London, U.K. – April 24, 2017 – UK-based MindTools.com is celebrating a prestigious double success after winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
Mind Tools is one of the world’s foremost providers of online leadership, management and career skills training, with more than 27 million users in 160 countries.
The company has grown rapidly in recent years, and now generates more than 80 per cent of its revenue from overseas. That success has been recognised with a 2017 Queen’s Award for Enterprise, for outstanding achievement in International Trade.
A Queen’s Award is regarded as a “knighthood” for a business, and is the highest official UK award for British business.
It is the second award Mind Tools has scooped recently, coming just two months after it earned a rare Investors in People Gold standard, which recognises its excellence as an employer, and its commitment to people management.
Mind Tools CEO James Manktelow said: “This is a huge honour for Mind Tools, and it’s something we are very proud of. This Queen’s Award recognises three years of exceptional export growth. I’m very proud of the extraordinary hard work that our people put in every day, and this award reflects their wonderful efforts.”
It is the second time that the company has won a Queen’s Award; it earned its first award in 2012, when it employed just eight people. It now employs more than 40 people in Sussex and London, and has contractors in other parts of the world, including France, South Africa, India and the USA.
The award caps an amazing year for Mind Tools, which is also celebrating the first anniversary of its move into its state-of-the-art head office in Sussex, UK.
Mind Tools serves more than 27 million visitors to its website, and offers management, leadership and career skills training to individual and corporate clients worldwide. Its corporate clients include the BBC, Mastercard, the Metropolitan Police, the European Space Agency, and Travis Perkins.
Who we are, and what we do:
Mind Tools has a huge, positive impact on the working lives of millions of people around the world.
Our mission is to become the world’s favourite place to learn leadership, management and personal effectiveness skills, and we’ve worked towards this mission for the last 20 years. By doing this, and by helping more than 27 million people each year how to use the best people management and leadership practices, we help them to be great bosses, have happy successful careers, and contribute positively to the success of their organisations.
