Recently, Business Leader and Who’s Who Magazines of Tennessee ranked the Top 300 Small Businesses of the South. You can find a listing of winners, as well as podcast radio interviews with many of the winners at www.BusinessLeader.com/Top300smallbusinesses.   About 50 of the winners were from the state of Tennessee.

We wanted to formally congratulate our top 300 winners and invite you to listen to a special one-hour radio show on wsRadio counting down the top ten winners.  You can access an archive of that broadcast Here.  We hope you will enjoy hearing from our winners.

2011 Women Extraordinaire Nominations are now open:

Business Leader is currently accepting nominations for its annual Women Extraordinaire awards in Tennessee.

The Women Extraordinaire Awards honor top women business leaders in Tennessee and will be selected based on the following criteria:

Candidate must be an influential leader within her company or business, with an extraordinary impact on its economic success and forward-thinking strategies; Candidate must be actively involved in the professional organizations and associations related to her industry; Candidate must be active in her community by utilizing her skills and/or time to promote philanthropic organizations or causes; and, Candidate must be a recognized mentor and example to other women in her industry, especially by maintaining a high functioning work-life balance.

Winners will (1) be honored in Nashville and Memphis on October 4th and 6th respectively; (2) be interviewed on wsRadio; and (3) be featured in our next Business Leader magazine issue.

Nominations can be submitted at www.BusinessLeader.com/WEX.

The nomination form takes less than five minutes to complete, and winning gives you a chance to be honored amongst some of the top leaders in Tennessee.