Kristine Pettoni Courageous Leadership Award
This award was created in 2020 to honor the legacy and life of Kristine Pettoni from our NextUp Atlanta Region. Kristine embodied a courageous leader in everything she did and represented from workplace to home. Kristine always found time to mentor, lead, use her voice, include others, and leave this world in a better place as she fought her battle with cancer. To learn more about Kristine’s life and legacy, click here.
Criteria:
Award consideration is based on someone who has demonstrated resiliency, reveals vulnerability, confronts reality head-on, seeks feedback and listens, gives credit to others, and establishes higher standards for their team.
2023 Winner

Cherish Kelley, Category Manager, Mars, Incorporated
Programming Officer for NextUp Nashville
Previous Winners
2022 Recipient
Dianne Galang, NextUp Anywhere
2021 Recipient
Rachel Doll, NextUp Toronto
