Awards Eligibility & Recognition Framework

Recognition Has More Than One Form

Brand YOUth Global recognizes initiative, enterprise, leadership, relationships, and service.

Our Awards recognize entrepreneurial leaders whose work and potential deserve greater visibility. Honorary Membership recognizes those whose encouragement, contribution, and relationships have helped people, ideas, and Brand YOUth Global move forward.

Each is a distinct form of recognition.

2026 · The next chapter

Building Bridges. Passing Batons.

Nominations are open for the 2026 Brand YOUth Global Awards, with the Gala set for November 29, 2026.
25 April 2025

The Baton Was Passed.

Returning 2019 Special Awardees placed ceremonial batons into the hands of the NextGen 12 at the Exhibition Centre, Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown.

The gesture made the theme visible: experience meeting possibility, one generation welcoming the next, and recognition becoming responsibility.

“Building Bridges. Passing Batons.”

The BYG Awards

Building Bridges. Passing Batons.

Brand YOUth Global recognizes initiative, enterprise, leadership, relationships, and service.

Our Awards recognize entrepreneurial leaders whose work and potential deserve greater visibility. Honorary Membership recognizes those whose encouragement, contribution, and relationships have helped people, ideas, and Brand YOUth Global move forward.

Each is a distinct form of recognition.

What We Consider

1. Enterprise and Progress

Meaningful progress as a business owner, entrepreneur, emerging founder, or senior business leader who has helped to establish, build, grow, innovate, or transform an enterprise.

2. Leadership and Purpose

Leadership, initiative, purpose, and a commitment to excellence.

3. Positive Impact

Positive impact on others, an organization, an industry, a community, or Guyana’s development.

4. Character and Resilience

Integrity, resilience, resourcefulness, and the ability to make progress despite challenges.

5. Bridge-Building

A willingness to build bridges by learning from others, collaborating across generations, or creating meaningful relationships.

6. Potential to Receive the Baton

The potential to receive the baton and use the opportunity, knowledge, relationships, or visibility gained to advance their work and help others.

REQUIRED

Participation Is Required

Willingness and availability to participate in the Awards process and attend the BYG Awards Gala in November, if selected.

Who May Be Nominated

Nominees do not need to be widely known, own a large company, or have achieved extraordinary financial success.

They may be established entrepreneurs, emerging founders, professionals intentionally working toward entrepreneurship, or senior leaders with genuine responsibility for building, growing, innovating, or transforming an enterprise.

What matters is not title or ownership alone, but evidence of initiative, contribution, purpose, progress, and potential.