
Outstanding Innovation of the Year
Previous Winners
Discover more about previous outstanding innovation award winners and shortlists
2020 Winners 2019 Winners 2018 Winners Current WinnersCelebrating our Partners' innovation across the nation
The CMI Outstanding Innovation & Delivery of the Year award is presented to one of our partners for demonstrating remarkable innovation in the design and delivery of their Management & Leadership programmes, and its impact on learner outcomes.
The Outstanding Innovation and Delivery Award recognises one of our Partners for thinking outside the box with their management and leadership programme, Take a look at our previous winners below.


Travis Perkins - Winner 2020
Is it corny to say we’re chuffed? Because we’re chuffed! It makes all the team's hard work worthwhile. We are a traditional organisation that tends to employ people who aren’t always academic – what we look for in new colleagues is great customer service skills not formal qualifications. CMI talks about ‘accidental managers’ and we are an absolutely typical ‘accidental manager’ business. The vast majority of our managers are there because they’re great at what they do, not because they have academic qualifications. So we really valued the opportunity to develop their management skills through an approach like apprenticeships.
Andy Rayner, Head of Apprentices, Travis PerkinsUniversity of Hudderfield
2019 - Outstanding Innovation of the Year WinnerPatricia Rogers - Coventry University
2018 - Outstanding Innovation of the Year Winner