Food Banks Canada is proud to share that Waterstone Human Capital has recognized them for embodying one of Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Cultures of the year. This award celebrates best-in-class Canadian organizations with cultures that have helped them enhance performance.

Food Banks Canada aims to relieve hunger in Canada today and prevent it tomorrow. For its leaders and staff, performance means advancing this mission and achieving organizational goals collaboratively with a happy, healthy, and engaged team.

“We create our culture as a team, and we have an amazing team,” says Kirstin Beardsley, Food Banks Canada’s Chief Executive Officer. “A great culture is built and sustained by great people, with every person bringing their unique selves to contribute something special. Together, we strive to create a workplace where passion for the mission drives performance and where people feel connected to the societal impact they contribute to.”

Canada’s Most Admired™ Corporate Culture awardees are selected by a board of leaders from companies that have been recognized for this distinction in the past. In their decision-making, they consider multiple aspects of organizational culture, including vision and leadership, recruitment and hiring practices, talent development and management, cultural alignment and overall performance.

“These awards recognize the very best in 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.”

“On behalf of Waterstone Human Capital and our partners, congratulations to the 2024 award winners,” says Parker. “We look forward to celebrating their success and the impact culture is having on their growth and performance.”

At Food Banks Canada, we believe that through a unified vision, dedicated leadership, strategic foresight and our values at the heart of everything that we do, we can create a profound and lasting impact on society.

About Food Banks Canada

Food Banks Canada is the leader in addressing food insecurity in Canada.  Our mission is to provide national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network from coast to coast to coast. For over 40 years, food banks have been dedicated to helping Canadians living with food insecurity. Over 5,500 food banks and community organizations come together to serve our most vulnerable neighbours, who – this year – made over 2 million visits to these organizations in one month alone, according to our HungerCount report. Since 2010, Food Banks Canada has shared over $829 million in food supports and over $245 million in funding to help maximize collective impact and strengthen local capacity – while, backed by leading research, advocating for meaningful actions from governments to counter hunger and its root causes. Our vision is clear: create a Canada where no one goes hungry. Visit foodbankscanada.ca to learn more.

About Waterstone Human Capital

Better leaders, better cultures, better results. It’s no surprise Waterstone’s promise has culture right in the middle — the same place where culture sits in every high-performance organization, including ours. Since 2003, we’ve been providing retained executive search 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.

For more information, please visit waterstonehc.com or canadasmostadmired.com

For media inquiries:
For additional information or interview requests for Food Banks Canada, please contact Debra Quinn,  debquinn@sppublicrelations.com 647-985-7162

Robyn Levy, Program Manager – Most Admired Awards, Waterstone Human Capital
rlevy@waterstonehc.com 647-505-4536