Entrepreneur Of The Year® Michigan and Northwest Ohio

Honoring the ambitious entrepreneurs building a better world for all.

Applications for the 2025 program are now open.


About Entrepreneur Of The Year

Founded in 1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year has celebrated more than 11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading successful, dynamic businesses in the US, and it has since expanded to nearly 60 countries globally.

This program honors many different types of business leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit. We celebrate original founders who bootstrapped their business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow their company; transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an existing organization to catapult its trajectory; and multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy business model to fortify it for the future.

The Michigan and Northwest Ohio program includes Michigan and Northwest Ohio. Each year, a panel of independent judges selects regional finalists and winners who are recognized during an awards celebration in June. The regional winners compete for national recognition at the Strategic Growth Forum® in November, where National finalists and award winners are announced. The overall National winner represents the US at the World Entrepreneur Of The Year competition.

Visit the Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame to search our directory of past award winners.


2024 Michigan and Northwest Ohio winners

Program information


2024 regional finalists are building the economy of tomorrow

$11b in revenue generated in 2023
Nearly 43% median revenue growth
More than 28k people employed in 2023
Nearly 26% median employee growth
*Over the most recent three-year period

Entrepreneur Of The Year Michigan and Northwest Ohio team

Joe Lenglet
Program director

Laura Trosper
Program director

Danielle Stanek
Program manager

JaMay Edwards
Program coordinator


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