JA BEL Awards

Junior Achievement Business & Educator Leadership Awards - BEL Awards

When: Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Where: Grand Wayne Center

Time: 5:45 PM ET

To recognize leadership and dedication to entrepreneurship, each year Junior Achievement's BEL (Business, Education, and Leadership) Awards event honors business leaders. These men and women are creating jobs, encouraging employee growth and shaping the successful companies that are essential to a community's economy. While fulfilling the personal and professional commitments which ensure family, business and community success, they are also sharing their experience with the next generation, and they are giving time and financial resources to their communities.

2024 Greater Fort Wayne Business Hall of Fame Awardees:

Daryle & Brenda Doden, Ambassador Enterprises
Chuck Surack, Surack Enterprises

2024 Ove Jorgensen Spirit of Leadership Recipients:

Tom & Cindy Henry (posthumously)

Past Hall Of Fame Inductees

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