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Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month Launch
Excellence Canada is proud to announce the kickoff of the 25th annual Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month (CHWM) on October 1, 2025, a month-long national campaign dedicated to inspiring Canadian employers to strengthen workplace wellness, culture, and resilience. This...
Excellence Canada Recruiting to Fill Vacant Seats on Board of Directors
Here’s your opportunity to take a leadership role in Canada’s excellence community. Excellence Canada, the standard-bearer for Canadian excellence for over 40 years, is seeking leaders to join its Board of Directors. The organization is at the beginning of its next...
Excellence Canada Announces the Recipients of the 2025 Canadian Business Excellence Award for Private Business (CBEA)
Excellence Canada announces that, at the ninth annual Canadian Business Excellence Awards for Private Business, 35 organizations have earned the CBEA TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, July 24, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Excellence Canada is pleased to announce that, at the...
Celebrate Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month This October with Free Resources and National Recognition
Excellence Canada is proud to announce the 2025 edition of Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month® (CHWM), an annual celebration taking place throughout October that encourages organizations across the country to prioritize and promote healthy, inclusive, and thriving...
Excellence Canada Launches EPIC – A Groundbreaking National Framework Designed to Empower Canadian SMEs
Excellence Canada has selected Canada Day to launch its newest framework geared to helping Canada's small and medium sized businesses thrive in changing times. TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, June 30, 2025 Excellence Canada is proud to announce the launch...
Safe Doesn’t Mean Soft: How to Truly Support Mental Health at Work
As we mark Mental Health Week, the conversation around workplace wellbeing often turns toward kindness, empathy, and flexibility—and rightly so. But a mentally healthy workplace isn’t built on good intentions alone. It’s built on a foundation of psychological...
Honouring Parents in the Workplace: The Reality Behind the Resilience
As Mother’s Day approaches, it’s a perfect moment to pause and reflect on the incredible efforts of the parents among us—those who give their all both at home and at work, often without fanfare. While we typically celebrate this holiday with flowers or cards, this...
Excellence Canada Adds to Leadership Development Offering
Excellence Canada President, Sean Slater Excellence Canada partners with CEO Global Network to offer transformational Global Leadership Training Program to better support leadership development TORONTO, ON, CANADA, May 6, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Excellence Canada...
Partner Blog with Workright: Human-Centric Leadership: The Future of Work is More Human Than Ever
In the race to adopt AI, automation, and ever-evolving digital tools, it's easy to forget one vital truth: organizations are still powered by people. As we step further into 2025, one of the most critical trends shaping the workplace isn’t about machines—it’s about...
Toronto Police Service Achieves Gold-Level Recognition for Mental Health at Work
Toronto Police Service Achieves Gold-Level Recognition for Mental Health at Work On March 4, 2025, Excellence Canada President Sean Slater was honoured to attend the Toronto Police Service Board meeting to present the Canada Award for Excellence – Gold Level in Mental...
Excellence Canada announces the 2024 Canada Awards for Excellence Recipients
EC announces that 16 awards will be presented to 15 outstanding Canadian organizations in recognition of their commitment to continual improvement and pursuit of excellence.
Do More With Less: 5 Ways to Kickstart Continual Improvement in 2024
As a new year begins, numerous business opportunities unfold. Instead of setting resolutions that may fade away, what if we prioritize a mindset of continual improvement? Here are five proven ways to ensure your business starts the year on a positive note, using tools...
How do your employees EXPERIENCE work?
The total employee experience refers to the overall experience an employee has throughout their entire employment journey with an organization. It encapsulates what they encounter and observe over the course of their employment, including every interaction that...
Excellence Canada Collaborates with Two Leading Experts to Improve Employee Mental Health and Wellbeing
Excellence Canada is collaborating with Merv Gilbert, Director of Vancouver Psych Safety Consulting, and Graham Lowe, President of the Graham Lowe Group– two of Canada’s leading experts on healthy workplaces
Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month 2021 – Feel Great at Work!
The 21st Annual Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month® (CHWM) is a four-week celebration designed to introduce workplace health to organizations and support those that are already promoting healthy workplaces.
Excellence Pays off on the Stock Market Long Term – 2021
Excellence Pays off! – To see if there is any link between a commitment to Excellence and stock price, Excellence Canada tracks the stock performance for all of the Canada Awards for Excellence (CAE) recipients who are traded on a stock market. Once again in 2021, if you look at the collective return for all of the recipients between 1984 and 2021…
Goodbye Old Normal, Hello New…Renaissance!
Senior leaders with Excellence Canada came together in Summer 2021 to share insights, concerns, questions, and even profound optimism as a key question that was posed: what will the post-pandemic reality be in your organization?
Subject Line: Are you ready for a drink?
Given the interesting times we’re living in, you could be forgiven for thinking of adult beverages when you read the subject line. But what I’m referring to is that old adage, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”
Excellence Canada and The Inclusion Project enter into a strategic alliance to promote racial equity, diversity and inclusion in Canada
Through a strategic alliance for employment equity and organizational excellence, The Inclusion Project (TIP) and Excellence Canada (EC) are supporting Canada’s top organizations, institutions, and stakeholders to advance racial equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) across public and private sectors.
The Future of Work: Insights from Leaders in Canada
The Excellence Canada “Thought Leaders’ Round Table” (TLRT) met in October 2020 to discuss two critical issues impacting Canadian organizations: The Future of Work, and the urgent need for Diversity and Inclusion in workplaces.