Entries for the NZIM Young Executive of the Year Award this year will close on 31st August.
To be eligible, entrants must be no older than 35 years on this date. Those interested should contact Susan Peach at Profile Publishing, on 0800 800 939.
Judges will choose three regional finalists from the north, central and southern regions, and the winner will be announced at the Top 200 Awards event.
The annual Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards will be bigger and brighter this year. They will include new e-business award categories and the NZIM’s Young Executive of the Year Award.
The Awards will be presented at the dinner in Auckland on Thursday, November 30th.
The theme of the awards this year, New Horizons, reflects the forward looking approach the awards will take to identify the enterprises and the individuals who will succeed in the new e-business economy. The inclusion of the NZIM’s Young Executive of the Year Award is an additional reflection of the sponsors’ desire to emphasis the potential and promise of successful New Zealand enterprises and both experienced and emerging leaders.
The other categories at this year’s Awards will include:
? Deloitte/Management magazine Executive of the Year
? Deloitte/Management magazine Company of the Year
? Deloitte e.Merging Business of the Year
? mysap.com e.Business Strategy of the Year
? Brookfield’s Business Ethics Award
? Designworks Visionary Leader Award
? QBE Chairperson of the Year
AI uptake rises but leadership gap a barrier to AI at scale
Management Editorial Team
September 3, 2026
New research from Datacom has found AI is now firmly embedded in New Zealand workplaces; however, most have yet to translate that adoption into organisation-wide transformation, with 81% still in the exploratory or implementation stages of AI maturity.
