This award recognizes a business student who has demonstrated leadership in a co-curricular project or initiative that resulted in a positive impact on their community. This student exemplifies the leadership traits that make Wisconsin School of Business students Trusted to Lead. These traits include competency and trust, humility and grit, individual goals for collective success, and inclusive leadership. In addition, this student has achieved academic excellence and has put the business knowledge they have learned in the classroom into action throughout this project/initiative.

These leadership traits are defined in the following ways:

Competency and Trust – WSB students master the techniques and tools of their industry, but they are distinguished by being in tune with others and the combined contributions to the greater community.

Humility and Grit – WSB students are high achievers with great ambitions. They become team members everyone seeks out – the dependable ones; the people who deliver and who surpass expectations; the unrelenting seekers of a better path forward.

Individual Goals for Collective Success – WSB students work in collaboration with others to achieve for our community and our world. They demonstrate the confidence to pursue new solutions and the initiative to achieve them together.

Inclusive Leadership – WSB students approach working in a diverse environment in a way that acknowledges various backgrounds/identities. Students actively learn to recognize and minimize unconscious biases and remove structural barriers to equality in order to create an inclusive and welcoming environment. A key component of Inclusive Leadership is cultural competency.

To be eligible for the Business Badger Leadership Award, a student must meet the following criteria:

• At least sophomore standing as an admitted undergraduate business student in the Wisconsin School of Business
• Clearly articulates their involvement in a co-curricular project, program, or other initiative that led to a positive impact on a specific community
• Demonstrates how the 4 leadership traits listed in this application were applied within their initiative
• Explains how they incorporated business skills learned in the classroom into their co-curricular project/initiative

This award is given to an ambitious student regarding their international engagement, whether in-person or virtually. It recognizes a student’s efforts to increase their awareness of global issues & leadership through an internship, a class, or a volunteer project. The chosen student applies skills and values acquired through their international experience to improve themselves as well as their community.

To be eligible for the Global Citizenship Award, the individual must meet the following criteria:

• Has traveled outside of the U.S and/or their home country or engaged virtually with another country (e.g. remote internship or study abroad program) – note, this is open to both domestic and international students
• Has intentionally engaged and interacted with the host culture and community during their international experience
• Has participated in events or activities that foster awareness of global issues
• Demonstrates a desire to apply the knowledge and skills gained from their international experience in future endeavors
• If they traveled outside the U.S. – must have been enrolled in CISI insurance for the duration of their time abroad as required by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Must not have traveled to a country with a U.S. State Department Travel Warning active at the time of travel, unless the trip was approved as an official University of Wisconsin-Madison program
• Must be a current undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

This award honors outstanding student leaders who have made a significant impact on the University of Wisconsin campus, surrounding community and beyond. These students have demonstrated strong leadership skills through outstanding initiative, meaningful involvement, and measurable influence on students, citizens, or programming.

To be eligible for the Individual Leadership Award, an individual must meet the following criteria:

• You must be a current undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison