The Automotive 30% Membership has introduced the Inspiring Automotive Ladies 2025 award winners.
Nominations have been made by means of the “Inspiring Automotive Women – Who Inspires You?” LinkedIn marketing campaign that ran in July 2024, and was sponsored by the Lithia UK companies Evans Halshaw, Stratstone and Jardine Motors Group.
This resulted in 508 nominations, from firms inside and past the Membership members.
Standards included serving to to advertise the corporate as an employer of selection for ladies, endeavor faculties outreach, establishing a D&I or girls’s community, mentoring or teaching feminine colleagues, creating options and insurance policies to assist girls to thrive within the office, being a visual feminine automotive influencer on social media, and elevating consciousness of intersectionality and underrepresented feminine teams.
Additional standards included being an inspirational feminine position mannequin, being a trailblazer in a job often achieved by males, inspiring friends to create an inclusive tradition, and driving change to make sure feminine prospects are served higher.
Winners of the Inspiring Automotive Ladies 2025 Award embrace Lynne McBurney (group folks director, Arnold Clark), Jessica Montgomery (grasp technician, Vertu Motors), Justine Rebecca Bates (folks director, Group 1), Tracey Newton (Chief Folks Officer, JCT600), Claire Bell (head of variety and inclusion, Lithia UK), Nicola Sutherland (folks and tradition director, Steer Automotive Group), and Vikki Gill (enterprise technical help supervisor, TrustFord).
All names of winners could be considered right here.
Particular Recognition Winners have been Erin Banker (editorial director, Auto Dealer) and Michelle Breffitt (co-founder, Ladies Drive Electrical). This award recognises efforts to incorporate and talk with the feminine EV buyer.
The 2025 Automotive 30% Membership Founder’s Award recognises efforts to create a feminine apprentice expertise pipeline by means of faculties engagement and inclusive apprentice search programmes. This 12 months’s winner is Nicola Thompson (partnership integration advertising supervisor, Vertu Motors).
The Automotive 30% Membership’s Companion Sponsor is The IMI, and the winners will come collectively to obtain their awards on March twelfth in a non-public ceremony at The IMI Annual Awards Dinner. The general Inspiring Automotive Girl of The 12 months Award Winner will probably be offered together with her award.
