Butterfly Effect Award
The Butterfly Effect Award recognises a business owner whose influence creates measurable positive outcomes for other people, businesses or communities. It celebrates mentorship, education, advocacy and collaboration that continues to create opportunity and progress beyond the entrant's direct work.
Choose this category when: Your strongest story is the opportunities and progress created for others through your mentorship, influence, education or collaboration.
Is this your category?
A quick read on the businesses this title is written for.
Uses their platform, experience or influence to create opportunities for others.
Can demonstrate specific outcomes created through mentorship, education, advocacy or collaboration.
Leads with generosity, integrity and a clear commitment to helping others progress.
Creates effects that continue through the people, businesses or communities they have influenced.
What judges need to see.
The five areas your answers are assessed against.
Foundation
Foundation: The platform, influence and leadership context through which the entrant creates opportunity.
Results
Results: Measurable outcomes achieved by people, businesses or communities through that influence.
Decisions
Decisions: Initiatives, collaborations or actions that created the strongest ripple effects.
Leadership
Leadership: Mentorship, generosity, advocacy and the entrant's ability to elevate others.
Impact
Impact: The reach and durability of the outcomes created and the direction of the entrant's future contribution.
Evidence to start gathering
Start collecting these now so the writing is quick later.
Read the Evidence Pack guideMentoring outcomes with specific results.
Examples of businesses or people progressing through the entrant's support.
Partnership or collaboration outcomes.
Education or advocacy participation and results.
Testimonials describing identifiable change.
Opportunities, introductions or pathways created for others.
Community or industry outcomes linked to the entrant's influence.
Evidence showing how impact continued beyond the original interaction.
Entry details and eligibility
The format, the dates and the conditions that apply to this title.
- Assessment period
- 2024–27.
- Minimum business age
- 12 months.
- Written responses
- 5.
- Evidence Pack
- 5 pages.
1 January 2024 to 28 February 2027
Minimum 12 months in business as at 4 October 2026.
5 written responses, up to 400 words each.
One PDF, up to 5 pages and 10 MB.
Resources
Before you enter
Five short reads that answer almost everything. Each one opens the Entry Guide at the right place.
Evidence Pack guide
What counts as evidence, what does not, and how to lay the PDF out.
Full eligibility
The rules that apply to every title, including trading dates and locations.
How judging works
Who reads your entry, how it is scored and how finalists are chosen.
Build a strong entry
How to answer the five questions with specifics instead of adjectives.
Frequently asked questions
Costs, deadlines, multiple entries and everything else people ask first.
RAYE Awards 2027
Butterfly Effect Award
Entries are written and submitted in the RAYE Awards portal, a separate system to RAYE Haus. Read the criteria, gather your evidence, then head across.