AWARDS

VitalSmarts offers award-winning training products and solutions that have gained the recognition of some of the industry’s largest and most influential associations and publications. In addition, the executive team has earned top honors for their leadership, success, vision, and dedication. Recent awards received include:

Leadership Excellence 500
October 2011
VitalSmarts was ranked No. 13 in the large consulting group category of best leadership development firms in North America.

MountainWest Capital Network's Utah 100
October 2011
VitalSmarts was ranked No. 94 on the Utah 100 list of most successful and fastest growing companies.

Inc. Magazine
September 2011
VitalSmarts was ranked No. 3425 on the 2011 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in America.

EMPixx Awards
August 2011
VitalSmarts received a platinum and gold award for their excellence in moving pixels.

Telly Awards
April 2011
VitalSmarts received one first-place silver award and one second-place bronze award from the 32nd Annual Telly Awards for outstanding videos.

Utah Valley BusinessQ Top Revenue Companies
March 2011
VitalSmarts was ranked No. 8 in the UV50 list of top revenue companies.

PRSA Golden Spike Awards
November 2010
VitalSmarts won two finalist awards from the Public Relations Society of America for excellence in communication campaigns.

Utah Business Forty under 40
November 2010
Vincent Han, president of Change Anything, a division of VitalSmarts, was selected by Utah Business as one of Utah's top 40 business executives under the age of 40.

MountainWest Capital Network's Utah 100
October 2010
VitalSmarts is ranked #77 on the Utah 100 list of most successful and fastest growing companies.

Inc. Magazine
October 2010
VitalSmarts was ranked No. 3746 on the 2010 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in America.

Utah Business Fast 50
August 2010
VitalSmarts was ranked No. 29 on the list of the 50 fastest growing and revenue-generating companies in Utah.

2010 Stevie Awards Winner
June 2010
VitalSmarts won a Stevie Award in The 2010 American Business Awards in the category of Marketing Department of the Year.

 

Communicator Awards
May 2010
The Crucial Skills blog was awarded the prestigious Silver Communicator Award in the Business Blog category of the 2010 Communicator Awards.

Utah Business 30 Women to Watch
April 2010
Mary Dondiego McChesney, senior marketing director at VitalSmarts, was selected by Utah Business as one of the top 30 women worth watching.

Telly Awards
April 2010
VitalSmarts received two first-place silver awards and four second-place bronze awards from the 31st Annual Telly Awards for outstanding videos.

UV50
March 2010
VitalSmarts was ranked #9 on the list of Top Revenue Companies in Utah Valley.

Top Training Product of the Year
September 2009
Influencer Training was named one of the five top training products of the year by Human Resource Executive Magazine for its ability to deliver results.

Inc. Magazine
September 2009
VitalSmarts ranks #2,509 on the 2009 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in America.

Utah Business Fast 50
August 2009
VitalSmarts was ranked #29 on the list of the 50 fastest growing and revenue-generating companies in Utah.

MIT Change Management Approach of the Year 2009
August 2009
Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, and Andy Shimberg receive the Beckhard Memorial Prize by MIT Sloan Management Review for the most outstanding article on planned change and organizational development of the year for their article "How to Have Influence," originally published in the Fall of 2008. 

UV50
July 2009
VitalSmarts was ranked #12 on the list of Top Revenue Companies and #20 on the list of the fastest-growing companies in Utah Valley.

2009 Stevie Awards Finalist
June 2009
VitalSmarts product development team is named a finalist in The 2009 American Business Awards in the Best Product Development Team category.

Soundview Award for Best Business Book of 2008
February 2009
Influencer: The Power to Change Anything receives the award for the Best Business Book of 2008 by Soundview Executive Summaries. This award makes the authors the only two-time winners of the Harold Longman Award. Their second bestseller, Crucial Confrontations, was names the Best Business Book of 2004.

MountainWest Capital Network's Utah 100
October 2008
VitalSmarts is ranked #59 on the Utah 100 list of most successful and fastest growing companies.

Inc. Magazine
September 2008
VitalSmarts ranks #2216 on the 2008 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in America.

Telly Awards
June 2008
VitalSmarts receives a silver and two bronze awards from the 29th Annual Telly Awards for outstanding videos.

Hermes Creative Award
May 15, 2008
The Crucial Skills Newsletter is named a gold winner for content and design by the Hermes Creative Awards.

ISA Business of the Year
May 15, 2008
The Association of Learning Providers recognizes VitalSmarts as the business of the year for its commitment to workplace learning and performance.

UV50
March 2008
VitalSmarts was ranked #12 on the list of Top Revenue Companies and #20 on the list of the fastest-growing companies in Utah Valley.

ASTD Excellence in Practice Awards
January 2008
VitalSmarts, in partnership with MaineGeneral Health System, wins an excellence in practice award for MaineGeneral's roll out of Crucial Conversations Training which resulted in improved patient safety and employee satisfaction as well as a complete cultural transformation.

MountainWest Capital Network's Utah 100
October 2007
VitalSmarts is ranked #37 on the Utah 100 list of most successful and fastest growing companies.

Leadership Excellence 100 best Leadership Development programs in North America
September 2007
Leadership Excellence ranks VitalSmarts as #7 on the list of 100 best Leadership Development programs in the Large Consulting Group division.

Inc. Magazine
September 2007
VitalSmarts ranks #1,501 on the 2007 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in America.
 

2007 Stevie Awards
June 2007
VitalSmarts won a Stevie Award in The 2007 American Business Awards in the category of Best Sales Team.

Ernst and Young Enterpreneur of the Year 2007
June 2007
VitalSmarts co-founders, Al Switzler, Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan and Mike Carter, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 Award in the Utah region. This award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses.

MountainWest Capital Network's Utah 100
October 2006
VitalSmarts is ranked #35 on the Utah 100 list of most successful and fastest growing companies.

Leadership Excellence 100 best Leadership Development programs in North America
September 2006
Leadership Excellence ranks VitalSmarts as #6 on the list of 100 best Leadership Development programs in the Large Consulting Group division.

Inc. Magazine
September 2006
VitalSmarts ranks #491 on the 2006 Inc. 500, for the second consecutive year with a sales growth of 307.8%

Utah Valley BusinessQ "40 Under 40"
September 2006
Steve Willis of VitalSmarts is named as one of Utah Valley's top 40 business professionals under the age of 40.

Financial Times Bestseller List
September 2006
Crucial Conversations reaches #1 on the The Financial Times bestseller list. Financial Times is an international business newspaper printed in 22 cities: London, Leeds, Dublin, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Milan, Madrid, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Washington DC, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Dubai and Johannesburg.

Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum "Top 25 Under 5"
July 2006
VitalSmarts is ranked second in Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum’s Top 25 companies under five years old.

Publications Management Magnum Opus Awards
July 2006
The Crucial Skills Newsletter won a bronze award in the category of "most improved."

BusinessWeek Bestseller
June 2006
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High climbs to #6 on the BusinessWeek bestseller list.

BusinessWeek Bestseller
April 2006
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High reaches #8 on the BusinessWeek bestseller list.

BusinessWeek Bestseller
November 2005
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High climbs to #5 on the BusinessWeek bestseller list.

Inc. Magazine
October 2005
VitalSmarts ranks #293 on the 2005 Inc. 500, with three-year sales growth of 432%.

Utah Valley Magazine
September 2005
With more than 386,000 copies sold, Crucial Conversations is named the #2 book to come out of Utah Valley in the past five years.

Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum "Top 25 Under 5"
September 2005
VitalSmarts is ranked third in Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum’s Top 25 companies under five years old.

BusinessWeek Bestseller
August 2005
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High climbs to #7 on the BusinessWeek bestseller list. 

Leadership Excellence 100 best Leadership Development programs in North America
August 2005
VitalSmarts was named among the top 10 leadership development firms in North America. Executive Excellence Publishing ranked VitalSmarts #7 in the large consulting group category. Applicants were judged on vision, involvement, measurement, accountability, design, curriculum, presenters, take-home value for participants, and outcome.

Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist
July 2005
VitalSmarts execs Mike Carter, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler, Ron McMillan, and Kerry Patterson were named finalists in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

BusinessWeek Bestseller
June 2005
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High is ranked for the second time on BusinessWeek's bestseller list.

Soundview Book of the Year Award Winner
March 2005
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior (McGraw-Hill, 2004) was named Book of the Year by SoundView Concepts.

To view awards from 2004 visit the Awards Archive