Elite storytelling that fuels award success
• Lead the Adam Smith Awards with record-breaking participation
• Create a 24-hour interview-to-submission pipeline
• Free internal marketing talent to focus on strategic wins
• Drove a 300% increase in award wins year over year (2025), including 19 wins and multiple highly commended recognitions
• Delivered 46 polished submissions in only 6 weeks (2025)
• Captured 11% of all global entries with 44 submissions (2024)
• Outperformed all competitors with 12 winning submissions (2024)
One of the world’s largest financial institutions, this Elite client delivers complex solutions to corporations, governments, and organizations worldwide. This client’s achievements deserve the spotlight—and the Adam Smith Awards is the stage.
The hidden workload behind Adam Smith Award nominations
A global bank faced bottlenecks with its Adam Smith Awards submission process. Its marketing team needed to manage the entire workflow—identifying nominees, conducting interviews, writing submissions, and formatting entries—within a tight six-week timeline. This left no time for strategic storytelling or the ability to scale submissions to fully showcase nominees’ achievements.
From interview to polished submission in just 24 hours
Elite reimagined the submission process with an approach tailored for the Adam Smith Awards. We conducted 30-minute interviews with nominees, structured around each award’s criteria. Our writers and editors transformed each conversation into compelling stories within 24 hours, while our project managers coordinated the workflow to ensure maximum efficiency and quality control.
This streamlined system enabled the client to scale submissions and ultimately drive a 300% increase in award wins year over year—with 19 winners and multiple highly commended entries.
Elite maximized the institution’s presence at the Adam Smith Awards by managing 46 submissions in 2025, enabling the bank to secure more winning entries than any competitor while preserving internal resources.
Through a tightly coordinated workflow, Elite delivered a polished submission within 24 hours of each interview, transforming the awards program from an administrative burden into a powerful recognition tool.
Elite’s financial writers crafted compelling submissions that balanced technical accuracy with engaging storytelling, highlighting innovations and measurable outcomes that the award judges value most.
By delivering submission-ready content, Elite eliminated hours of reformatting and freed up internal marketing teams to focus on strategic positioning instead of administrative tasks.
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