Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures Summit, CEO Summit and Awards Celebration
Event Theme: Purpose in Action – Crafting a Culture that Drives Performance, Retention, and Engagement.
Learn from, and celebrate, the top corporate cultures, and the most admired CEOs and Chief People and Culture Officers (CPCOs) that Canada has to offer.
Date: Thursday April 18, 2024
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Two Summits, One celebration
This is a multi-faceted day of learning, networking and celebration featuring engaging keynote speakers, informative breakout sessions, an interactive panel discussion with our CEO award winners, and more. The day wraps up with a celebration of all the award winners.
Canada’s Most Admired™ CEO Summit
Network with your peers and learn cuting-edge leadership and culture-building secrets from Canada’s Most Admired™ CEOs at this exclusive CEO-only, closed-door event. This is your chance, you won’t want to miss this.
Corporate Culture Summit
Send your team to this multi-stream conference to learn from the best, as leaders in talent management, marketing, human resources, and culture share in-depth strategies that made them one of Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures.
Canada’s Most Admired™ Celebration Event
Following the summits will be an incredible celebration of our 2023 winners. Join us as we honour the winning organizations, CEOs and CPCOs with heartfelt speeches, videos, entertainment, and a chance to celebrate together.
Date: April 18, 2024
Time: CEO Summit and Corporate Cultures Summit (11:30 am – 4:30 pm), Networking Cocktail Reception (4:30 pm – 5:30 pm) and Awards Celebration (5:30 pm – 9:00 pm)
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre – North Building (255 Front St. W.), 100-level.
Dress Code: Summits – Business/Business Casual | Awards Celebration – Business/Business Casual/Semi-Formal
Keynote Presentation – Success, Self-Confidence, and Performance.
Dr. Ivan Joseph
An award-winning performance coach, prominent educator, and accomplished leader, Dr. Ivan has spent his career leading cultural transformation and building cohesive teams.
His research has focused on understanding how self-confidence drives performance and now, as an internationally renowned speaker, he shares this knowledge to help leaders cultivate inclusive, high-performing workplace cultures.
Canada’s Most Admired™ CEO Summit
The Canada’s Most Admired CEO™ Summit is a unique opportunity to join other CEOs across Canada for an event focused on culture.
It features speeches, Q&As, and in-depth panel discussions with over 100 CEOs from a wide variety of highly successful organizations across Canada, including Canada’s Most Admired™ CEOs. This event is designed to help leaders address some of today’s top business challenges and operationalize culture to drive growth and performance.
Who Should Attend?
CEOs of culture-focused organizations from across Canada
Featured Speakers
Watch this page for updates as speakers are confirmed.
Managing Director, Executive Search
Waterstone Human Capital
CEO & Plan Manager
CAAT Pension Plan
President and CEO
Purolator
President and CEO
IWK Foundation
CEO and Co-founder
DealMaker
Founder and CEO
MacKay CEO Forums
CEO and Co-founder
Miller Titerle Law Corporation
President and CEO
Waterstone Human Capital
CEO
Membertou Development Corporation
President and CEO
ATB Financial
Co-founder and CEO (Retired)
Nature’s Path Foods
MacKay Forum Chair and Strategic Advisor
MacKay CEO Forums
Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Culture Summit
The Corporate Culture Summit is a multi-stream learning event focused on leveraging the competitive advantage of your corporate culture.
It features breakouts, interactive Q&As and lively panel discussions with leaders in talent management, marketing, human resources and culture. Many are winners of the Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures™ awards program, but this event is open to everyone with an interest in corporate culture.
You’ll need more than one representative to capture all of the learning in this multi breakout event!
Who Should Attend?
Anyone with an interest in corporate culture.
Featured Speakers
Watch this page for updates as speakers are confirmed.
President & CEO
Kudos®
President & CEO
NorQuest College
Senior Vice President and Chief Talent Officer
goeasy Ltd.
Managing Director
Waterstone Human Capital
Vice President of Talent, Learning and Safety
Purolator
Chief Human Resources Officer
CAAT Pension Plan
Chief People Officer
BlueCat
VP, People & Culture
East Coast Credit Union
President
Massilly North America Inc.
Managing Director
Waterstone Culture Institute
Executive Vice President Human Resources
High Liner Foods
Executive Vice President, People, Communications and Technology
Cadillac Fairview Corporation
VP, People and Culture
North Strategic, Notch Video and MSL
Group
Chief People, Communications and Strategy Officer
Ottawa Community Housing
Senior Director, Culture & Employee Experience
SE Health
Executive Vice President
and Chief Human Resources Officer
Loblaw Companies Limited
Chief People Officer
Dejero Labs Inc.
Chief Operating Officer
SAP Labs Canada
Annual Canada’s Most Admired™ Awards Celebration
Join us as we honour the winning organizations, CEOs and CPCOs with heartfelt speeches, videos, entertainment, and a chance to celebrate together.
Winners of the Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures™, Canada’s Most Admired CEO™ and the Canada’s Most Admired™ CPCOs are announced in November each year, and are celebrated at the annual Canada’s Most Admired™ Awards Celebration early the following year. This is an event of celebration with 650+ of Canada’s preeminent executives and leaders.
Who Should Attend?
Winning organizations, CEOs and CPCOs typically invite their teams, peers, friends and families to join them for this exciting and entertaining event.
Awards Celebration EMCEE
Darrin Rose
We are pleased to have award-winning comedian and media personality as our emcee for the evening.
One of Canada’s most popular comedians, you will know him as host of The Match Game and as Bill the bartender on the sitcom Mr.D in addition to being a stand-up comedian.