Anna is an established customer experience and marketing professional with a proven track record of delivering excellent commercial performance over the 20 years of my career. I started my career in marketing, planning and driving growth for large corporate organisations across industries such as the motor trade, pharmacy and IT. Over the years my passion for marketing sparked an interest in customer behaviour and 6 years ago I moved into the Customer Experience profession. I now head up the Customer Experience function at Bupa Insurance, aiming to be the world’s most customer centric healthcare organisation. All helping to achieve our purpose of helping people live longer, healthier and happier lives and making a better world.
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2023 FINALISTS
We're delighted to announce that our 2023 Engage Awards finalists have been announced.
It's been so fantastic to see a record-breaking number of entries into the 2023 Engage Awards, demonstrating the level of innovation and dedication to customer and employee engagement within the industry.
The Engage Awards celebrate every example of excellence, whether organisations have implemented small changes that have created a big difference, or have made a complete overhaul to the way they operate.


the 2023 engage awards
The Engage Awards are designed to recognise innovation and excellence across the entire spectrum of customer and employee engagement.
2023 will mark the eighth year of the Engage Awards and we're delighted to announce that, due to growth, we are moving our ceremony to a new home in the shape of The Brewery, London, which is the perfect space for another year of fantastic celebration. The 2023 Engage Awards Ceremony will take place on 28th November.
Good luck to all of our finalists!
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Best Use of Innovation in Customer Engagement - SME
This Award will go to the SME organisation (250 employees or under) that can demonstrate how it has introduced innovation to make advances in the field of customer engagement. This innovation can take the form of new technology new working practices or anything else that has made a positive difference to the organisation and the way it operates.
Best Use of Innovation in Customer Engagement - Large Enterprise
This Award will go to the large organisation (more than 250 employees) that can demonstrate how it has introduced innovation to make advances in the field of customer engagement. This innovation can take the form of new technology new working practices or anything else that has made a positive difference to the organisation and the way it operates.
Best Use of Technology in Customer Engagement - SME
This Award will go to the SME organisation (250 employees or under) that can best demonstrate how its use of technology has been instrumental in making advances in the field of customer engagement. The implementation of this technology must be measurable, sustainable and have contributed to the performance and/or profitability of the organisation.
Best Use of Technology in Customer Engagement - Large Enterprise
This Award will go to the Enterprise organisation (more than 250 employees) that can best demonstrate how its use of technology has been instrumental in making advances in the field of customer engagement. The implementation of this technology must be measurable, sustainable and have contributed to the performance and/or profitability of the organisation.
Best Use of Voice of the Customer
This Award will go to the organisation that introduces an effective, sustainable and successful VOC programme that improves its understanding and insight of customer behaviour and needs and has used that programme to improve its customer experience offering. The implementation of the VOC programme must be measurable and have made a positive contribution to the overall customer experience offering.
Best Customer Contact Transformation
This Award will go to the organisation that has successfully transformed their customer contact and enhanced the customer experience at each touchpoint throughout the customer journey. The success of the strategy must be measurable and have made a positive contribution to the overall customer experience offering.
Best Use of Voice of the Employee
This Award will go to the organisation that introduced an effective, sustainable and successful VOE programme that improves its understanding and insight of its people and their working lives and has used that programme to improve its employee engagement offering. The implementation of the VOE programme must be measurable and have made a positive contribution to the overall engagement levels of its employees.
Best Employee Wellbeing Strategy
This Award will go to the organisation that has implemented a strategy to support and improve the wellbeing of its employees’ mental, financial and physical health. The implementation of the employee wellbeing strategy must be measurable and have made a positive contribution to the overall employee experience offering.
Best Business Transformation Strategy
This Award will go to the organisation that has turned their customer/employee engagement strategies around and has seen a significant and measurable change in engagement levels. The organisation will have implemented new and innovative strategies and these will have had a positive contribution to the performance and/or profitability of the organisation.
Best Customer and Employee Engagement Programme
This Award will go to the organisation that has introduced an effective, sustainable and successful customer and employee engagement programme that improves its understanding and insight of customer and employee behaviour and needs, and uses that strategy to improve both its customer and employee experience offering. The implementation of the programme must be measurable and have made a positive contribution to the overall customer and employee experience offering.
Best Customer Service Team
For customer service teams who create excellent customer experiences via each channel that they operate within. Entries should include evidence of how the team work together to deliver the CX, evidence of a true customer centric culture and evidence of customer satisfaction results.
Best Employee Engagement Team
For those working in an employee engagement dream team who are working hard to create excellent employee experiences. Entries should include evidence of how the team work together to deliver employee engagement initiatives, evidence of a true employee-centric culture and evidence of employee satisfaction results.
Best Use of Innovation in Employee Engagement - SME
This Award will go to the SME organisation (250 employees or under) that can demonstrate how it has introduced innovation to make advances in the field of employee engagement. This innovation can take the form of new technology new working practices or anything else that has made a positive difference to the organisation and the way it operates.
Best Use of Innovation in Employee Engagement - Large Enterprise
This Award will go to the large organisation (over 250 employees) that can demonstrate how it has introduced innovation to make advances in the field of employee engagement. This innovation can take the form of new technology new working practices or anything else that has made a positive difference to the organisation and the way it operates.
Best use of Technology in Employee Engagement - SME
This Award will go to the SME organisation (250 employees or under) that can best demonstrate how its use of technology has been instrumental in making advances in the field of employee engagement. The implementation of this technology must be measurable, sustainable and have contributed to the performance and/or profitability of the organisation.
Best use of Technology in Employee Engagement - Large Enterprise
This Award will go to the large organisation (over 250 employees) that can best demonstrate how its use of technology has been instrumental in making advances in the field of employee engagement. The implementation of this technology must be measurable, sustainable and have contributed to the performance and/or profitability of the organisation.
Best Use of Customer Insight
This Award will go to the organisation that best demonstrates an insight into the needs and behaviours of its customers. This demonstration of understanding will have attracted, retained and influenced customers to gain increased customer loyalty and satisfaction. Results will be measurable and will have had a positive contribution to the performance and/or profitability of the organisation
Best Customer Centric Strategy
This Award will go to the organisation that has successfully implemented a strategy that puts the customer at the heart of everything they do. The success of the strategy must be measurable and have made a positive contribution to the overall customer experience offering.
Best Internal Communications Strategy
This Award will go to the organisation that introduces an effective, sustainable and successful Internal Communications strategy that improves its understanding and insight of employee behaviour and needs, and has used that strategy to improve its employee experience offering. The implementation of the Internal Communications strategy must be measurable and have made a positive contribution to the overall employee experience offering.
Best Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
This Award will go to the organisation that has successfully implemented a strategy that improves diversity, inclusion and belonging within their organisation. The success of this strategy must be measurable and have made a positive contribution to the overall employee experience.
Best Use of Training
This Award will go to the organisation that demonstrates how it has used training to help make advances in the field of customer and/or employee engagement. The training strategy or programme implementation must be measurable, sustainable and have made a positive contribution to the performance and/or productivity of the organisation.
Great Place to Work
This Award will go to the organisation that has put an effective strategy in place that has helped to create a working environment with improved employee engagement and experience. The implementation of this strategy must show measurable results.
OUR AWARDS JUDGES

Gerry Brown
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Ian Naylor
Booking.com Head of Customer Strategy & PlanningA results oriented adaptable leader, with a track record of innovative and customer centric business transformation in large scale, multi-site, multi-channel, complex contact centres, and across retail operations.
Expertise in digital customer journey re-engineering & the creation of customer insight capability to eliminate failure, increase customer loyalty & significantly reduce cost.
Defined strategy & led operational delivery through periods of high growth, business start-up, multiple new initiative launch & rapid business change. Step changed end to end customer experience and significantly improved profitability by creating new operating models and deploying innovative technologies & people strategies.
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Helen Wilson
Ipsos Global Chief Experience Officer for Customer Experience and Channel PerformanceHelen is Global Chief Experience Officer for Customer Experience and Channel Performance at Ipsos. She has significant leadership, CX and research experience, and is a frequent speaker, chair and judge at industry events, including being the Chair of Judges for the European Contact Centre and Customer Service Awards (ECCCSA). Helen hosts Customer Perspective: Customer Perspective: An Ipsos podcast | Ipsos, a podcast aimed at listeners who are concerned with ensuring Customer Experience delivers on the Brand Promise.
Helen is passionate about unlocking potential; she is a trained business coach, with a focus on supporting future leaders. She is a member of Ipsos’ global Gender Balance Network leadership team, charged with inspiring women to reach their full potential.
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Mark Hillary
Carnaby Content Host & Presenter- CX Files PodcastMark Hillary is a British writer and blogger based in São Paulo, Brazil. His industry analysis and research focuses on forward-looking CX, technology, work, and globalisation. This year he has published two books, one focused on how C-level executives are using blogs and social media to interact with customers and one a complete re-write of all Shakespeare’s sonnets reduced to Twitter format. In the past decade he published another dozen books exploring business strategies. He is presently working on a new book focused on how content marketing with LinkedIn can dramatically improve customer relationships and lead to increased sales. An IT director in the City before writing professionally Mark has a pragmatic view on how technology is shaping executive decision-marking today and he is often asked to ghostwrite for several leading international CEOs, diplomats, and politicians. Mark has worked with the UN and several governments on outsourcing strategies in locations such as India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria and he is well-known as a live blogger of major events, including the 2010 UK general election for Reuters and 2012 London Olympic Games as an official storyteller. Today his media work can usually be found in the Huffington Post, LinkedIn, and on the Engage Customer blog.

Martin Hill-Wilson
Brainfood Consulting Founder
Pete Evia Rhodes
PetLab Co. Director of Lifecycle MarketingPete is a true customer champion, using insight with innovation to help successfully develop customer centric propositions. These have included BT Mobile, A.I led content recommendations at The Times, alongside award winning contact centres. He's currently Head of Customer Engagement at Simplyhealth, leading their omni-channel CRM Strategy & MarTech evolution. Additionally Pete's key noted at Engage, INMA, and CCW. He's been published in the Chartered Institute of Marketing, as well as The Harvard Business Review. Recognised by Customer Experience Magazine as one of the top 50 most influential professionals in customer experience.
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Marcus Hickman
Davies Hickman Managing DirectorWorks to build business success for our clients using innovative market research, data analysis and training.
Strong track record in business focused consultancy projects:
- Customer insights and market analysis
- Value proposition and new product development
- Thought leadership for B2B content marketing
- Customer experience management and innovation
- CX training for sales and service
- Emerging technology and digital transformation.
Uses the latest digital research and analytical tools for building, synthesizing and visualising customer and market insight. Highly skilled in making sense of complex markets. Leader in CX thinking and management. UC and workplace collaboration expertise.
Cross-sector knowledge with particular interest in technology and telecoms, financial services, housing and payments sectors.
Focused on keeping up to date with technology and global consumer trends wherever they emerge. See @davieshickman.
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Mike Owen
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Nick King
AutoTrader Insights DirectorNick joined Auto Trader in January 2007 running Business Intelligence and in 2010 built the retailer insight team running master classes and webinars. He also makes short films to evangelise about data and Insight and speaks regularly at conferences in Europe, Canada and North America.
Nick is also a visiting lecturer in consumer psychology at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
After graduating from Loughborough in 1986 , Nick spent years in advertising and planning at Dorlands and Lintas, was a guitarist with Great Northern Electrics, a publisher on HiFi magazines at Petersen/EMAP and a research Director at Media agency Carat/Difiniti responsible for a team of researchers advising a range of Blue-chip clients on the development of their marketing and communications strategies in the Digital arena.
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Anna Wilcox
Bupa Head of Customer Experience
Jo Moffatt
Engage for Success Strategy DirectorJo has been a volunteer with the Engage for Success movement since its launch. As Strategy Director she sits on the Core Team and co-hosts the weekly Engage for Success radio show. EFS radio draws guests from across the engagement world with interesting stories to share. The Engage for Success agenda is absolutely aligned with Jo’s vision ‘to make workplaces better places to be’. Jo’s ‘day job’ is MD and founder of Woodreed, a specialist ad agency who use the tools, techniques, creativity and insight of the advertising world to engage employees inside organisations. Jo is passionate about brands and their power to move people. She is equally passionate about employee engagement and its vital role in delivering a high performing organisation. Put the two together and she becomes almost evangelical about the power a well-positioned and consistently delivered brand has as a catalyst for employee engagement and business success.

Cathy Brown
Handley Studios Ltd. Co-FounderCathy (she/her) works with people and organisations to create inclusive, healthy and more productive workplaces that work for everyone.
A renowned leader, speaker and communicator, Cathy blends curiosity and empathy with deep cross-sector experience. She prides herself on helping people move out of stressful situations to create human-focused workplace cultures where compassion and connectedness – and people – are encouraged and valued.
Cathy has led organisations across a range of industries including Engage for Success (the UK’s movement for Employee Engagement), and has helped to transform many more through her work as Capability Brown, and most recently at Management Geek.
Cathy carries her personal experience of neurodivergence into the solutions she co-creates with her clients, through conversations, commitment and curiosity - helping them to manage themselves and their teams in ways that work for everyone.
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Mike Gibney
NHS Director of Workforce at The Walton Centre NHS Foundation TrusthrMike is the Director of Workforce and Innovation at the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust where he has worked since 2013. He is the Trust lead for HR, OD, Communications, Fundraising, Research and Innovation. The Trust is currently accredited in Investors in People as gold and holds the Investors in People Health and Wellbeing award. The organisation was rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in 2020.
Mike’s work on innovation enables him to work very closely with consultants on spread and adoption of new technology and new ways of working. He is a Board member at the North West Innovation Agency that seeks to drive innovation across the NHS. He is engaged with the local business community through various professional bodies and is passionate about joint working with the private sector.
Mike joined the NHS in 2009 following a successful career in local government and the third sector. He has a collaborative approach to leadership based upon clear values that have enabled him to achieve transformational change.

Chris Burton
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Frazer Rendell
E-Trinity Consultancy DirectorAfter 25 years in operational roles in hospitality, retail and healthcare at a national and international level, Frazer set up e-trinity consultancy who specialise in creating high performing teams by turning the theory of engagement into practical and measurable tools, to increase engagement and improve organistational efficiency and effectiveness.
Frazer is also a regional ambassador for Engage for Success in the South East and chairs the research group for Engage for Success, which is looking at the impact of Performance Management on Engagement, in collaboration with Cranfield. He is a regular speaker on engagement at events such as the CIPD Employee Engagement Conference and is guest lecturer at Coventry and Oxford Brookes University, as well as writing articles for People Management, The Telegraph and Thomson Reuters.
Frazer likes to also keep up to date with current trends in hospitality, retail and healthcare by working with other organisations to improve their clients service delivery and is a governor of an NHS mental health trust.
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Jo Dodds
Engage for Success Co-Strategy DirectorAs co-Strategy Director of Engage for Success, Jo is focused on spreading the word about employee engagement and shining a light on good practise, inspiring people and workplaces to thrive. She also co-hosts the long running weekly Engage for Success radio podcast talking all things employee engagement with a wide range of guests from all over the world. Her corporate background is in regional and national HR and training roles within large retail and leisure organisations. She started her own business in 2005 and has since worked with people and organisations to take advantage of the digital and social media opportunities to create engagement with customers, employees and other stakeholders.

Charlotte Dahl
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Victoria Silverman
Financial Markets Standards Board Head of Communications
Nicholas Brice
Soul Corporations CEO
Sarah Metcalfe
Happy Coffee Consulting Founder & Chief Happiness Officer
Karine Cardona-Smits
Forrester Senior AnalystKarine Cardona-Smits coaches and mentors experience design leaders and their teams to drive impact. With over 20 years of professional experience in digital and a background in psychology, she provides guidance to leaders in Customer Experience, Digital, Design, and Product to tackle their biggest challenges and stay ahead in a constantly changing landscape. As a former Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, she conducted extensive research and authored actionable reports on customer experience, service design, UX, and experience design. She is also a sought-after keynote speaker at customer experience and design events, sharing her expertise with a wider audience.
LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinecardona/
Website https://www.karinecardona.com
HOW THE JUDGES SCORE ENTRIES
Objectives
This judging criteria looks at whether the organisation provides clear evidence and well thought out understanding of the strategy and requirements.
Innovation
The judges will look at whether the entry demonstrates innovation, uniqueness and a forward thinking approach
Execution
Within this criteria, our expert judges will look at how the strategy executed and what made it work so well.
Success
ENTRY RULES AND REQUIREMENTS
- If you are submitting an entry on behalf of your company or individuals you are responsible for seeking permission from the required person.
- Submissions that include live projects must have taken place in the last 12 months. If your project has not yet finished, you are still eligible to enter.
- Each entry is judged on its own merits and not by comparison to other entries.
“The team had a fantastic night celebrating the win. Our award is now proudly displayed in our awards cabinet.”Director of Marketing, DPD Group

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At NKD, our purpose is to make the world of work better.
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