Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures Summit, CEO Summit, and Awards Celebration

Join us for this highly anticipated corporate culture event on Tuesday, March 25, 2025

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: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre – North Building (255 Front St. W.), 100-level.

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.



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 Cultures 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.



Celebration Event

Following the summits will be an incredible celebration of our 2024 winners. Join us as we honour the winning organizations, CEOs, and CPCOs with heartfelt speeches, videos, entertainment, and a chance to celebrate together.

Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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


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.

Michael Anhorn
Michael Anhorn
CEO
Canadian Mental Health Association, Toronto Branch
Lyn Currie
Managing Director, Executive Search
Waterstone Human Capital
Jennie Coleman
Jennie Coleman
President
Equifruit
Mike Kessel
Mike Kessel
CEO and President
Cleveland Clinic Canada
Rob Mionis
Rob Mionis
President and CEO
Celestica
Marty Parker
Marty Parker
President and CEO
Waterstone Human Capital
Victor Tam
Victor Tam
CEO and Co-Founder
Monos
Cathy Thorpe
Cathy Thorpe
President and CEO
Nurse Next Door

Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures Summit

The Corporate Cultures 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.

Satri Alpine
Chief People Officer
Oppy
Andrew Bulmer
Andrew Bulmer
President
Active Canada & Involved Media North America
Lyn Currie
Managing Director
Waterstone Human Capital
Cerys Cook
Cerys Cook
Chief People Officer
Swift Medical Inc.
Michele James
Michele James
Executive Vice President
People and Transformation, Scarborough Health Network
Rashid Wasti
Rashid Wasti
Executive Vice President and Chief Talent Officer
Weston Group of Companies
Tracy Young-McLean
Tracy Young-McLean
Vice President/CHRO
Rise Air
Agata Zasada
Agata Zasada
Senior Vice President, People & Culture
ZayZoon

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

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.