The Business Executive (TBE) Communications Group is organizing the inaugural edition of its unique new awards scheme in Ghana known as the Ghana 100 Trailblazers Awards. This awards scheme will identify and publicly recognize 100 people in Ghana for their leading the way with regards to new vistas of socio-economic, political and/or cultural efforts and impact on the nation’s polity, and thus serving as trailblazers by showing the country new, positively impactful ways of doing things for collective benefit.

All Ghanaians whose activities impact on their country’s fortunes, as well as foreigners domiciled in Ghana are eligible for consideration for the awards, as long as they meet our awards selection criteria, which are stated in this document.

For the purposes of this awards scheme, no specific sector, gender or any other type of categories have been delineated, although our awards jury will make a deliberate effort to arrive at a list of 100 award winners that is inclusive with regards to gender, age and ethnicity, and which will represent some countries other than Ghana itself.

Beyond this, Awards will be conferred primarily on nominee’s assessed exemplary conduct, achievements and/or impacts with regards to the awards selection criteria. To this end awardees will be selected using a multi-stage selection process involving the findings of our dedicated research consultants and ultimately our specially constituted Awards Selection Jury comprising 12 identified experts on the role of innovation and cutting edge conduct and participation in socioeconomic, political and cultural affairs and consequent impacts firstly in Ghana particularly and secondly on the rest of the world. We are using expert selection rather than public voting to eliminate the effects of public sentiments rather than objective assessments based on the stated selection criteria, which a significant proportion of the voting public may not be able to fully comprehend and assess anyway.

Therefore, all participants in the selection process will be guided by clearly established assessment criteria as set out below. Each criterion will be weighted to create a quantitative scoring model albeit with scores necessarily derived from qualitative assessments of each nominee, first by our research consultants and ultimately by our Awards Selection Jury. The selection process is designed in such a manner as to remove any influence in the decisions by the organizers themselves whose roles are restricted to providing logistical support at each stage of the selection process through a dedicated awards secretariat.

Award winners will be conferred with their awards at a five star gala event to be held at a venue in Accra and date in 2025 to be announced shortly.