Awards and Recognition
The Ken Blanchard Companies®, and its founders Ken and Margie Blanchard, have been honoured with a number of prestigious awards during the company's 28 year history.
Company and Program Awards
- Irish business man, Liam Casey, of high growth PCH China Solutions, a Blanchard International Ireland customer and advocate of Blanchard programmes including Situational Leadership II(r), was named Ernst & Young Ireland's "Entrepreneur of the Year" for 2008.
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ELearning! Magazine Reader's Poll names Blanchard among hundreds of solutions providers to receive a "Best of ELearning! 2006" award in the "Best of Leadership Content" category. Blanchard was selected from a comprehensive poll of e-learning executives and professionals worldwide.
The Ken Blanchard Companies received an
- The Ken Blanchard Companies was awarded the Excellence in Community Service Award.
- The Human Resource Executive magazine named the Blanchard Teams programme, Gung Ho!® one of the top 10 products of the year.
- The Ken Blanchard Companies was awarded the Premier Partner Award for Outstanding Performance by Honda of America.
- The Ken Blanchard Companies was a Crystal Winner in The Best Places to Work.
- The Blanchard product line The Leadership Bridge: Situational Leadership® II and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® received an honourable mention for best new product from Human Resource Executive magazine.
- The "Leadership Training for Supervisors" product line was named one of the top 10 products of the year by Human Resource Executive magazine.
Blanchard Global Founders - Ken and Margie Blanchard.
- Ken Blanchard was given Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree, in 2006, from Concordia University, Irvine, California.
- In 2005 Amazon.com honored Ken Blanchard as one of their top 25 bestselling authors of all time.
- Margie Blanchard was chosen Speaker of the Year by New Woman magazine and American Express.
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Ken Blanchard received the National Speakers Association’s highest honor, the Council of Peers Award of Excellence. - Ken and Margie Blanchard were co-recipients of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Cornell University.
- Ken Blanchard was inducted into the Human Resource Development Hall of Fame and he received the Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International.
- The American Society of Training and Development awarded Ken Blanchard the Distinguished Contribution to Human Resource Development Award.
- Ken Blanchard was recognised as one of the Top 50 Living "Experts" by the management consulting firm, Accenture.
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Ken Blanchard received the Thought Leadership Award from ISA, the Association of Learning Providers.

