NEWS22 March 2013
US — The winners of the 2013 Ginny Valentine Awards have been announced.
Hosted by The Green Book and the Research Liberation Front, the awards were named after Ginny Valentine, a UK based semiotician and researcher who died in 2010, after a distinguished career in which she challenged traditional market research and evangelized for the adoption of new thinking to improve the discipline.
The 8 award winners for the 2013 Ginny Valentine Badge of Courage Award were:
- Kristin Luck, (pictured) Decipher, (US), for Fearlessly Advocating Gender Equality
- Stan Sthanunathan,Coca-Cola, (US), for Leading by Principle
- Batool Batalvi, SB&B Marketing Research, (Pakistan and Canada), for Raw Bravery for the Greater Good
- Kyle Nel, Lowe’s Home Improvement, (US), for Taking Action
- John Kearon, BrainJuicer, (UK), for Waking up the Industry
- Manish Makhijani, Unilever, (UK), or Grace under Fire
- Catalina Meija and Yanhaas, (Colombia), for Giving a Voice to the People
- Tom HC Anderson, Anderson Analytics, (US), for Networking and Rabble Rousing