APT is a 2009 recipient of a Stevie Award for "Best Overall Company of the Year in a Service Business with Up to 100 Employees" category in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. APT CEO Dr. Kathleen Kappy Lundquist was also selected as a 2009 finalist in the "Best Entrepreneur in a Service Business with Up to 100 Employees" category. The 2009 Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an international competition recognizing the accomplishments of outstanding women executives, business owners, and the organizations they run. The awards are produced by the creators of the prestigious American Business AwardsSM.
Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.
Dr. Kathleen Kappy Lundquist, CEO, was selected the 2009 Human Resources Vendor of the Year by the Southern Connecticut chapter
of the Society for Human Resource Management (SOCT SHRM) in their annual "HR People of the Year" awards competition.
"The HR People of the Year Awards is a celebration of HR excellence and helps recognize the significant role our profession plays in business today", said Margaret Judge, president of SOCT SHRM.
SOCT SHRM serves the needs of HR professionals and advances the interests of the HR profession in the local area through various educational, networking and outreach programs. It is one of 575 affiliated chapters in SHRM, the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management with more than 225,000 members in over 125 countries. For more information on the chapter visit www.soctshrm.org.
APT is a 2008 recipient of DiversityBusiness.com's Top 500 Women-owned Businesses in the U.S. award,
their Top 100 Women-owned Businesses in Connecticut award, and their Top 50 Diversity-owned Businesses
in Connecticut award. These awards annually honor each state's top women- and diversity-owned businesses
in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services.
APT's President, Kathleen K. Lundquist, Ph.D. and Vice President, John C. Scott, Ph.D. were finalists in the 2002 and 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® (EOY) international award competition.
Each year Ernst & Young, through its Entrepreneur of the Year awards, seeks to recognize great business achievements around the world. Such accomplishments are made possible by the entrepreneurial spirit — the incredible depth and character that entrepreneurs possess as they develop new technologies, create faster ways to distribute goods and services, and improve the quality of life for people around them.
More information on the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards can be found at ey.com.
Since 2002, APT has been certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).
WBENC's goal is to foster diversity in the world of commerce. Its programs and policies are designed to expand opportunities and eliminate barriers in today's marketplace for
women business owners.
More information about WBENC can be found at wbenc.org.
APT's president, Dr. Kathleen K. Lundquist is a recipient of the
National Association of Women Business Owners-CT (NAWBO-CT)
Woman Business Owner of the Year Award.
NAWBO-CT is dedicated to advancing, educating, mentoring, and empowering women business
owners. Its guiding principles are to: strengthen the wealth creating capacity of its members;
build strategic alliances, coalitions, and affiliations; transform public policy, influence
opinion makers; effect changes in business culture; and, to provide a positive framework of
friendship, support, and professionalism. More information on NAWBO can be found at NAWBO.org.
APT is a 2009 recipient of a Connecticut Quality Improvement Award (CQIA) Silver Innovation Prize for SELectrics,
our new, multi-media employee selection test designed specifically to benefit organizations within the electric
utility sector. The CQIA is a state-level quality award that uses the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality for
Performance Excellence criteria. In 2002, the CQIA Innovation Prize was awarded to APT for their multi-source
feedback tool, 360Metrics. In 2003, it was awarded to APT for its SelectionMetrics online selection tool and
its JobMetrics online job analysis tool.
For more information on CQIA visit ctqualityaward.org.
APT's 360Metrics, is a recipient of Human Resource Executive magazine's
"Ten Best HR Products" award.
More information on this awards program can be found at hreonline.com.