Announcing the 2025 Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures™, Canada's Most Admired CEO™, and Canada's Most Admired CPCO™ Winners

TORONTO, Nov. 20, 2025 /CNW/ - Fifty-eight top organizations and 11 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

CEO winners

Category	Name and Title	Company and Location
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. (Oakville, 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

CPCO winners

Category	Name and Title	Company and location
Emerging	Melanie Scheepers, SVP, People & Culture	Coconut Software (Saskatoon, SK)
Growth	Jamie Murphy, ED, People & Culture	Zulu Alpha Kilo Inc. (Toronto, O
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	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 + Tires (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)

"On behalf of Waterstone Human Capital and our partners, congratulations to the 2025 award winners," says Parker. "We look forward to celebrating their success and the impact culture is having on their growth and performance."

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.

About Waterstone Human Capital
Since 2003, we've been providing retained executive search services, professional recruitment services, and leadership and culture advisory services like culture measurement, leadership assessment and leadership, team and culture development to organizations across Canada and the U.S. Over that time, we've been champions and enablers of high-performance leadership and cultures. We built a thriving learning community and ecosystem around it. We share its best practices at summits, in books, and through programs like the Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, CEOs, and Chief People and Culture Officer (CPCO) Awards. And most important of all, we see its impact in our clients' cultures and results every day.

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