2025 Accenture Catalyst Award

2025 Accenture Catalyst Award - Application Form

The Accenture Catalyst Award recognises and celebrates those who are empowering the frontline workforce to be future-ready for digital transformation.

This award is open to anyone working at the frontline of health who is building confidence, capability, and competence in the workforce, including clinicians, educators, digital change agents, direct managers or peer mentors, and IT professionals designing systems with and for frontline users. Individuals or teams may apply.

The online form must be filled in no later than midnight, Sunday 26th October.

To be eligible, applicants must show how they have acted as catalysts for meaningful digital transformation at the frontline, turning disruption into momentum. Nominations must also demonstrate impact in the following areas:

Meaningful and measurable outcomes
Sustainability and scalability
Empowering others
Equity in action

The prize package includes:

$5,000 to invest in sustaining or scaling the initiative (e.g. developing tools, funding staff training, enhancing equity, creating resources)
A presentation slot at Digital Health Week NZ 2026 and a complimentary full conference pass (valued at $1,500)

You can nominate yourself or others. All submissions will be reviewed by an independent judging panel, and the winner will be announced at Digital Health Week NZ 2025 in Christchurch.

Information that will be required for this form
You will be asked the following questions in the form

Name, role, organisation and contact details of the nominee and of the person nominating (can be the same person)
A brief (no more than 500 word) description of the project/initiative, the challenge/opportunity it addresses, and the outcomes from this
A brief (no more than 350 word) description of how this project/initiative has prepared the workforce and made a digital health impact
A description of how the person nominated has addressed the following areas
- Meaningful and measurable outcomes
- Sustainability and scalability
- Empowering others
- Equity in Action
How the nominee would use the $5,000 to sustain or scale the initiative

If you have any questions email us.

1. Your first name (person making the nomination) *This question is required.

2. Your last name *This question is required.

3. Your email *This question is required. This question requires a valid email address.

4. Nominee's first name (this can be the same name as the person nominating) *This question is required.

5. Nominee's last name *This question is required.

6. Nominee's job title *This question is required.

7. Nominee's employer *This question is required.

8. Nominee's email *This question is required. This question requires a valid email address.

9. Nominee's health profession *This question is required.

10. Has the nominee been notified that this application has been made? (This is required before we can include them in the list of nominees) *This question is required.

11. Briefly describe (max 350 words) your/the nominee's connection to the frontline workforce and how your initiative supports or empowers them

12. Please describe in 500 words or less your project/initiative overview. Include a brief description of your project initiative, describe the challenge or opportunity that was addressed, and the impact/outcome of the intiative. Note: you have the ability to answer in more detail about this question later in the form. *This question is required.

13. Briefly describe (350 words or less) how this initiative has prepared the workforce and made a digital health impact? *This question is required.

14. Describe how this initiative/the nominee/you have addressed the following areas

Meaningful and Measurable Outcomes: What outcomes have you/the nominee achieved and how do you measure success?

Sustainability and Scalability: How is this initiative sustainable and/or scalable?

Empowering Others: How have you/the nominee enabled or supported others to succeed?

Equity in Action: How does your/the nominee's initiative address equity or improve access for underserved groups?

15. If awarded, how would you use the $5,000 prize to sustain or scale your initiative? *This question is required.

16. By submitting this form, I am confirming that the information provided is true and correct. I also consent for Health Informatics New Zealand and Accenture to use the information in this nomination form for award promotion and media coverage. *This question is required.