Autocar has opened nominations for the 2025 Drivers of Change awards, a brand new initiative held in affiliation with Ennis & Co and the Society of Motor Producers and Merchants (SMMT) to champion numerous expertise within the automotive trade.
A returning identify with a totally new format and strategy, Drivers of Change is a sibling occasion to Autocar’s Nice Girls initiative, which celebrates the automotive trade as a spot that welcomes everyone.
Autocar Drivers of Change winners will probably be people who’re driving change and selling variety of their enterprise in whichever position they carry out. Judges will probably be on the lookout for entries that may show the adoption of variety of background, expertise and thought of their enterprise.
Winners will probably be named in 9 classes however anybody showing on the shortlist will have the ability to name themselves an ‘Autocar Driver of Change’. They’ll all be celebrated at a particular occasion hosted on the SMMT’s London headquarters on 6 February 2025.
The highest candidates will probably be chosen from the next areas of the automobile trade: advertising and marketing; manufacturing; operations; PR and communications; buying; retail; gross sales; expertise; and automobile growth.
People can put themselves ahead for consideration, or might be nominated by mates, colleagues and employers. The awards are open to all working within the British automobile trade, and Britons working overseas.
Have you learnt somebody you might nominate? Suppose far and broad inside your organisation – we’re encouraging folks to assume outdoors of their speedy group for folks deserving of an award.
These nominating might want to provide proof of the nominee’s enterprise and/or trade impression. There is no such thing as a restrict to the variety of nominations that may be submitted by an organization.
Head right here to submit your nomination earlier than the deadline on 25 October.