Awards and Recognition
The Ken Blanchard Companies®, and its founders Ken and Margie Blanchard, have been honored with a number of prestigious awards during the company's 30 year history.
Company and Program Awards
The Ken Blanchard Companies has been awarded Elearning! Magazine’s "Best of ELearning" Award in 2008 for excellence in the Leadership category.
- Retail giant Kohl's Corporation (NYSE:KSS) recognized The Ken Blanchard Companies as its Human Resources Partner of the Year during its 2007 HR Partner Conference.
- ELearning! Magazine Reader's Poll names Blanchard among hundreds of solutions providers to receive a "Best of ELearning! 2006" award in the "Best of Leadership Content" category. Blanchard was selected from a comprehensive poll of e-learning executives and professionals worldwide.
San Diego Magazine, in strategic partnership with Employers Group, named The Ken Blanchard Companies® as one of the best workplaces in San Diego for 2006.
- The Ken Blanchard Companies received an APEX (Achieving Performance Excellence) Award in Leadership Skills Training from the readers of Training magazine.
- The Ken Blanchard Companies was awarded the Excellence in Community Service Award by the United Way of San Diego County.

- The Human Resource Executive magazine named Gung Ho!® one of the top 10 products of the year.
- The Ken Blanchard Companies was awarded the Premier Partner Award for Outstanding Performance by Honda of America.
- The Ken Blanchard Companies was a Crystal Winner in The Best Places to Work in San Diego Awards by the San Diego Society for Human Resources.
- The Blanchard product line The Leadership Bridge: Situational Leadership® II and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® received an honorable mention for best new product from Human Resource Executive magazine.
- The Leadership Training for Supervisors product line was named one of the top 10 products of the year by Human Resource Executive magazine.
Ken and Margie Blanchard
- Margie Blanchard received the YWCA’s 2008 TWIN (Tribute to Women and Industry) Award
- Ken Blanchard given Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree, in 2006, from Concordia University, Irvine, California.
- In 2005 Amazon.com honored Ken Blanchard as one of their top 25 bestselling authors of all time.
- Margie Blanchard was chosen Speaker of the Year by New Woman magazine and American Express.

- Ken Blanchard received the National Speakers Association’s highest honor, the Council of Peers Award of Excellence.
- Ken and Margie Blanchard were co-recipients of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Cornell University.
- Ken Blanchard was inducted into the Human Resource Development Hall of Fame and he received the Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International.
- The American Society of Training and Development awarded Ken Blanchard the Distinguished Contribution to Human Resource Development Award.
- Ken Blanchard was recognized as one of the Top 50 Living Gurus by the management consulting firm, Accenture.

- Ken Blanchard received the Thought Leadership Award from ISA, the Association of Learning Providers.

