Vision Monday and 20/20 Europe's Most Influential Women in Optical Survey is actively seeking nominations for women in the following five categories:
Business Leaders - Mentors - Rising stars - Founders - Innovators
Here are the descriptions of each category:
Business Leaders:
Candidates are women who hold senior or high-level leadership roles in the company that guide their companies forward, inspire leadership among their teams and peers and achieve high performance. They are industry influencers who set the tone for their companies and the industry.
Mentors:
Candidates are women who are team builders, developers of talent, who via example or education and training successfully influence others to learn and to grow in their business or professional acumen, within their organisations or among others in the industry.
Rising Stars:
Candidates are women who are “up-and-comers” in their careers and within their companies or arenas within the industry, sharp talents who are on their way toward higher levels of responsibility and influence.
Founders:
Candidates are women who have started their own business in the optical industry and who are having particular success in their specialist field in building and developing their business initiative or creative project. (The category includes co-founders).
Innovators:
Candidates are women who have initiated new product developments or special programmes in the arenas of marketing, technology, retail or patient service/philanthropy and sustainability, who have spearheaded innovative business ideas or enterprises that are achieving marked success and reinventing old ideas.