About Waterstone Human Capital
Better leaders. Better cultures. Better results.
Since 2003, Waterstone has been at the centre of how high-performance leaders and cultures get built in North America. What started as a retained executive search and advisory firm has evolved into something larger: a culture intelligence firm. Today, we combine 23 years of executive search, professional recruitment, and leadership and culture advisory experience with the data and best practices of Canada’s and America’s Most Admired Cultures programs — and we bring it all together through Waterstone Culture AI to help our clients find better leaders, build better cultures, and deliver better results.
What Makes Us Different
23 years of experience
Thousands of search and advisory engagements across Canada and the U.S. — at the executive, board, and senior professional levels.
The Most Admired Cultures dataset
As founders of Canada’s and America’s Most Admired Cultures, Most Admired CEO, and Most Admired CPCO programs, we’ve studied what high-performance cultures actually do — for over two decades.
Waterstone Culture AI
Our culture intelligence engine takes the experience and the data and turns them into sharper candidate fit assessment, better leadership team design, and stronger cultures.
Our Impact
Building a high-performance leadership team and culture is integral to the growth and success of any company. Waterstone clients that have committed to recruiting for fit and culture add, to culture and leadership optimization, and to making culture their competitive advantage have:
- more than doubled their revenue;
- quadrupled their EBITA CAGR (from 3% to 13%);
- increased their revenue CAGR (+5%);
- improved their eNPS year over year; and
- strengthened their recruitment and engagement.
Growth Opportunities
At Waterstone, we invest in comprehensive programs and mentorship opportunities to compliment the nurturing and fostering of growth for long-term success, ensuring a fulfilling career journey.
Diverse and Inclusive Environment
We champion diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging as fundamental pillars of our culture. We cultivate an inclusive environment where every voice is valued, ensuring equal opportunities for all.
Our Clients
Our clients are leaders who see culture as their single greatest asset. We work with entrepreneurial-minded, high-growth organizations across a variety of industries. They believe that culture and fit matters and they tend to value innovation and calculated risk taking.
As the founders of Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures, Canada’s Most Admired™ CEO, and the Canada’s Most Admired™ CEO Waterstone is at the forefront of human capital best practices.
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