The Best and Brightest Executive Leadership Summit, hosted by the National Association for Business Resources Tuesday at the Detroit Athletic Club, gave business leaders from around the country a chance to talk about the challenges they face and the best practices they’ve developed to help face them.
But it was also an opportunity to recognize a variety of winners from the various Best & Brightest programs, including Best and Brightest in Wellness, Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in the Nation, Best and Brightest CEOs, and Best and Brightest Leadership Teams.
With retired WDIV anchor Devin Scillian emceeing, special honors that were shared included Brilliance Awards, Iconic Awards, Top 101 in the Nation and The Best and Brightest Elite winners.
Among those elite winners were:
- Baudeville
- Bronson Healthcare Group
- Kerry
- LRS Recycles
- Now Health Group
Laura Schwenke, head of Human Resources-Commercial for Kerry, a Milwaukee-based nutrition company focused on delivering sustainable nutrition solutions with some 20,000 employees globally, said the Best and Brightest elite award “means a great deal.”
“We’ve been on a transformational journey from a culture perspective,” Schwenke said. “This validates the efforts of all these people who are doing the hard work.”
Brilliance and Iconic award winners included:
- 3c Software – Brilliance Winner
- Cross Blue Shield of Michigan- Brilliance and Iconic winner
- Consumers Credit Union- Brilliance and Iconic winner
- Detroit Athletic Club- Brilliance winner
- Greenleaf Trust – Brilliance and Iconic winner
- HED- Brilliance winner
- Quest CE – Brilliance Winner
- Rehmann- Brilliance winner
- Barton Malow – Iconic winner
- CBIZ – Iconic winner
- Dean’s Professional Services – Brilliance and Iconic winner
- Digitas – Iconic winner
- Epitec – Brilliance winner
- EV Construction – Iconic winner
- Lake Michigan Credit Union – Iconic Winner
- Marsh McLennan Agency, Midwest Region – Brilliance and Iconic winner
- OpTech LLC – Iconic winner
- OxBlue – Iconic winner
- Turner Construction Company- Iconic winner
Other companies honored at the summit included:
- AE Betancourt
- Blachford, Inc
- HRPRO/BenePro
- Ducks Unlimited
- EDSI
- GNS North America
- 2313 Inc
- Helping Hand
- Michigan Staffing
- re:Members
- C5MI Insight LLC
- Community Financial Credit Union
- Enterprise Mobility – Wisconsin Group
- Members First Mortgage
- Team UIS
- Crossvale
- InfoReady Corporation
- GTS
- Life Remodeled
- Micro- LAM Inc
- Pheasants Forever, Quail Forever
- Trion Staffing Solutions
- Liv Communities
- Cielo
- Metal Flow Corporation
- Sentinel Technologies
- Hollingsworth
- Omni Community Credit Union
- Zeigler Auto Group
- UHY LLP
- WOW!
Carrie Adams, Group HR Manager for transportation leader Enterprise Mobility, said being a Best and Brightest winner “means a lot to the company.”
“Being a Best and Brightest winner means we continue to provide the things that keep our employees engaged,” she said. “It means a lot to us to be a Best and Brightest winner.”
