Louise van Rhyn has won the Feather Award in the category of Entrepreneurial woman and have graciously accepted the award on behalf of all the remarkable women at Symphonia at a gala event on the 26th of March 2009.The Feather Awards recognises ordinary women (across different categories) for the difference that they are making and their extraordinary contribution to their families, communities and country, despite the many pressures they face

Louise van Rhyn has won the HR Leadership Award at the World HRD Congress in 2009. Louise has been awarded the HR Leadership Award for her leadership and contribution to the field of HR. Micheal McDonald, Global Chairman of the HRD World congress described the position that Louise occupy in the fraternity as strategic and iconic. He also mentioned that Louise is a thinker, a doer and a role model and believer in change.