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The APEX CEO Impact Award celebrates and honours an individual who works with the Association of Professional Executives to deliver an outstanding contribution to the achievement of APEX’s vision and mandate.
Our Vision is to support an executive community with elevated wellness, elite leaders and extraordinary impacts through partnerships. Our strategic pillars are:
Advocacy: Supporting Individual executives and acting as their voice
National Engagement: Relationship building that improves presence, visibility, and awareness coast to coast to coast
Service Excellence: Provide the highest quality programming to clients
Business Sustainability: Building resource capacity that endures
It will be conferred to an individual with distinction who leverages their leadership and influence to deliver significant impact to the executive community aligned to APEX’s strategic direction. The CIA aims to recognize executives for demonstrable, sustained impacts that may result from a single influential contribution or from an ongoing commitment to the APEX mandate.
The primary candidate pool for this award will be public service executives, however, this recognition could also be awarded to individual leaders within the private sector.
For this prestigious award nominations will originate from the APEX CEO.
