DiSHA Excellence
Awards 2027

Recognises an outstanding project professional who combines exceptional delivery, leadership, stakeholder influence, ethical judgement and contribution to the profession.

Recognises an early-career project professional demonstrating measurable impact, leadership potential, learning agility and contribution to the future of project management.

Recognises exceptional leadership of a complex project or programme, particularly where outcomes depended on alignment, influence, resilience and team leadership.

Recognises sustained, high-impact contribution to the advancement of project management over a significant period.

Recognises an outstanding large-scale project that demonstrates measurable value, professional project management excellence, innovation and responsible leadership.

Recognises an outstanding medium-scale project where professional project management delivered compelling outcomes and value.

Recognises an outstanding small-scale project and demonstrates that excellence and impact are not dependent on project budget or team size.

Selects the single project that, in the Grand Jury’s judgement, best represents DiSHA 2027’s standard of project excellence, value and impact.

Recognises a large-scale project that delivers measurable and sustainable benefit to communities or society.

Recognises a medium-scale project delivering measurable and sustainable social value.

Recognises high-impact grassroots or focused social projects where disciplined project management creates meaningful outcomes despite modest resources.

Recognises a project that integrates environmental, social and economic sustainability into decisions and outcomes and demonstrates measurable long-term value.

Recognises an AI-enabled project that created measurable business, customer, operational or societal value through responsible implementation.

Recognises a technology-enabled transformation that materially changes organisational capability, customer experience, operating model or business outcomes.

Recognises exceptional use of agile, adaptive or hybrid delivery approaches chosen and tailored to the context to improve value, responsiveness and stakeholder outcomes.

Recognises exceptional leadership and project-management discipline in recovering a distressed, delayed, over-budget, failing or severely challenged initiative.

Recognises a PMO/EPMO/VMO that demonstrates strategic alignment, measurable organisational value, governance excellence and sustained capability improvement.

Recognises outstanding management of a programme comprising interdependent projects and change initiatives to realise strategic benefits.

Recognises an organisation or portfolio function that demonstrably converts strategy into prioritised investment, disciplined execution and measurable value.

Recognises outstanding project or initiative delivery in automotive, manufacturing, Industry 4.0, product development, supply chain, operations or related industrial environments.

Recognises outstanding project delivery in construction, infrastructure, EPC, capital projects, energy, transportation, real estate or related sectors.

Recognises exceptional project or capability-centre excellence within the AI and Global Capability Centre ecosystem.

Recognises research, frameworks, whitepapers, methods or thought leadership that materially advances understanding or practice of project, programme or portfolio management.

Recognises a student or student team that demonstrates strong project thinking, execution, innovation and measurable outcomes.

Recognises an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to strengthening the project-management community through mentoring, learning, volunteering, inclusion, outreach or professional development.