ILA Awards
Special Recognition
Special Recognition Award winners are individuals and/or organizations who have performed outstanding service to the ILA for an extended period of time, or have provided unusual service to the promotion of listening over a period of at least one full year. Membership in ILA is not a prerequisite for this award.
2024 - Krishna Naineni
2023 - Margarete Imhof
2021 - Debra Worthington, Kathy O'Brien, & Sandra Bodin-Lerner
2020 - Jean-Francois Mathieu
2019 - Michael Purdy
2018 - Online Webinars Committee (Philip Tirpak, Laura Janusik, Nanette Johnson-Curiskis) &
Jennifer Grau
2017 - International Day of Listening Organizing Committee (Sheila Bentley, Laura Janusik, Andy
Wolvin, Margarete Imhof, Helen Ralston, Corine Jensen)
2016 - Julian Treasure
2015 - Corine Jansen
2014 - Sardool Singh
2011 - Lyman "Manny" and Dee Steil
2010 - Donna Renaud, Richard Halley, Susan Timm, & CLP Program
2009 - Alverno College of Milwaukee, StoryCorps
2008 - The University of Maryland University College
2007 - Rockhurst University, Volker Bernius, Mechthild Hagen, Ludowika Huber
2006 - Edie Cole, Sandy Stein, Margarete Imhof
2005 - Thomas L. Friedman
2003 - Kimberly Batty-Herbert, Joseph McGee, Anne McGee, Ball State University, Daisy Bates, Robert Bohlken, Alan Brunacini (Phoenix Fire Chief), & Carolyn Coakley Hickerson
1990 - Harry Cook, Michael Cronin, Lisa Vickers Darnell, Fortune Magazine, & James Gallagher
1988 - Nadine Marsnik & Hannah Merker (The Mideast Citizen'’ Diplomacy Compassionate Listening Project), Lucile Nichols, Barbara Nixon, Kenneth Paulin, & Richard Quianthy, Steve Rhodes & Diana Corley Schnapp, & ShopKo Stores, Inc.
1987 - Ethen Glenn & Peter van der Shaft
1985 - Dee Steil, Carole Grau, Green Bay Online, Hallmark Cards, International Paper, & Listen, Inc.
1980 - Sperry Corporation & Charles Swanson (Telstar), Kathy Thompson& Harvey Weiss (Wisconsin
Public Radio), & Mary Wise