The 2025 Canada’s Most Admired Award Winners
Announcing the 2025 Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures™, Canada’s Most Admired CEO™, and Canada’s Most Admired CPCO™ Winners
TORONTO, November 20, 2025 – Fifty-eight top organizations and eleven high-performance leaders from across Canada have been named the 2025 winners of the Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures™, Canada’s Most Admired CEO™, and Canada’s Most Admired Chief People and Culture Officer™ (CPCO) Awards.
Founded by Waterstone Human Capital, Canada’s leading cultural talent advisory firm, the Canada’s Most Admired™ Awards program is where the very best practices in high-performance culture and leadership are celebrated.
“These awards recognize the very best in high performance corporate culture—those leaders and organizations that have built and nurtured performance-driven cultures and that are at the forefront of culture best practices,” says Marty Parker, President and CEO of Waterstone Human Capital and Chair of the Canada’s Most Admired™ program. “This year’s winners actively craft high-performance cultures and serve as an inspiration for others who want to do the same.”
Canada’s Most Admired™ CEOs 2025
- Enterprise: John Bianchini, Chair and CEO, Hatch (Mississauga, ON)
- Mid-Market: Pamela Lee, President and CEO, Mr. Lube + Tires (Richmond, BC)
- Growth: Adrian Rocca, CEO and Founder, Fitzrovia (Toronto, ON)
- Emerging: Robert Varga, President and CEO, Insurance Insight Inc. (Mississauga, ON)
- Non-Profit and Broader Public Sector: Dr. Ronald Cohn, CEO, The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, ON)
- Social Purpose Innovator: Jay-Ann Gilfoy, President and CEO, Meridian Credit Union (Toronto, ON)
Canada’s Most Admired™ CPCOs of 2025
- Emerging: Melanie Scheepers, SVP, People & Culture, Coconut Software (Saskatoon, SK)
- Growth: Jamie Murphy, ED, People & Culture, Zulu Alpha Kilo Inc. (Toronto, ON)
- Mid-Market: Karen Scott, SVP People & Culture, Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company (Toronto, ON)
- Enterprise: Mark L. Razzolini, SVP & Chief People Officer, Alberta Blue Cross (Edmonton, AB)
- Non-Profit and Broader Public Sector: Jordan Crouch, Chief People Officer, DASCH (Winnipeg, MB)
Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures of 2025 – Emerging
- Agnostic (Toronto, ON)
- AutoVerify (London, ON)
- Calvert Home Mortgage Investment Corporation (Calgary, AB)
- Canadian Business Growth Fund (Toronto, ON)
- Conversion (Vancouver, BC)
- GAM Tech (Calgary, AB)
- Kidcrew Medical (Toronto, ON)
- Level5 Strategy (Toronto, ON)
- Oak Bay Marine Group (Victoria, BC)
- POD Marketing (Calgary, AB)
- Quinn+Partners (Toronto, ON)
Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures of 2025– Enterprise
- Alberta Blue Cross (Edmonton, AB)
- Cadillac Fairview Corporation (Toronto, ON)
- Definity (Waterloo, ON)
- GreenShield (Toronto, ON)
- METRO Inc. (Toronto, ON)
- Neighbourly Pharmacy Inc (Toronto, ON)
- OMERS (Toronto, ON)
- Pizza Pizza Limited (Etobicoke, ON)
- Reliance Home Comfort (North York, ON)
- Schneider Electric (Mississauga, ON)
- The Oppenheimer Group (Oppy) (Coquitlam, BC)
Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures of 2025 – Growth
- 7shifts Inc. (Saskatoon, SK)
- Active Media Services (AMS) (Thornhill, ON)
- Carpedia International Corp. (Toronto, ON)
- CR Wall (Cambridge, ON)
- Dejero Labs Inc. (Waterloo, ON)
- Edgewood Health Network Inc. (Toronto, ON)
- HME Medical Distribution Ltd. (Richmond, BC)
- Isaac Operations (Toronto, ON)
- Litco Law (Calgary, AB)
- Optimus SBR (Toronto, ON)
Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures of 2025 – Mid-Market
- BCG (Toronto, ON)
- Cactus Restaurants Ltd. (Vancouver, BC)
- Clio (Toronto, ON)
- CMiC (Toronto, ON)
- Fengate Asset Management (Oakville, ON)
- Ipsos Canada (Toronto, ON)
- Killam Apartment REIT (Halifax, NS)
- Klick Health (Toronto, ON)
- Microserve (Burnaby, BC)
- Miovision (Kitchener, ON)
- Mr. Lube Canada (Richmond, BC)
- Nicola Wealth (Vancouver, BC)
- Vena Solutions (Toronto, ON)
- Vendasta (Saskatoon, SK)
Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures of 2025 – Non-Profit and Broader Public Sector
- Arthritis Society Canada (Toronto, ON)
- CAA Atlantic (Saint John, NB)
- Canadian Cancer Society (Toronto, ON)
- CNIB and DBCS (Toronto, ON)
- Fairview Parkwood Craigwiel Communities (Cambridge, ON)
- Michael Garron Hospital/Toronto East Health Network (Toronto, ON)
- Opportunities NB (ONB) (Fredericton, NB)
- Ronald McDonald House BC and Yukon (Vancouver, BC)
- Royal Roads University (Victoria, BC)
- Second Harvest Canada (Etobicoke, ON)
- Southlake Health (Newmarket, ON)
- YMCA of Greater Toronto (Toronto, ON)
The Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures™, Canada’s Most Admired CEO™, and Canada’s Most Admired CPCO™ awards will be presented at an awards celebration in Toronto on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Tickets will be available at canadasmostadmired.com in December.