Businesses based in the UK Midlands and supported by coach Anu Khanna have enjoyed considerable success at the BizX Awards 2026, with two client companies claiming category wins and a further 11 being recognised as finalists.
The winning businesses were ACT, whose Managing Director John Courtenay accepted the Best Import-Export Company of the Year award, and The Buddy Bag Foundation, led by Karen Williams, which was named Not-for-profit Business of the Year. Anu Khanna has worked closely with both organisations over a number of years as their coach.
The success was not confined to client businesses. Principal Coach Anu Khanna and fellow coach Harneet Kaur were also honoured at the ceremony, underscoring the measurable connection between the coaching these businesses receive and the results they go on to achieve.
Three awards went to Anu Khanna on the night: Best Client Results 2026, Executive Partner of the Year 2026, and the ActionHERO Award, each recognising her ongoing commitment to delivering growth and tangible performance improvements across her client portfolio. Harneet Kaur was presented with the Growth Partner of the Year 2026 award, further evidencing the role that structured, purposeful coaching plays in producing lasting business outcomes.
Designed to celebrate the very best in business growth, leadership and operational excellence, the BizX Awards bring together leading figures from the entrepreneurial and professional business community across the UK. The breadth of recognition achieved this year points not to a collection of isolated successes, but to a replicable model in which structured coaching consistently enables businesses to perform at a higher level.
Sustained coaching challenges business owners to set aside reactive instincts and replace them with clarity and direction. As a result, decisions are made with greater confidence, priorities are more clearly defined, and the ability to follow through on plans improves markedly. Owners who once felt pulled in every direction find themselves leading their businesses with genuine purpose.
The coaching relationship Anu Khanna builds with her clients brings a discipline and accountability that permeates how the business is run. It tightens decision-making processes and closes the gap between strategy and implementation, ensuring that what is planned is also what gets done.
For the businesses she supports, the practical outcomes of this approach have included more rigorous sales processes, teams that take greater ownership of their responsibilities, and systems that are clear enough to allow the business to operate without the owner at the centre of every decision. The result is a more stable, controlled and ultimately more scalable business.
The pattern emerging from this year’s awards is a reflection of something that repeats itself consistently across Anu’s client base: that when structured coaching is applied with discipline and sustained over time, the results follow.
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