Announcing the International Quality Awards 2025 finalists

The CQI’s annual International Quality Awards celebrate quality excellence across nine categories, recognising and rewarding the contribution of quality professionals, teams and organisations worldwide. A panel of subject-matter experts evaluates and judges the entries to ensure the highest level of rigour.  

We’re excited to have more finalists than ever, with stand-out submissions representing all categories and over double the previous years’ entries for the Emerging Talent category. Across the seven public categories, we have first-time finalists from Brazil, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Taiwan.

Congratulations to our 2025 finalists. Each will be a gold mine of inspiration, good ideas and novel applications. I look forward to seeing their quality shine. 

Vince Desmond, CEO, CQI 

We’re thrilled to have four finalists in our new category, Developing Quality Talent, which recognises a strategy, project or initiative demonstrating excellence in growing exceptional talent.   

We’re equally encouraged to have four finalists in our revised ESG Impact category (formerly Sustainability Impact). This response strongly indicates that refreshing the award criteria ensures greater accessibility for entrants to showcase quality-driven improvements in processes, products and services that benefit people and the planet.

International Quality Awards 2025 finalists

The award winners will be announced as part of Quality Live on Thursday 19 June in London. The winners of the CQI Volunteering Impact Award (formerly CQI Volunteer of the Year) and Outstanding Contribution to Quality Management Practice will also be announced. 

Congratulations to all our finalists and thank you to everyone who submitted their applications. 

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