Outstanding Contribution to Quality Management Practice winner 2025

Meet the International Quality Awards Outstanding Contribution to Quality Management Practice winner

This category celebrates individuals or organisations that have made a significant and lasting contribution to the quality management discipline with clear consequential benefit to society, in any one or more of the following domains: academic thinking, education, policy and practice.

Estelle Clark

Estelle has established herself as the one of the UK’s most respected quality professionals during a career which spanned the industrial, service and regulatory sectors, winning numerous quality and excellence awards for the organisations she worked for along the way, as well as personal awards from the EOQ - European Quality Leader (2004), and Women in The City Lifetime Achievement Award by Coutts Bank (2009).

Throughout this career Estelle has proactively supported the policy and civil society institutions that drive the business excellence agenda from the British Quality Foundation and Deming Society to her role as a trustee of the Engineering Council, and from the European Foundation for Quality Management to a role on the United Kingdom Accreditation Service policy committee.