A local no-alcohol beer brewer and an organisation helping neurodivergent people find employment are among the inaugural ACT winners of the 2022 Telstra Best of Business Awards, celebrating and recognising small and medium sized businesses.
Thriving, independent Australian beer brewer, Heaps Normal has been awarded with the Embracing Innovation and Outstanding Growth Award. Co-founded by four mates – Jordy Smith, Andy Miller, Ben Holdstock and Peter Brennan – Heaps Normal brews great-tasting non-alcoholic beer as part of a global movement trading the standard drink for a new drink standard.
Canberra based Curijo won the Indigenous Excellence Award. Curijo is a leading Aboriginal owned and controlled management consultancy in Canberra, specialising in Aboriginal affairs. Its holistic and humanistic approach helps provide opportunities of employment and nurtures other Aboriginal peoples and businesses to establish and grow.
NatureArt Lab took home the Promoting Sustainability Award. NatureArt Lab’s unique art courses and nature tours actively contribute to environmental education through citizen science and community arts initiatives, exhibitions and publishing projects.
Employ for Ability was awarded the Building Communities Award, for its incredible work helping individuals with Autism and Neurodiversity navigate the job search process. Its dedicated team continues to help organisations understand the benefits of hiring neurodivergent people as part of social inclusion and diversity programs.
Colin Anstie’s creative communications and change management consultancy, RD Consulting Australia, won the Accelerating Women Award, for its impressive family friendly work environment which ensures its expert team of consultants feel safe and supported, and empowered to further excel in their careers.
Passionate NDIS provider, The Rehabilitation Specialists won the Championing Health Award. Its multidisciplinary team of allied health professionals deliver high quality, innovative, and client focused services that lead to great outcomes.
Telstra Consumer and Small Business Group Executive Michael Ackland said the ACT winners of the 2022 Telstra Best of Business Awards were outstanding examples of small and medium sized businesses whose ingenuity and resilience has led them to thrive amid such testing times.
“Each business is an inspiration in its own right, and it is a privilege to be able to celebrate the incredible impact these winners have had on the customers and communities they serve,” Mr Ackland said.
The new Telstra Best of Business Awards program continues Telstra’s long legacy of awards programs that has recognised exceptional leaders and small and medium sized businesses over the past 25 years, providing a platform to further their success and inspire others.
The full list of the 2022 Telstra Best of Business ACT Award winners are:
● Accelerating Women: RD Consulting Australia
● Building Communities: Employ for Ability
● Championing Health: The Rehabilitation Specialists
● Embracing Innovation: Heaps Normal
● Indigenous Excellence: Curijo
● Outstanding Growth: Heaps Normal
● Promoting Sustainability: NatureArt Lab
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