The 2020 Excellence in Practice Award (EiP) initiative received over 40 submissions, an all-time record, demonstrating great diversity and showcasing extremely interesting projects. EiP recognise outstanding and impactful client-supplier partnerships in the domains of Leadership, Professional, Talent and Organisational Development. Consistent with the award’s criteria, all cases indicate impact beyond the individual participants. Some include societal impact of the projects in their purpose as well as measurements, be they the nature of the project or intentionally added to enrich the learning experience. A growing number of projects focus on cultural change, intended to create a favourable context such as innovation, entrepreneurialism etc. On a personal level, there are still developments towards a pre-defined set of competencies and profiles but in a number of cases there is an open growth ambition: “tapping into each leader’s innate potential”.