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The Tony Hsieh Award

THE TONY HSIEH AWARD

The Tony Hsieh Award seeks out progressive, value-driven leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs who embody Hsieh’s spirit in business through transforming their organization’s quality of work and life, engagement and productivity to allow members or employees to maximize their fullest potential.

We’re looking for people who are reinventing the way we work.

Vote based on our award criteria: Innovation, Authenticity, Scaleable / Self Organizing, Replicability, Proof of Better Outcomes, and Delivering Wow.

Learn more about the award criteria →

"For the longest time people believed it was impossible to break the 4 minute mile. In 1954, Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile. But what I find super interesting is that, in less than a year other people broke the 4 minute mile. It wasn’t that nutrition was better that year. It was that people believed it was possible. We purposely choose collision, co-learning, and connectedness because we wanted something that could be replicated.” 
- Tony Hsieh

2023-24 AWARD WINNERS

We are proud to announce the first three winners of the Tony Award. Each winner will be honored and walk in Tony’s shoes at prestigious events through the year.

KRISOS

A private equity group based out of the Netherlands that buys 75% of corporate shares from targeted companies with a minimum of 80% of employees committing to transform management from a top-down structure to self-managed teams.

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e.l.f. Beauty

A beauty company that uses ‘High Performance Teamwork’ where every employee takes responsibility for giving feedback to each other, fueling each other’s growth and always having each other’s backs. All employees commit to interactions that are specific, happen early, happen often, and occur across all levels of the organization.

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Guild

Guild’s mission is to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education, skilling, and career mobility. Guild’s Career Opportunity Platform™ enables employers to invest in their employees, creating life-changing opportunities through learning programs, career development, and coaching with support, guidance, and resources at every step to ensure the new skills employees are building translate into career pathways — all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.

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Past Winners

Vote based on our award criteria: Innovation, Authenticity, Scaleable / Self Organizing, Replicability, Proof of Better Outcomes, and Delivering Wow.

Learn more about the award criteria →

AWARD CRITERIA

Join our applicant pool! Gain visibility, be celebrated, attract good people, inspire and empower others. Together we endeavor to transform the world of work and inspire others based on what we’re learning.

innovation

Are you pushing the status quo? Adapting to change in ways others haven’t?

Replicable / Scalable

Are you running the proverbial 4-minute mile in a ways that other can learn from, improve upon, and replicate?

Proof of Better Outcomes

Tony was a proponent of learning by doing. Have you implemented new solutions instead of theorizing about them? Is there evidence of proven outcomes?

Deliver WOW!

Are your innovative practices delivering Wow to your team, industry, and others?

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AWARD CRITERIA

Join our applicant pool! Gain visibility, be celebrated, attract good people, inspire and empower others. Together we endeavor to transform the world of work and inspire others based on what we’re learning.

innovation

Are you pushing the status quo? Adapting to change in ways others haven’t?

Replicable/Scalable

Are you running the proverbial 4-minute mile in a ways that other can learn from, improve upon, and replicate?

Proof of Better Outcomes

Tony was a proponent of learning by doing. Have you implemented new solutions instead of theorizing about them? Is there evidence of proven outcomes?

Deliver WOW!

Are your innovative practices delivering Wow to your team, industry, and others?

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