{"id":9673,"date":"2015-09-29T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T09:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2024-12-04T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:00:11","slug":"iams-lesley-scoops-lifetime-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/2015\/news\/iams-lesley-scoops-lifetime-award\/","title":{"rendered":"IAM\u2019s Lesley scoops lifetime award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Institute of Advanced Motorists\u2019 (IAM) recently appointed commercial director, Lesley Upham, has won a top automotive award at a well-respected motor industry ceremony at the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 19th Annual <em>bodyshop<\/em> Event and Awards 2015 (BE2015) took place at the Celtic Manor Hotel in Newport; and featured a day of exhibits, seminars and networking concluded by the glittering black-tie awards dinner.<\/p>\n<p>BE2015 is recognised as the most established independent awards programme, recognising the ambassadors of the automotive accident repair industry.<\/p>\n<p>On presenting the Lifetime Achievement award to Lesley, the judging panel stated, \u2018This special award goes to an individual whose name is recognised throughout the industry for all the right reasons.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They have been a major driving force in directing, influencing and shaping the increasing professionalism of the industry for a number of years and have played a key role in raising standards throughout. A new challenge now lies ahead for this individual but in our sector, this person\u2019s effect has been profound.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lesley joined the IAM, the UK\u2019s biggest independent road safety charity in July. She previously held roles with Thatcham Research.<\/p>\n<p>Lesley is responsible for the IAM\u2019s commercial subsidiaries; IAM Drive &amp; Survive, Professional Driver Services (PDS) and IAM Driver Retraining Academy (DRA).<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Sillars, IAM chief executive officer added, \u2018We&#8217;d like to congratulate Lesley on the award, which is thoroughly deserved and marks many years of dedicated service to the industry.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Advanced Motorists\u2019 (IAM) recently appointed commercial director, Lesley Upham, has won a top automotive award at a well-respected motor industry ceremony at the weekend. The 19th Annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1699,66,820,402],"class_list":["post-9673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bodyshop-awards-2015","tag-iam","tag-lesley-upham","tag-thatcham-research"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodyshopmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}