
2021 STEP Ahead Award Winners
See the 2021 STEP Awards Booklet
DOWNLOAD PDFSTEP Ahead Award Honorees and Emerging Leaders have accomplished success within their companies and have proven to be leaders in the industry as a whole. The Institute has also chosen to recognize a select few for the Emerging Leaders category – representing young women who are the future of the industry and have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments at just the beginning of their careers.
2021 Honorees and Emerging Leaders
The following women were honored with STEP Ahead Awards. Take a look at the amazing stories of these impressive women in the 2021 STEP Ahead Awards profile book.
BorgWarner Inc.
McCormick & Company, Inc.
Rockwell Automation, Inc.
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Cooper Standard
ExxonMobil
Caterpillar Inc.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
Arconic Corporation
Kennametal
NXP Semiconductors
The Dow Chemical Company
Lockheed Martin Corporation
The Boeing Company
Volvo Penta of the Americas
Ovintiv Inc.
Rockwell Automation, Inc.
AGCO Corporation
DENSO
Grady-White Boats, Inc.
Toyota Motor North America
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.
STIHL Inc.
Apprentice.io
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation
The Boeing Company
GE Healthcare
John Deere
Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
Astra
Ingredion Incorporated
Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
3M
Boston Scientific Corporation
AGCO Corporation
Ferrara Manufacturing
Faurecia Interior Systems
Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Siemens Energy, Inc.
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Caterpillar Inc.
Brown-Forman Corporation
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Ecolab Inc.
Whirlpool Corporation
Faurecia
3M
Koppers Inc.
Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, Inc.
BASF Corporation
PPG
The Dow Chemical Company
International Paper Co.
The Dow Chemical Company
Cornerstone Building Brands
National Gypsum Company
Johnson & Johnson
Molson Coors Beverage Company
Pratt & Whitney
Trane Technologies
INEOS Olefins & Polymers
GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Eli Lilly and Company
ITAC
USG Corporation
Dialight PLC
Arconic Corporation
Unilever
ExxonMobil
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Oshkosh Corporation
ABB Inc.
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Emerson
89 North
Lear Corporation
Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc
BASF Corporation
Shintech, Inc.
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Ecolab Inc.
Trane Technologies
The Procter & Gamble Company
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Novelis Inc.
Toyota Motor North America
PPG
Advansix Inc.
Merck & Co., Inc.
Covestro LLC
BASF Corporation
H.B. Fuller
IBM
Emerson
3M
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Henkel Corporation
Saint-Gobain/CertainTeed
Welbilt, Inc.
Agri-industrial Plastics Co.
Nestlé Purina PetCare Company
The Proctor & Gamble Company
Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Medical Care
GE Appliances, a Haier Company
IBM
Smithfield Foods, Inc.
HarbisonWalker International, Inc.
Plex Systems, Inc.
Greene Tweed
Spirit AeroSystems
Malibu Boats
ABB Inc.
WestRock
The Proctor & Gamble Company
Sealed Air Corporation
Cargill
Dover Fueling Solutions
Ball Aerospace
General Motors
General Motors
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Pratt & Whitney
Intel Corporation
Mars, Inc.
Jabil Inc.
Fresenius Medical Care
INEOS Olefins & Polymers
*Asterisk indicates an Emerging Leader