Forget the Oscars — this is the *REAL* Award SZN.

Today, we learned that ICBA Wellness and ICBA President Chris Gardner are finalists for two prestigious Ragan Awards:

  • ICBA Wellness is a finalist for Outstanding Wellness Program (Small Organization, less than 100 employees).
  • Chris Gardner is a finalist for Wellness Executive of the Year.

As Ragan puts it, The finalists on this list represent the most effective corporate wellbeing programs worldwide. These organizations and people prioritize their employees’ mental, physical, social and professional well-being.”

Ragan is an influential American communications and HR firm. “Ragan Communications has been delivering trusted news, training and intelligence for more than 50 years to internal and external communicators, HR professionals and business executives via its conferences, webinars, training, awards, subscriptions and membership divisions.”

We’ll find out if we won on March 23. That’s right about the time we’ll also learn if we won a BC Business Magazine Business of Good Award for ICBA Wellness.

Over the past four years, ICBA has won 12 prestigious, US-based Reed Awards for our advocacy on behalf of open shop construction — including North American Trade Association of the Year in both 2019 and 2021 — the only two-time winner of that award.

Fingers crossed for these Wellness Awards, everyone!