The AusMumpreneur awards are a nationally recognised awards that have been running since 2009. Proudly presented by AusMumpreneur and The Women’s Business School, the Awards recognise the best and brightest in the Australian Mums in Business, acknowledging success in business, product development, innovation and customer service at a glamorous awards event. 

Previous AusMumpreneur of the Year winners and finalists have been featured in national media including 60 minutes, Sunrise, The Today Show, Today Tonight, Cosmopolitan, and the Herald Sun and The Australian since winning this award.

Past AusMumpreneur Awards winners include some of Australia’s biggest brands like B,Box, Figur, Active Truth, Share the Dignity, Melvory, Mama Movement, Queen of Confidence, Absolute Business Brokers and so many more of Australia’s Leading Brands, Entrepreneurs and Industry Leaders.

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The AusMumpreneur Conference and AusMumpreneur Awards are all about supporting Australian mums in business. This event provides a unique opportunity for women from all over Australia to come together to promote their business, connect with fellow mums in business and celebrate!

Imagine yourself as a national awards winner, a respected speaker and representative of a national organisation!

These are just some of the opportunities that await the winners of the AusMumpreneur Awards.

Previous AusMumpreneur of the Year winners and finalists have been featured in national media including 60 minutes, Sunrise, The Today Show, Today Tonight, Cosmopolitan, and the Herald Sun and The Australian since winning this award.

So is this your year to shine?

The AusMumpreneur Awards are a trusted and respected initiative with a 15-year history of celebrating and elevating mums in business, leadership, and impact across Australia.

Here’s how we ensure our awards are real, fair, and credible:

✅ Established Reputation
We’ve been in business for 15 years, with thousands of past entrants and a legacy of empowering women through recognition, connection, and opportunity.

✅ Transparent Judging Process
All nominees complete a full application with detailed questions. Every category is reviewed by a panel of three independent judges, who score each question individually. Any conflicts of interest are declared, and judges are recused from assessing anyone they know to ensure complete impartiality.

✅ Independent, High-Calibre Judging Panel
Our judging panel includes over 45 respected entrepreneurs and industry leaders, many of whom are past award winners. These women give back to the community each year by lending their time and expertise to support emerging changemakers.

✅ Strict Due Diligence
We take all claims seriously and conduct thorough background checks to verify nominee information before finalists or winners are announced.

✅ Secure & Professional Technology
We use a world-class, secure awards management platform to manage applications, judging, and scoring. This ensures data security, transparency, and a smooth, fair process for everyone involved.

We are proud to run an ethical, empowering and nationally recognised awards program that gives women the recognition and visibility they deserve.

New 2026

AusMumpreneur Top 100!

This year the AusMumpreneur Awards feature two levels of recognition across the program.

Our prestigious Top 10 “Of the Year” Awards represent the highest honours of the AusMumpreneur Awards and celebrate exceptional leadership, innovation, impact and business excellence across Australia.

These major awards will be announced at the exclusive AusMumpreneur Top 100 Gala Dinner, attended by the Top 100 Finalists from across the country.

All remaining category winners will be announced the following day at the AusMumpreneur Conference, where finalists, entrepreneurs and business leaders come together for a powerful day of connection, learning and celebration.

This two-day experience has been intentionally designed to elevate the prestige of the major awards while creating a meaningful and inspiring celebration for all finalists and category winners.

THE TOP 10 MAJOR AWARDS – Top 100 Fianalists
These awards represent the highest level of recognition within the AusMumpreneur Awards, celebrating exceptional leadership, innovation, impact and business excellence across Australia.

1. AusMumpreneur of the Year
The highest honour recognising an exceptional business owner demonstrating sustained success, leadership, growth and impact over time.

2. Rising Star AusMumpreneur of the Year
Celebrating emerging entrepreneurs demonstrating strong growth, innovation, leadership and exciting future potential.

3. Business Excellence of the Year
Recognising outstanding business performance across leadership, customer impact, innovation and commercial success.

4. Women Changing the World of the Year
Honouring purpose-driven leaders creating meaningful social, community or global impact through business, advocacy or social enterprise.

5. Global Brand of the Year
Recognising businesses successfully expanding their reach, visibility and influence beyond Australia.

6. Digital & Tech Innovation of the Year
Celebrating businesses leveraging technology, digital platforms, innovation or AI to create growth and industry impact.

7. Product Innovation of the Year
Recognising product-based businesses bringing exceptional originality, innovation, design and market impact.

8. Service Business of the Year
Celebrating excellence in service-based businesses delivering exceptional client outcomes and customer experience.

9. Creative Entrepreneur of the Year
Recognising founders in creative industries building impactful, innovative and commercially successful brands.

10. Regional & Remote Business of the Year
Honouring outstanding businesses thriving in regional, rural and remote communities across Australia.

General categories:

Industry Judged Categories + People’s Choice Voting Categories

Your entry into the AusMumpreneur Awards is designed to deliver far more than recognition alone. As part of your participation, you’ll receive a professionally crafted press release template, social media templates, and digital badges to help you promote your involvement and build visibility. You’ll also benefit from our Awards Series Workshops including a Media and PR, Leveraging Awards and the Writing Awards Applications, designed to help you maximise your opportunity and present your business at its very best. Alongside the awards themselves, this comprehensive package is created to elevate your profile, amplify your message, and ensure you gain meaningful value from your entry.

TOP 100 CATEGORIES – PAY FOR 2 OR MORE CATEGORIES FROM THE TOP 100 AND GENERAL AND GET A BONUS CATEGORY BEFORE JUNE 7 2026

GENERAL AWARD CATEGORIES – PAY FOR 2 OR MORE CATEGORIES AND GET A BONUS CATEGORY BEFORE JUNE 7 2026

GENERAL AWARD CATEGORIES

SPECIAL AWARD CATEGORIES

WHICH CATEGORY SHOULD I ENTER?

A simple guide to help you choose the right fit

STEP 1: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN BUSINESS?

This determines your primary category

• Less than 2 years → Emerging AusMumpreneur of the Year
• 2 – 5 years → Rising Star AusMumpreneur of the Year
• 5+ years → AusMumpreneur of the Year

You can enter additional categories beyond this.

STEP 2: WHAT TYPE OF BUSINESS DO YOU HAVE? 

Choose the category that best reflects how you generate revenue:

STEP 3: DO YOU CREATE IMPACT?

STEP 3: DO YOU CREATE IMPACT?

You may also be eligible for:

• Women Changing the World Award
• Social Enterprise Award
• Sustainability & Impact Award
• Community Impact Award

These are powerful categories if your work goes beyond profit.

STEP 4: DO YOU HAVE A UNIQUE EDGE?

You might also qualify for:

• Global Brand Award (operating internationally)
• Business Evolution Award (you’ve pivoted or scaled significantly)
• Overcoming the Odds Award (significant personal or business challenges)
• The One to Watch Award (pre-launch or very early stage)

STEP 5: DO YOU IDENTIFY WITH ANY OF THESE?

You may choose to enter:

• Indigenous Business Excellence Award
• Multicultural Business Excellence Award
• Disability Leadership in Business Award
• LGBTQIA+ Business Excellence Award

QUICK RECOMMENDATION

Most entrants apply for:

• 1-3 x Business/Industry Categories
• 1 x Impact or Leadership Category
• 1 x Top 10 Category
• 1 x People’s Choice Category
• Optional: Primary Category (based on years in business, most competetive)

Total: 3–5 categories is ideal

Terms and Conditions

Please read all terms and conditions

1. Agreeing to the terms and conditions and giving permission for your quotes, images, video, audio and any other material associated with the AusMumpreneur Awards and/or your submission, to be used by AusMumpreneur is a condition of entry. Completing your submission indicates your agreement to abide by these terms.
2. Entrants must be either from Australia or New Zealand and own their own businesses, non-profit organisations or blogs.
3. To enter your application there is an admin fee per category. All nominees also receive a press release template to send to your local media as part of your nomination pack.
4. Nominees must display the AusMumpreneur Award Nominee Banner on their website or blog with a link back to www.ausmumpreneur.com Winners in all categories must display the AusMumpreneur Awards Winner button on their homepage for 12 months.
5. Nominees are encouraged to gain media exposure for their business and all nominees receive a press release template to send to your local media as part of your nomination pack.
6. Winners will be announced at the AusMumpreneur Conference, Sydney 2026
7. Businesses with a forum for mums in business are ineligible to enter the awards
8. AusMumpreneur staff and family members are ineligible to enter the awards
9. We have a zero tolerance policy on bullying. Bullying, harassment or intimidation of other contestants will not be tolerated. This includes attempting to contact the awards coordinators with negative information about nominees or encouraging third party individuals to cause trouble for fellow nominees.
10. Nominees behaving unethically or unprofessionally may be disqualified at the coordinators discretion and will not be refunded. No correspondence will be entered into.
11. These awards are competitive and not everyone can be a finalist or a winner, while this may be disappointing for some, all entrants are expected to act professionally at all times. Individuals who fail to act professionally may be asked to retract their nomination from the awards and will not be refunded.
12. These awards are provided by the AusMumpreneur Network to support, encourage and celebrate the efforts of mums in business and all entrants are asked to be respectful of the AusMumpreneur Network staff, volunteers and our awards partners’ brands. Individuals who fail to abide by these guidelines at the awards coordinators’ discretion, may be eliminated from the awards and not refunded.
13. Due to the large volume of emails we receive we regret to inform that we are unable to answer all individual email questions regarding the awards, please refer to the FAQ before emailing us
14. Accepting these terms and conditions is a condition of entry.

People’s choice

1. People’s Choice finalists do not have interviews and will be selected by public vote.
2. People’s Choice winners will be selected by number of votes at close of voting. No correspondence will be entered into.
3. There is to be only ONE vote per person – voters MAY NOT vote under false names/email addresses/accounts OR vote for other people/email addresses/accounts.
4. Nominees are allowed to run promotions, however we do ask that discounts, special offers, prizes etc are drawn randomly as a general thank you for support from ALL fans/customers/supporters rather than just those who have voted. AusMumpreneur accepts no responsibility for the running of these competitions or promotions in any way.
5. Nominees are encouraged to use social media, newsletters, their website, local PR etc to gain votes but NOT third party ‘click-farm’ sites or bought votes.

Judged categories

1. Finalists in the judged categories will be contacted by email with confirmation that they have qualified as finalists.
2. Judging is based on your entry submission. The panel decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
3. The finalists list will also be published at ausmumpreneur.com
4. Finalists in the judged categories will be interviewed online through zoom *Compulsory for judged category finalists
5. Winners in each category will be announced at the AusMumpreneur Awards gala dinner

Accepting these terms and conditions is a condition of entry.

FAQs

Can I enter more than one category? Yes.

Do I have to be a member of AusMumpreneur to be nominated? No. Anyone can nominate or be nominated

Can I nominate my own business or does someone else have to nominate me? Yes you can nominate yourself.

How do I nominate? You can nominate your own business or a business you love, by filling out the form above. You or the business owner you have nominated will then be sent an email with the details to complete the awards application form

Do I have to go to the awards? No, However we would love to see you at the event if possible it’s an important part of the awards experience and community.

Why is there an entry fee? The AusMumpreneur Awards are an independent awards event to celebrate Mums in Business we don’t have a large corporate brand behind us like other awards. The entry fees help to pay our staff for the awards period and the cost towards organising this event.  We knew some business owners would feel they couldn’t afford it, but perhaps those people would be better off applying next year or when their business was ready to pay the entry fee. We also offer a number of categories at no cost. The entry fee also includes a press release template valued at $299 and $2 from each entry goes towards providing scholarships for deserving women.   

Do I have to display the awards banner on my website? Yes. Displaying the banner and linking to www.Ausmumpreneur.com is a condition of entry.

Should I contact my local media? Yes. All nominees are encouraged to contact their local media and we will provide you with a media release template. Please let us know if someone runs your story. Finalists and winners must also be available for any media inquiries and interviews in the lead-up and following the AusMumpreneur Awards.

If my friends are too busy to vote, can I vote for them? No. Only one vote per person is allowed, voting for anyone else or voting more than once is cheating and may result in your profile being paused or disqualification.

How are finalists selected? In the judged categories finalists are selected by a panel of judges based on responses to questions. The top 10 finalists are then required to be interviewed and winners and place getters in each category are determined by a panel of 3 independent judges.

Do people’s choice finalists have interviews? No. People’s choice winners are the person in each category with the most votes at the end of voting.

During people’s choice voting is it ok to run promotions? Yes. However we do ask that discounts, special offers, prizes etc are drawn randomly as a general thank you for support from ALL fans/customers/supporters rather than just those who have voted. AusMumpreneur takes no responsibility for any promotions held by any nominees, finalists or individuals.