Results
Winner
Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures
Ben Soltoff
Bill Aulet, Tod Hynes, Francis O'Sullivan, Libby Wayman
Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures (DE4CEV) helps people turn ideas into scalable solutions at the intersection of people, planet, and profit. Climate and energy entrepreneurs face challenges that traditional entrepreneurship guides rarely address, including capital-intensive technologies, long development timelines, complex regulation, and the need to deliver both financial and environmental results. Until now, there has been no comprehensive guidebook designed specifically for these challenges. DE4CEV provides a practical, step-by-step framework for identifying customers, evaluating technologies and economics, developing products, attracting capital, managing risk, and scaling organizations. By making climate and energy entrepreneurship more accessible and systematic, it helps innovators translate promising ideas into measurable real-world impact.
Finalist
Destination Stewardship: Drive Sustainability, Economic Renewal, and Cultural Integrity
Tonya Fitzpatrick
Tourism does more than move people and money; it distributes opportunity, visibility, and power. It can determine which businesses prosper, whose history is remembered, whose culture is presented to the world, and who has a voice in shaping a place’s future. Drawing on Tonya Fitzpatrick’s experience in law, civil-rights policy, travel journalism, and tourism governance, the book challenges an industry accustomed to measuring success through arrivals, hotel occupancy, and visitor spending alone. Through research, global case studies, expert interviews, decision frameworks, and measurement tools, Fitzpatrick shows leaders how to build stewardship into governance, finance, procurement, workforce development, cultural storytelling, and performance measurement.