The Corporate Livewire Prestige Awards recognize small and medium-sized businesses that have proven to be the best in their market over the past 12 months. For 2022, The Research Institute for Risk Intelligence, founded by THE POWER OF RISK author Jim McCormick, won for Marketplace Risk Consultancy of the Year.

All shortlisted companies put forward in the Prestige Awards are asked to support their nomination with evidence of their work, positive feedback from their clients, information on previous accreditation and recognition as well as highlighting the most outstanding parts of their businesses.

The judging panel base their decisions upon areas such as service excellence, quality of the product/ service provided, innovative practices, value, ethical or sustainable methods of working, as well as consistency in performance.

Jim McCormick has been a full-time advisor to organizations and an executive coach since 1996. He previously held various executive level positions in the real estate, construction, and architecture industries, is a former corporate Chief Operating Officer and served in Washington, D.C. in a Presidential administration. His other books are Business Lessons from the Edge (McGraw-Hill) and The First-Time Manager (HarperCollins), which is available in English, French, Polish, Spanish, Modern Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Arabic and Russian.