2026
Award Nominations
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Help us honor the meaningful contributions of practicing health and well-being coaches and industry leaders at our 2026 awards ceremony held in San Diego, California and live streamed worldwide on Friday, September 25th, 2026. Submit your nomination for a top tier professional who deserves to be honored for their positive impact on the profession and in the lives of people in communities around the world. Nominations will be accepted until 11:59pm PT on Friday, May 1st, 2026.
Coach of the Year Award
This award honors a national board certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC) whose outstanding contributions as a practicing professional empower patients/clients to enact and sustain meaningful lifestyle changes. This award recipient has demonstrated superior coaching and leadership skills as well as active involvement in their community, with a demonstrated commitment to improving individual health and well-being.
Submit Coach of the Year Nomination
Servant Heart Award
This award is bestowed upon a certified health and/or wellness coach who is making a meaningful impact in their local community and/or nationally to increase access to health and well-being coaching services and/or health programs for underrepresented and/or underserved populations. This award recipient is also an individual with a demonstrated and unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of health and well-being coaching, stemming from lived experience and/or formal professional DEI training and education.
Submit Servant Heart Award Nomination
Raising the Bar Award
This award is given in recognition of a professional who is providing transformative leadership to further advance the field of health and well-being coaching through creating or evolving education and training, conducting original research that adds quality evidence as to the effectiveness and value of health and well-being coaching, designing and implementing clinical and/or community health and well-being coaching services and/or developing programs to improve quality of care and access for patients/clients.
Submit Raising the Bar Award Nomination
Trailblazer Award
This award is the highest honor bestowed upon an individual in recognition of their significant contributions that have helped to shape and evolve the field of health and well-being coaching in an impactful way. This award is presented to individuals who have been extensively devoted to the advancement of the health and well-being coaching profession nationally and/or internationally for a minimum of 10 years, and is based on a demonstrated track record of outstanding leadership, meaningful collaboration and forward thinking innovation and advancement.
Submit Trailblazer Award Nomination
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