This award recognises companies where sustainability is embedded in the overall strategy and decision-making processes. The award recognises finance teams that play a critical role in delivering this.

Entrants must demonstrate:

• Sustainability is embedded into their organisation's overall strategy and decision-making processes and is widely considered to be core to activities.
• They generate tangible environmental and/or social benefits IN ADDITION TO delivering positive financial outcomes.
• In relation to Public Sector and not for profit deliver value for money within prudently managed budgets, through spending less, spending well and spending wisely.
• The involvement of the finance team is critical in achieving all of the above.

This award recognises organisations that are practicing authentic integrated thinking and are communicating this to their providers of financial capital.

Entrants must demonstrate:

• They are able to articulate clearly what integrated thinking means to them and to their providers of financial capital.
• They are practicing authentic integrated thinking within their organisation and are communicating this effectively across a range of communications.
• The finance team is critical in embedding and communicating the organisation's integrated thinking.

This award recognises organisations that have investment activities, products and services that demonstrate ambition to build a more sustainable financial system.

Entrants must demonstrate:

• Sustainability is embedded in their investment activities, financial products or services.
• Their approach is enabling the generation of environmental and/or social benefits IN ADDITION TO delivering positive financial outcomes.
• They have successfully scaled up their activity, product or service or are actively working to do so.

This award recognises the contribution of individuals, organisations or joint-entrants in driving action to integrate sustainability through education, training and academia. Entries can be self-nominated or nominated by a third party and must be relevant to the wider accounting or finance community.

Entrants must demonstrate:

• Their accounting/financial research, thought leadership or training contributes to the development of sustainable business models.
• Their activities can generate, or are expected to generate, tangible environmental and/or social benefits.
• They have proactively engaged students, peers or finance professionals to drive change.

We are looking for examples of best practice, across four different categories, that could be transformational in building a sustainable organisation.

In previous years this has been limited to climate action. This year, recognising that the challenge we face is also about loss of biodiversity & nature and growing inequalities, we have decided to expand the Leadership Awards to three categories: climate; biodiversity & nature; and social impact.

There is no separate entry form for this award: the leaders will be selected from this year's finalists from across all the categories.

This is optional: there is no requirement to discuss these topics in your entry if not appropriate. Entries to the Leadership awards will be considered as part of the assessment and judging process for the other award categories entered.