This award began as the Corporate Recognition Award in 2003 and officially was re-named the Lou Takacs Award by the CEED Board. Here is a list of the award recipients.
| Award Year | Award Winner | Company |
| 2019 | Jonathan Gordon | The Lubrizol Corporation |
| 2018 | Reginald McGregor | Rolls-Royce Corporation |
| 2017 | Courtney Mogavero | |
| 2016 | Michelle Isenberg | Ameren |
| 2014 | Kimberly Demko | GE Aviation |
| 2013 | Gary Pennell | Nucor-Yamato Steel |
| 2012 | Dan Parker | Trane |
| 2011 | Laura Chessa | Johnson&Johnson/ McNeil Consumer Care |
| 2010 | Candee J. Chambers | American Electric Power |
| 2009 | Not Presented | |
| 2008 | Frank Meledandri | Curtiss-Wright Corporation |
| 2007 | Dick Johnson | Gulfstream Aerospace |
| 2007 | Patrick Skelly | IBM |
| 2006 | Dan France | Messer Construction |
| 2006 | George Whitted, Jr. | Northrup Grumman Newport News |
| 2005 | Not Presented | |
| 2004 | Hugh Wyles | DuPont |
| 2004 | Wayne Fontaine | DuPont |
| 2003 | Steve Bender | Kimbery-Clark Corporation |
| 2003 | Mark Rudo | U.S. Airways |