The Cultovating Rebelution Awards

Honoring the bold builders, brave breakers, and culture shapers rewriting the rules of work.

The Cultovating Rebelution Awards honor the bold builders, brave breakers, and workplace revolutionaries redefining how we lead, listen, support, and succeed at work.

These aren’t your typical HR trophies. There’s no pay-to-play, no popularity contest, and no performative fluff. Just real recognition for the people doing the real work — often behind the scenes, against the odds, and without the megaphone they deserve.

Why the Name?

This isn’t a typo. It’s a statement. Cultovating Rebelution is the fusion of two big ideas that power this movement:

Rebelution = Rebel + Revolution

Because real change starts when someone finally says, “This isn’t working.” This is about the rule-breakers, system-challengers, and culture warriors who set fire to outdated norms and dare to build something better.

Cultovating = Culture + Cultivate

Because after the fire comes the future. This is about the builders — the ones creating intentional, inclusive, people-powered practices that actually work.

Together, Cultovating Rebelution represents the full arc of transformation: Burn what’s broken. Build what matters.

Who These Awards Are For

This series celebrates the unsung heroes of culture — the HR pros, people leaders, communicators, and quiet disruptors who didn’t wait for permission to make work actually work. Whether you’re redesigning onboarding, rewriting comms, rehumanizing leadership, or rebuilding trust brick by brick, this is your moment.

The Categories

The Talent Magnet

For employer branding that attracts the right people without begging for attention.

Culture Architect

For building onboarding and foundations that actually scale culture — not break it.

Legendary Leadership

For people-first leaders who lead with integrity, impact, and zero ego.

Hire Power

For hiring done with purpose, precision, and zero tolerance for bias or bloat.

Career Catalyst

For driving growth, development, and internal mobility that means something.

Community Champion

For fostering real belonging — beyond tokenism and corporate slogans.

Radical Responsibility

For putting purpose and care at the center of business — and backing it up.

Louder Than Words

For comms that don’t just inform — they inspire, align, and drive change.

The Chain-Breaker

For replacing rigid systems with flexibility that works — for everyone.

The Connector

For building genuine, intentional connections across teams and touchpoints.

Active Listener, Real Results

For turning employee voice into action, not archived surveys.

Minister of Fun

For injecting joy, celebration, and recognition into work without watering down the results.

Reimagined Realities

For the innovators redefining how work happens — and for whom.

Loyalty Unlocked

For keeping people not through perks — but through purpose, trust, and clarity.

Accountable By Design

For proving culture works — with data, transparency, and zero fluff.

Value Validated

For showing people they matter — in pay, in recognition, and in practice.

Want to Nominate Someone?

Applications and nominations will open soon — and whether you're submitting yourself, your team, or someone quietly changing the game behind the scenes, we want to hear your story.

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Have questions? Email kate@sparkleandsassconsulting.com