WINNER AI™ Powers Historic Success for Purpol Marketing at 22nd Annual Stevie® Awards for Women in Business

Purpol Marketing Wins Grand Stevie® and Becomes Second Most Awarded Organisation, Beating IBM.

Chippenham, UK – 11 November 2025 – Purpol Marketing Ltd, led by award-winning entrepreneur Denise O’Leary MBE, celebrated a historic night of success at the 22nd Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, held in New York City on 10 November 2025.

Purpol Marketing secured an outstanding 3 Gold, 8 Silver and 3 Bronze Stevie® Awards, and was further honoured with a Grand Stevie® Award for Second Most Awarded Organisation worldwide, ranking ahead of IBM.

The achievement represents a major milestone for Purpol Marketing and its pioneering AI-powered award entry system, WINNER AI™, which played a central role in preparing submissions for Purpol and partner organisations.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor the achievements of women executives, entrepreneurs, employees, and the companies they run – worldwide.  The Stevie Award has been hailed as the world’s premier business award.

Nicknamed the Steviesfor the Greek word for “crowned,” the awards were presented to winners last night during a gala event attended by nominees and their guests at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.  The event was broadcast via Vimeo.

Earlier this year, 29 out of 35 entries across Purpol Marketing, Cherishers 811 CIC, and The Business Exchange South West were named finalists. Following the final judging, those entries converted into an exceptional medal tally:

• Purpol Marketing: 3 Gold, 8 Silver, 3 Bronze
• Partner organisations: 4 Gold, 5 Silver, 6 Bronze

This collective success culminated in Purpol Marketing receiving a Grand Stevie® Award, recognising it as the second most awarded organisation overall at the 2025 Women in Business awards.

The Stevie® Awards for Women in Business celebrate the achievements of women executives, entrepreneurs, and organisations worldwide. This year’s programme attracted more than 1,500 entries from organisations in 48 nations, assessed by over 190 senior business professionals across seven judging committees.

Purpol Marketing’s wins spanned a broad range of categories, including Achievement in Developing and Promoting Women, Diversity & Inclusion, Equal Pay, Female Innovator of the Year, Best Female Entrepreneur in Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and Female Thought Leader of the Year. Denise O’Leary MBE also received multiple honours recognising her leadership in mentoring, social impact, and inclusion across business, government, and non-profit sectors.

A defining factor in this year’s results was the use of WINNER AI™, O’Leary’s proprietary award-entry technology built on her best-selling methodology Winner: How to Win Business Awards. The platform enabled organisations to reduce award preparation time by up to 90%, while maintaining rigour, compliance, and persuasive storytelling.

Commenting on the achievement, Denise O’Leary MBE said:

“Winning a Grand Stevie® and being named the second most awarded organisation – ahead of IBM – is an extraordinary honour. But what matters most is how we achieved it. Using WINNER AI™, we converted 29 finalist entries into Gold, Silver and Bronze wins while saving an estimated 90% of the time traditionally required.

Awards are about visibility, credibility and confidence. I am immensely proud that Purpol Marketing’s success sits alongside the achievements of Cherishers 811 CIC and The Business Exchange. Helping other organisations gain recognition for their impact is the most rewarding part of this journey.”

The awards ceremony took place at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, with more than 400 women leaders and guests attending the gala presentation, which was broadcast live internationally.

Full details of the winners are available via the official Stevie Awards announcement.
Entries for the 2026 Stevie Awards for Women in Business will open in May 2026.

ENDS

About Denise O’Leary MBE and Purpol Marketing

Denise O’Leary MBE is a strategic mentor, bid coach, and founder of Purpol Marketing, specialising in public sector access, inclusive growth, and third-sector resilience. A Chartered Marketer with nearly 30 years of experience, she has delivered over £4.4 billion in secured contracts and grants with an exceptional 92% success rate—more than double the UK average. Her book WINNER has been an Amazon No1 bestseller. Denise measures her success on how much her clients win and is sharing knowledge as an author, mentor and speaker. Since July 2021 Purpol has won £480k grants for charities and has an international profile showcasing effective marketing and branding. Purpol mentor on marketing and how to win awards, grants and bids.

About WINNER AI™

WINNER AI™, created by Denise O’Leary MBE, is the first AI-powered award-entry coach built exclusively to help businesses succeed in awards. Launched in November 2024, it combines award psychology, bid methodology, and storytelling strategy to make entries faster, smarter, and more effective. Features include a 21-step guided intake engine, award-aligned drafting tools, ethical guardrails, and a unique Judge Simulation Mode that mirrors Stevie® Awards scoring. With its reusable business profile function, users can apply their data seamlessly across multiple entries and categories. The platform saves 30+ hours per entry, builds confidence for first-time applicants, and makes award recognition more accessible to underrepresented founders and small teams. WINNER AI™ proves that awards are not just for the few—they are for the prepared. And it is preparing them.

About the Stevie® Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence, and the Stevie Awards for Women in Business.  Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations and territories. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

Persistent Systems sponsored the SheShapesAI categories in the 2025 competition.