LOS ANGELES, Calif. (April 26, 2025) – Invitation to Succeed, a premier force in high-performance coaching, leadership development, and communication mastery, proudly announces its recognition as a 2025 Bronze Stevie Award Winner for Entrepreneur of the Year in Business and Professional Services.

Founded by award-winning coach, speaker, and leadership strategist Audrey Wang, Invitation to Succeed is redefining what it means to lead, perform, and communicate in today’s fast-paced, dynamic world. Blending the proven methodologies of CliftonStrengths®, Everything DiSC®, and certified High Performance Coaching, the company delivers transformational experiences that empower individuals, teams, and organizations to rise above limitations, sharpen their leadership, and achieve lasting success with clarity, courage, and confidence.

"This award is more than an honor, it’s a powerful affirmation of the impact we are making every single day," said Audrey Wang, Founder and CEO of Invitation to Succeed. "At Invitation to Succeed, leadership is not about titles or hierarchy - it’s about unleashing potential, embracing bold growth, and creating lasting influence. This recognition fuels our mission to help individuals and organizations unlock their next level of excellence through resilience, strategic strengths, and unstoppable momentum."

The Stevie Awards are among the world’s most prestigious and competitive business honors, receiving over 12,000 nominations annually from organizations across industries and across 45 countries in recognizing outstanding achievements across innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, and service excellence. Each year, the Stevie Awards celebrate organizations and leaders who are not only setting new standards of excellence but actively shaping industries and driving global impact. 

More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Startup of the Year, Executive of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Thought Leader of the Year, and App of the Year, among others.  Invitation To Succeed was nominated in the Best Entrepreneur category for Business and Professional Services. 

"Invitation to Succeed stands at the forefront of a new era of leadership development - one where high performance is sustainable, communication is transformational, and strengths are leveraged strategically to create extraordinary results," Wang added. "We are deeply committed to equipping today’s leaders, teams, and organizations with the mindset, skillset, and strategies necessary to thrive and lead in an ever-evolving world."

Invitation To Succeed Founder Audrey Wang Honored in Dubai with Forttuna Global Excellence Award for Redefining Business & Life Coaching

International recognition celebrates a bold approach to leadership, sustainable performance, and transformational human growth.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA | DECEMBER 5, 2025 - Invitation To Succeed announced today that Founder and CEO Audrey Wang has been recognized with the Forttuna Global Excellence Award – Mentor of the Year in Business & Leadership Coaching, presented during the global awards celebration in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The award recognizes leaders whose work is creating measurable influence, elevating standards within their industry, and producing meaningful transformation at a global level.

For Wang, the recognition represents more than professional achievement.

It reflects a mission years in the making: challenging the belief that success must come through exhaustion, overextension, or constant sacrifice.

Through Invitation To Succeed, Wang has built a coaching and leadership development company dedicated to helping executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, and teams strengthen how they think, lead, communicate, and perform - without compromising sustainability, health, or human connection.

Her work integrates performance psychology, behavioral communication, strengths-based development, and practical execution into a leadership experience designed to create change that lasts.

At the center of her philosophy is a simple but powerful belief:

People do not rise because they push harder. They rise because they gain greater clarity, communicate more effectively, and build systems that make excellence sustainable.

“Receiving this award is incredibly meaningful - not because of the recognition itself, but because of what it represents,” said Audrey Wang, Founder and CEO of Invitation To Succeed.

“For years, I have watched talented people achieve incredible things while quietly paying for it with burnout, misalignment, and unnecessary pressure.

Invitation To Succeed was built on a different idea, that high performance and humanity are not opposing forces.

My mission has never been to help people simply do more.

It has been to help people become stronger leaders, communicate with greater intention, create meaningful results, and build success they can actually sustain.”

Before founding Invitation To Succeed, Wang spent more than fifteen years operating inside high-performance environments supporting influential leaders and complex organizations. Those experiences revealed a recurring pattern:

Technical expertise alone does not create exceptional leaders.

Self-awareness. Communication. Courage. Execution. Sustainable habits.

Those are the multipliers.

Today, Invitation To Succeed delivers coaching, leadership development, assessments, workshops, and transformational experiences designed to help individuals and organizations unlock those capabilities intentionally.

This international recognition marks a defining milestone - not an endpoint, but an expansion of the company’s vision to elevate how success is built.

Because growth should not cost people themselves.

And leadership should leave people stronger than it found them.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (April 24, 2025) – Invitation To Succeed  has been honored with a 2024 Global Recognition Award  in "Inclusion & Empowerment" for its exceptional contributions to professional development and mentoring, establishing itself as a leader in empowering underrepresented individuals through comprehensive programming. The organization specifically targets women and BIPOC professionals, creating inclusive spaces where marginalized voices thrive beyond conventional limitations while establishing new benchmarks for coaching excellence. Their innovative approach to leadership development strategically integrates professional growth with personal well-being, setting new standards across the coaching and mentoring sectors while consistently garnering perfect assessment scores for implementation strategies.

The award acknowledges Invitation To Succeed's methodology, which effectively combines practical advancement with psychological empowerment, enabling clients to pursue ambitious goals despite systemic barriers. Strategic collaboration between the organizations demonstrates meaningful social impact through targeted educational initiatives that deliver comprehensive resources to underserved communities. Recent 2024 forecasts indicate that organizations implementing similar inclusive development models may experience up to 35% higher retention rates among underrepresented professionals, positioning Invitation To Succeed as a notable innovator in an increasingly competitive professional development landscape.

Leadership and Program Innovation

Invitation To Succeed's professional development strategies emphasize ethical practices while addressing critical representation gaps through targeted skill enhancement programs that balance personal growth objectives with tangible career advancement opportunities. Their framework successfully scales across international markets while maintaining consistently high achievement metrics and individualized attention to participant needs, resulting in perfect evaluation scores through their comprehensive approach to professional development. Audrey Wang, leader of Invitation To Succeed, states that their mission has always been to create pathways for advancement that acknowledge and overcome systemic challenges facing underrepresented professionals.

The organization's structured methodology produces measurable improvements in participant achievement across various professional sectors, particularly through technology integration and personalized learning approaches that adapt to diverse needs. Educational initiatives within the organization demonstrate significant innovation through responsive curriculum design and outcome-focused instruction methods that have received maximum ratings for effectiveness, particularly regarding student support systems and learning outcomes. Industry analysis for 2024 suggests that personalized mentoring programs with technological integration, such as those implemented by Invitation To Succeed, will become essential components of professional development as organizations seek to address representation gaps in leadership positions throughout corporate and nonprofit sectors.

Community Impact and Sustainable Development

Through their partnership with various organizations, Invitation To Succeed has established replicable models for community transformation through education and empowerment that extend beyond individual participants. Their combined efforts deliver measurable outcomes that benefit individuals and communities through carefully designed interventions addressing systemic barriers to advancement. Wang notes that the most significant measure of their success is the ripple effect observed when program participants return to their communities as leaders and mentors, creating sustainable change that extends far beyond individual career advancement.

The organization's teaching methodologies have received maximum ratings for innovation and effectiveness, creating positive changes throughout professional sectors while establishing new benchmarks for industry excellence across multiple domains. These approaches systematically address representation gaps while maintaining exceptional quality standards, demonstrating how professional development can catalyze broader societal change when properly implemented and sustained. The collaborative model developed between Invitation To Succeed and community partners has proven especially effective at creating pathways across socioeconomic boundaries, allowing previously marginalized professionals to access previously unavailable resources.

Recognition and Future Initiatives

A 2024 Global Recognition Award reflects Invitation To Succeed's demonstrated excellence in professional development and systemic change, validating their approach of integrating practical skill development with psychological empowerment necessary for sustained success. Under Wang's leadership, the organization maintains perfect scores across all service initiatives through sustainable practices and measurable outcomes that demonstrate program effectiveness across multiple assessment dimensions. Their continued expansion of opportunities for underrepresented individuals employs proven methodologies and consistent results, enabling meaningful advancement for professionals who become influential leaders in their respective fields.

Alex Sterling of Global Recognition Awards observes "Invitation To Succeed exemplifies the type of organization their awards were designed to recognize through methodical approaches to addressing representation gaps while maintaining exceptional quality standards. The organization continues developing new initiatives focused on emerging professional fields where representation disparities remain particularly pronounced, building upon its successful framework while adapting to changing workforce demands. Program participants consistently report significant career advancement following the completion of Invitation To Succeed's mentoring programs, with many achieving leadership positions previously underrepresented by their demographic groups, thus creating cascading effects throughout their industries."  

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (January 2, 2024) – Invitation to Succeed, a premier coaching and leadership development company, proudly announces that its Founder, Audrey Wang, has been honored with two major recognitions from Business Network International (BNI) in 2024: the Master Networker Award and the 4-Star Networking Ribbon Award.

Widely respected for her passion for helping individuals and organizations rise to their highest potential, Audrey’s latest achievements spotlight her exceptional dedication to building powerful, trust-based networks that drive real-world success.

The Master Networker Award recognizes BNI members who consistently demonstrate excellence in relationship-building, lead generation, and community leadership. The 4-Star Networking Ribbon Award further acknowledges an elite standard of engagement — celebrating professionals who consistently go above and beyond to support their chapter, foster meaningful collaborations, and contribute to the growth of their entire network.

"To me, networking has never been about transactions, it’s always been about transformations," said Audrey Wang. "Winning these awards is an honor, but the real reward has been witnessing the success stories that happen when people are genuinely invested in each other's growth. It's about creating a community where everyone rises together."

Audrey’s approach to networking mirrors the transformational work she delivers through Invitation to Succeed. Drawing from her background as a certified High Performance Coach, Everything DiSC® partner, and CliftonStrengths® facilitator, Audrey empowers professionals, teams, and organizations to unlock their full potential through authentic communication, leadership excellence, and sustainable high performance.

These awards serve as a reflection of Audrey’s larger mission: not just to create success for herself, but to lift others - helping individuals and companies alike find the clarity, energy, and courage to lead boldly and build lasting legacies.

As Audrey continues her journey, she remains committed to making an even greater impact in 2025 and beyond, helping leaders and teams turn connection into opportunity, and opportunity into extraordinary achievement.