Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures Summit, CEO Summit, and Awards Celebration
Thank you for attending the most highly anticipated corporate culture event of the year. Your presence made it truly special!
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
Inspirational Keynote
The Art and Science of Peak Performance for Leaders with Dr. Greg Wells
Physiologist | 5X Best Selling Author | Peak Performance Expert
A scientist, human physiologist, and best-selling author who translates complex science into practical strategies for health and peak performance.
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.
CEO
Canadian Mental Health Association, Toronto Branch
Managing Director, Executive Search
Waterstone Human Capital
President
Equifruit
CEO and Plan Manager
CAAT Pension Plan
CEO and President
Cleveland Clinic Canada
Founder and CEO
MacKay CEO Forums
President and CEO
Celestica
Managing Director, Waterstone Leadership and Culture Advisory
President and CEO
Montminy & Co.
President and CEO
Waterstone Human Capital
MacKay Forum Chair and Strategic Advisor, MacKay CEO Forums
CEO and Co-Founder
Monos
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.
Chief People Officer
The Oppenheimer Group
Chief People & Culture Officer
Security Compass
President
Active Canada & Involved Media North America
Chief People Officer
Swift Medical Inc.
Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer
goeasy Ltd.
Managing Director
Waterstone Human Capital
Chief People & Transformation Officer
Compass Group Canada
Chief People and Culture Officer
Interac Corp.
Vice President, People Success and Transformation
GreenShield
CEO
Kognitive Tech Inc
Executive Vice President
People and Transformation, Scarborough Health Network
Chief Strategy Officer
CAAT Pension Plan
President
Innoflo
Vice President/CHRO
Rise Air
CEO
TLC Solutions
Vice President, Human Resources Operations
Metrolinx
Vice President, Talent
& Culture
Plan International Canada
Chief People Officer
PointClickCare
Executive Vice President and Chief Talent Officer
Weston Group of Companies
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
PointClickCare
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
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.