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A s C E O s o u r s e l v e s , w e u n d e r s t a n d t h e u n i q u e c h a l l e n g e s y o u f a c e a n d a r e d e d i c a t e d t o s i g n i f i c a n t l y e n h a n c i n g y o u r s u c c e s s a n d o v e r a l l w e l l - b e i n g , a s w e l l a s t h a t o f y o u r f a m i l y a n d c o m p a n y .
A s t h e p r e m i e r C E O P e e r G r o u p o r g a n i z a t i o n , C E O G l o b a l N e t w o r k i s a t t h e f o r e f r o n t o f p r o v i d i n g u n p a r a l l e l e d o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r l e a r n i n g a n d d e v e l o p m e n t . O u r p e e r g r o u p m e e t i n g s , e x p e r t l y f a c i l i t a t e d b y p r o v e n a n d e x p e r i e n c e d C E O s , a r e c o m p l e m e n t e d b y t a r g e t e d o n e - t o - o n e m e n t o r i n g , a b e s p o k e c u r r i c u l u m , a n d f o c u s e d l e a r n i n g e v e n t s t h r o u g h o u t t h e y e a r , m a k i n g u s t h e g o l d s t a n d a r d f o r C E O e d u c a t i o n a n d d e v e l o p m e n t .
W e d i f f e r en t i a t e o u r s e l v e s f r o m o t h e r s i n t h e C E O a n d e x e c u t i v e p e e r g r o u p a r e n a t h r o u g h o u r s t e a d f a s t c o m m i t m e n t t o t h e s u c c e s s o f o u r M e m b e r s . W e a c c o m p l i s h t h i s t h r o u g h a r i g o r o u s m e m b e r s h i p s c r e e n i n g p r o c e s s , t h e s e l e c t i o n o f o n l y t h e m o s t h i g h l y q u a l i f i e d G r o u p L e a d e r s , a n d a s t e a d f a s t d e d i c a t i o n t o f o s t e r i n g a c u l t u r e o f o u t s t a n d i n g M e m b e r e n g a g e m e n t a n d c o m m i t m e n t .
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Welcome to the 7th annual Canadian Business Excellence Awards for Private Businesses. The cocktail reception has the theme, “A Sparkling Soirée - A Night of Bubbles and Laughter.”
Tonight, we gather to honour the outstanding organizations that have set new standards of excellence in the private business sector. On behalf of the Board of Governors, the Board of Directors, and the Excellence Canada team, I would like to extend a sincere congratulations to those receiving the 2023 Canadian Business Excellence Awards for Private Businesses. As we celebrate your success, let us embrace this opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations, share insights, and create new opportunities that will drive our businesses forward.
We hope that you enjoy this night with your team! As Michael Broadbent once said, “ drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures ”.
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to our esteemed sponsors for their invaluable support, as well as the Excellence Canada team for their tireless efforts in making this event possible.
Thank you again for joining us tonight. We wish you continued personal and business health and success.
Warm regards,
Allan N. Ebedes President & CEO Excellence Canada
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. – 6:05 p.m.
6:05 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
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REGISTRATION & NETWORKING
Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres
OPENING REMARKS
Adam Stoehr, VP Education and Research, Excellence Canada & Iva Grbesic, Fashion/Lifestyle Blogger and regular on Cityline's Makeover Madness
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BALANCING LIFE WITH HUMOUR
Kate Davis, Speaker, Comedienne, and Writer
PRESENTATION OF THE CANADIAN BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARDS FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES
(Listed in alphabetical order)
Alexa Translations
Altek Supply
Applauz
BeaverTails Canada Inc.
CSPN (Customer Service Professionals Network)
eStruxture Data Centers
Geotab
Groupe MMI inc.
HGreg
Integracare Inc.
ISU Corp
Jan Kelley Marketing
Jarvis Consulting Group
Kognitive Sales Solutions
MBC Managed IT Services
OEIS Protection
Petal Health
R. Khanuja Dentistry Professional Corporation
Superior Glove Works
T&T Power Group Inc.
Valsoft Corporation Inc.
Waterford Global Inc.
Weston Forest
Winright Law
CONCLUDING REMARKS
COCKTAIL RECEPTION
Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres
Adam is one of Excellence Canada’s primary facilitators and speakers. He researches and typically speaks about strategy, employee happiness, organizational excellence, customer experience, leadership, process improvement and all forms of quality management.
Adam has delivered talks for more than 25,000 adults and has conducted more than 20 Canada Awards for Excellence verifications since 2000.
Iva Grbesic Fashion/Lifestyle Blogger and regular on Cityline’s Makeover Madness
Iva is a firm believer that life’s problems are easier to deal with when you’re wearing great jeans, red lipstick and an amazing pair of shoes. This stylist and mother of four is a style expert bringing positivity and inspiration to everything she does.
Iva is a style expert bringing you the latest trends in fashion. She offers tips for real women by a real woman and shows you how easy it is to look your best and feel confident. Known for her transformations during Cityline’s Makeover Madness episodes Iva always brings the style and wow factor to every transformation.
KEYNOTE | Balancing Life With Humour
Kate Davis Speaker, Comedienne and WriterKate’s comedy career started as a need to get out of her house. So one night after putting the kids to sleep she ventured into a local comedy club and never looked back!
Now, a twelve-time nominee at the Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Female Standup and the prestigious Phil Hartman Award. Kate is also the star of her own hour-long comedy special on CTV and the Comedy Network, “Comedy Now.” Kate headlines across the country and has performed at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, The Hubcap Comedy Festival, The Kitchener-Waterloo Comedy Festival and LOL. Kate has also shared the stage with Lewis Black and Seth Meyers and is a favorite at corporate events. Kate’s corporate career has allowed her the opportunity to host events for the former President, Bill Clinton, Barbara Walters and many others. You might have heard Kate on CBC Radio “The Debaters” as well as Sirius XM radio. Kate made it to the final round in Toronto for “Last Comic Standing” 2008 season and 2011 in Toronto for NBC’s Stand up for Diversity. Kate has 2 comedy albums out “House Arrest” and her newest album “Tested Positive.”
Alexa Translations provides A.I.-powered translations for the world’s most prestigious legal, financial, and government institutions. Our fast, accurate, and secure technology empowers professionals to deliver complex, industry-specific results. And with two decades of award-winning account management and professional services, you can trust your business is in good hands.
Altek Supply is a second-generation family-owned and operated business that inventories and markets products that support the oil, gas, chemical, mining, refining, water and wastewater industries. Altek Supply has been in business for over 24 years. Our success is a direct reflection of our high-calibre, hardworking, fun-loving, customer-oriented and dedicated A-Team employees. We work tirelessly to create and sustain an environment that enables our employees to reach their potential and continually create opportunities for them to contribute to the business’s overall success.
Applauz
Montreal, QC
Applauz makes work a happier place! Applauz is an online platform designed to enhance employee engagement and recognition within organizations. We provide a centralized hub where employees can give and receive recognition for their contributions and achievements in the workplace. Through the platform, team members can express appreciation for their colleagues’ efforts, celebrate milestones, and showcase outstanding performance. We offer a variety of features such as peer-to-peer recognition, customizable rewards, social recognition feeds, and analytics to track employee engagement. By fostering a culture of recognition and appreciation, Applauz.me aims to boost morale, motivate employees, and promote a positive work environment.
BeaverTails Canada Inc.
Montreal, QC
We are BeaverTails, and we have been punctuating memorable moments for 45 years. Offering indulgent memories since 1978, we continue our heritage by uniquely combining our signature recipe with premium quality ingredients. The BeaverTails experience can be found at our shop and mobile locations from coast-to-coast, as well as within some of North America’s favourite leisure and tourism environments. Our signature product, the BeaverTails® pastry, got its humble beginnings in Ottawa. Fast-forward 45 years and this is now a bucket-list item for locals and tourists alike.
CSPN is a leading provider of training programs, consulting services, and networking opportunities, designed to empower organizations and harness the competitive advantage of delivering exceptional customer experiences.
eStruxture is the largest Canadian data center provider with locations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. Our solutions give you more: more locations, more capacity, more connections that enable you to run modern, demanding enterprise applications, and offer the control to rapidly scale in response to unpredictable changes in business processes.
Headquartered in Montreal, eStruxture provides access to an ecosystem of almost 1,000 customers that trust our infrastructure and customer support, including carriers, cloud providers, media content, financial services, and enterprise customers. eStruxture offers colocation, bandwidth, security and support services across Canada in our carrier and cloudneutral facilities.
Geotab Oakville, ON
Geotab is a global leader in connected transportation solutions. We provide telematics - vehicle and asset tracking - solutions to over forty thousand customers in 150 countries. For more than 20 years, we have invested in groundbreaking data research and innovation to enable partners and customers, including Fortune 500 and public sector organizations, to transform their fleets and operations. We connect to over 3.5 million vehicles and process more than 55 billion data points a day so that customers can make better decisions, increase productivity, have safer fleets, and achieve their sustainability goals. Geotab’s open platform and Marketplace, offers hundreds of third-party solution options. Backed by a team of industry leading data scientists and AI experts, Geotab is unlocking the power of data to understand real-time and predictive analytics - solving for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s world. To learn more, visit www.geotab. com, follow @GEOTAB on Twitter and LinkedIn or visit the Geotab Blog.
Groupe MMI inc. Saint-Laurent, QC
Group MMI is a leader in the cleaning industry in Eastern Canada. Founded in 1991, MMI cares for the cleaning needs of over 1300 locations. What distinguishes MMI from its competitors is its focus on culture. MMI prioritizes a humans first philosophy. Where the cleaning industry often sacrifices its workers for higher profit, MMI recognizes that happy and healthy workers are pivotal. With this in mind, MMI has created a culture department headed by a Culture Architect. The end result is that MMI has one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry which greatly increases customer satisfaction.
Founded in 1993 and celebrating over 30 years of service, HGreg—which includes both HGrégoire and HGreg.com— is committed to simplifying the car-buying process through its core values of excellence, transparency, smart use of technology and a refreshing customer-focused philosophy. Supported by a passionate team of more than 1,700 car enthusiasts, HGreg operates 31 dealerships in North America, including 20 in Québec, offering both pre-owned and new vehicles. For more information, visit hgregoire.com.
Founded in 1990, Integracare provides a wide range of private nursing care and personal support services to individuals in their homes, hospitals, and retirement residences. Integracare’s team of Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses, Certified Personal Support Workers, Registered Physiotherapists and Registered Massage Therapists provide quality home healthcare, medical treatment and living assistance for our Clients and their Families. Our services, while encompassing all levels of nursing care, have always included a wide range of related services that address the needs of our Clients. Integracare’s dedicated team provides the highest quality care which fosters Client’s independence and joyful living wherever they call home.
ISU Corp Kitchener, ON
ISU Corp is an award-winning Canadian software development firm based in Kitchener, ON, with over 17 years of experience in various industries. We specialize in providing cost-effective custom software development, IT outsourcing, and technology management services across North American time zones. Our team of senior full-stack developers and IT experts offer web and mobile software development solutions, while our unique owner’s mindset helps reduce development costs and fast-track timelines. We work closely with our clients to craft project specifications tailored to their company’s needs to ensure the best ROI.
Jan Kelley Inc. Burlington, ON
Jan Kelley is a fully independent, 100% Canadian owned creative and digital agency.
Celebrating 110 years this year, Jan Kelley is 75 people strong and services clients across Canada, the US and Europe. Specializing in building materials, automotive and SAAS, Jan Kelley’s works with its clients in true partnership. With many awards in the trophy case, Jan Kelley has been recently recognized with the Waterstone Most Admired Culture Award, Google’s Search ad award, Google Auto Rising Star award, a LinkedIn agency partner award as well as being recognized as a top global partner from both Mitsubishi and PPG.
Jarvis Consulting Group
Toronto, ON
Jarvis is a Talent Consulting & Technology Advisory firm with ongoing partnerships across North America’s top financial institutions, multinational consulting firms, cutting-edge startups, and major technology companies. As technologies evolve and workplace landscapes shift, our partners depend on us to dig beneath the surface of their most complex challenges and deliver an IT solution with lasting value.
Our core values, CREATE (Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Alignment, Transparency & Empathy) form the foundations of our company’s mission to Equalize Opportunity and Maximize Human Potential.
Kognitive Sales Solutions
Toronto, ON
Kognitive Sales Solutions was founded in 2006 and is an industry leader in face-to-face sales programs across Canada, based in Toronto, Ontario. We exist to provide strategic, end to end sales solutions, that exceed client expectations and drive increased sales revenue, profitability and world-class customer service across multiple markets and industries. We drive excellence in all that we do through investing in our people and leveraging cutting-edge technology and best-inclass systems.
MBC Managed IT Services
Richmond Hill, ON
Since 2000, MBC has been helping Canadian businesses grow by handling their corporate technology needs through Cloud Solutions and Managed IT Services. Our clients are very unique, operating in different verticals, however, what they share among them is the desire for IT to be simple, secure, and modern. Our core values, – Knowledge, Responsiveness, and Honesty, – serve as fundamental beliefs that ensure that our behavior and actions are aligned with customer requirements so that we continually anticipate, meet, and exceed client expectations in a delightful way. Our mission is Secure and Delightful IT, and we guarantee this right in our service level agreement through an Employee Satisfaction Guarantee where we measure our success by ensuring the people that use our services daily are always delighted.
OEIS Protection Inc. Niagara Falls, ON
We are a Full-Service Private Investigation firm and Private Security Services with offices located in Canada, the USA, Caribbeans and the Middle East. We provide Professional Investigating and VIP Security Services and Training for Corporations and the Public.
We declare that our fundamental duty is to serve mankind, to safeguard lives and property, to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the Constitutional rights of all men to liberty, equality and justice.
Petal Health
Quebec City, QC
Petal develops digital platforms that optimize clinical capacity management and care coordination by driving operational efficiency. Its innovative technology solutions provide healthcare professionals and administrators with the data-driven information they need to ensure continuity of care, reduce inefficiencies and optimize their scarce healthcare resources. Founded in 2010, Petal is a Canadian healthcare technology leader specializing in real-time care orchestration. With a dedicated team of over 340 employees, Petal has offices in Quebec City, Montreal, Regina, Toronto, Boston and Paris.
Brampton, ON
R. Khanuja Dentistry Professional Corporation is a health corporation and uses Castlemore Dental, Headwaters Dental and Flower City Dental as the trade names. The company offers Cosmetic, Family and Implant dentistry services and has 8 locations.
R. Khanuja Dentistry understands the value of each employee, each customer and offers the highest standard of care being at the forefront of innovative technology.
Dr. Raj is one of the recipients of Canada 150 Medallion—a medal of honour for community service and The June Callwood Oustanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism. The company has donated $250,000 in dental products and services to the vulnerable in the communities.
Superior Glove Works Acton, ON
Superior Glove is a leading innovator in the design and manufacture of safety gloves and sleeves. Since 1910, we have been protecting workers across the globe with specialized hand and arm protection for every major industry. Superior Glove products are engineered at our headquarters in Ontario, Canada. But our team and production facilities span across Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America.
T&T Power Group Inc. Wellesley, ON
T&T Power Group exists to provide power generation solutions to our clients. We continually strive to increase our repertoire of services and products keeping in line with current industry standards and customer needs. We provide service, sales, rentals, and installation of all power generation products and systems including complete turn-key systems. Specifically, we are a generator manufacturer, sales, and service organization. Our scope of services includes a wellrounded offering of custom and standard solutions allowing for a powerful marriage between efficiency and creativity. It’s through the combination of these skill sets that allows us to prosper in the marketplace.
Established in Canada in 2015, Valsoft acquires and develops vertical market software companies, enabling each business to deliver the best mission-critical solutions for customers in their respective industries or niche. A key tenet of Valsoft’s philosophy is to invest in well-established businesses and foster an entrepreneurial environment that molds companies into leaders in their respective industries. Valsoft looks to buy, hold and create value through long-term partnerships with existing management.
Waterford Global Inc. is a top-tier international executive search firm specialized in helping our clients build exceptional teams through the acquisition of equally exceptional talent. Clients retain our firm as a strategic partner and advisor in the recruitment of executive-level leaders and mid-to-senior level managerial, technical, and scientific talent. Working with a diverse client portfolio of domestic and international organizations, we contribute to their success in mature and emerging markets. With over 45 years of combined experience between our firm’s two Founding Partners, Karen Swystun and Fred Loewen, Waterford Global Inc. is a long-standing provider-of-choice to private- and public-sector clients in such key industry verticals as agribusiness, manufacturing, healthcare, private equity, professional and financial services, mining, energy & natural resources, construction & infrastructure, cleantech, and technology. Our geographical footprint includes satellite offices across Canada and globally, from which we regularly deliver our customized, high-touch, and high-value search and recruitment services.
Weston Forest
Mississauga, ON
Weston Forest is a leading distributor and remanufacturer of softwood & hardwood lumber and specialty panel products, serving North America’s industrial and construction sectors. The Company originated as a family business in 1953. Today we are a vital and dynamic organization, repeatedly recognized by Deloitte as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, recipient of the Canadian Business Excellence Awards for Private Businesses, and winner of Waterstone Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures Award. Weston Forest is certified as a Great Place to Work®!
Winright Law
Vancouver, BC
Winright Law is a law firm that focuses on business, real estate and wills and estate planning. Our practice is devoted to helping companies and individuals with their legal issues and to protecting them from legal liability. Our clients range from individuals and investors, to real estate syndicates, restaurants, and start-up companies.
Winright Law is a law firm that aims to be the leader of innovative practices in the legal industry, by consistently providing better legal services to our clients and a better work environment for our employees. Our mission is to lead, inspire and create a better legal experience.
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