Umbreen David, Managing Director of Hoama Group Ltd in Staplehurst, Kent has joined an elite group of global business
leaders as a Silver Stevie® Winner for Best Female Entrepreneur in the 2025 Stevie® Awards for Women in Business. Representing the UK’s social care sector, her success shines a spotlight on compassion, innovation, and leadership that puts people first.
The Stevie® Award, regarded as one of the world’s most coveted business honours, has been conferred since 2002 to organisations and individuals in more than 60 countries. Each year, over 1,000 respected executives, entrepreneurs, innovators, and business educators participate in the judging process, making the accolade a true mark of global excellence.
The judges’ recognised Umbreen as a winner due to the significant and sustainable growth of her company with a 45% increase in turnover and performance results that have strengthened the company’s ability to reinvest in people, quality, and innovation across its services including the development of Meadowview a 70-bed therapeutic care home.
Umbreen leads the Hoama Group, the parent company of Iden Manor Nursing Home and the forthcoming Meadow View specialist care development. Her leadership philosophy, “I lift as I climb,” has become the cultural framework underpinning the group’s growth and success.
Combining lived insight with operational excellence, Umbreen has built a values-led business that prioritises empathy as a management strategy, workforce wellbeing and service quality across all levels. Her approach has strengthened team engagement, improved care outcomes and inspired new standards of leadership within the UK’s social care sector.
“I’m deeply honoured to receive this recognition among so many inspiring women from across the world,” said Umbreen. “The Stevie Awards celebrate excellence, but they also celebrate purpose, and for me, that purpose has always been people. It really is an honour to win and be recognised for my commitment to mentoring entrepreneurs, advocating for disabled leadership, and redesigning what care can be.”
Hoama Group’s nomination stood out among global entries for its focus on creating high-quality, inclusive care environments, investing in staff development and building community connections creating an environment where everyone feels valued, empowered and supported.
Umbreen’s work reflects a rare combination of strategic business thinking and human-centred leadership, making her a powerful ambassador for the social care sector in a global business context. “It’s easy to think care is a local business, but the principles that underpin great care; trust, leadership, empathy and innovation, are universal,” Umbreen added. “To be recognised for those values on a global stage is incredibly meaningful.”
Winners were selected from thousands of nominations received from organisations of all sizes and sectors in more than 60 nations.
Umbreen David is an award-winning entrepreneur, published author. She is a disability leadership advocate and social care leader working at the intersection of inclusive business, care, and lived experience. www.umbreendavid.com / www.linkedin.com/in/umbreendavid/
Hoama Group Ltd is a Kent-based care organisation that owns and operates Iden Manor Nursing Home, providing residential, dementia, and nursing care in a historic Victorian setting, and is currently developing Meadow View, a state-of-the-art specialist home designed to support profoundly deaf residents, individuals with complex dementia, and those with sensory or nursing needs.
Umbreen David, Managing Director, Hoama Group Ltd.