Canadian CEO of the Year Awards

CEO Monthly is committed to shining a spotlight on the best and brightest CEOs from wide range of regions and industries. With great excitement, we can now announce that we will be expanding our reach by adding a brand-new programme to our current awards portfolio! Being introduced for the first time in 2024 is the Canadian CEO of the Year Awards!

Canada boasts a highly developed and diversified economy, which last year was ranked as the tenth largest GDP in the world. With over 1.3 million employer businesses across the country, it is the CEO’s role to lead these enterprises to growth and prosperity. Whether that be through overseeing short and long-term profitability, developing organisational strategies, fostering innovation, mitigating risks, or creating value for both customers and shareholders – these duties are imperative to the overall direction of a business, and come with both internal and external pressures.

Some immediate pressures and concerns that CEOs in Canada are currently navigating include geopolitical tensions, supply chain instability, climate change, and integration of new technologies. Most Canadian chief executives are adjusting their strategies to stay competitive in these key areas. A study conducted by Ernst & Young reported that Canadian businesses are much more proactive regarding sustainability than their global counterparts, with almost half of the participating CEOs planning to invest in ESG as a top priority in the coming year. In another recent survey by KPMG, it was revealed that over seventy percent of Canadian CEOs are focusing on enhancing productivity, which is where digital transformation and emerging technologies such as generative AI come in. The majority of CEOs surveyed believe that investing in upgraded technology is necessary to keep pace with evolving customer demands, improve operational efficiency, and protect against cybersecurity threats.

Through the Canadian CEO of the Year Awards 2024 we will be rewarding the top-performing CEOs of the past 12 months, whose unwavering dedication and decisive leadership has translated into positive business outcomes. Our unique methodology allows for a completely unbiased approach to selecting winners, with a strict criterion based on factors like company performance, strategic initiatives, market expansion, and employee engagement policies. We are also proudly a non-pay-to-play enterprise, meaning that there are no costs associated with taking part in the awards at any stage in the process. Recipients are provided with the opportunity to take advantage of either free-of-charge or commercial marketing tools to celebrate their achievement, and we offer advertising options for a wide range of budgets and promotional requirements.

With an international circulation made up of 48,000 chief executive officers, founders, and other c-level executives, CEO Monthly is the perfect platform for exposure to a targeted audience of high-level decision makers. If you know a trailblazing CEO based in Canada that deserves the chance to gain recognition amongst global industry peers, then consider submitting a nomination in the inaugural Canadian CEO of the Year Awards! Self-nominations are also welcome and encouraged, so don’t hesitate and take part today! Click ‘Vote Now’ and follow the instructions provided to make a submission in the Canadian CEO of the Year Awards 2024.

The CEO Monthly team work ardently to identify great business leaders, driving many of the nominations themselves. We also encourage external nominations via the subscribers of the magazine, online visitors, social media followers, clients and wider circulation. Nominating parties are invited to put forward either CEOs of third-party businesses whom they hold in high regard, or the CEO of the business which they are a part of.

All nominees are formally requested to accept their nomination. Should any firm or individual rather decline at this point, they are simply taken out of the running. Those formally accepting are given the opportunity to submit additional materials in support of their nomination. Although there is no obligation to complete and supply material, we have found that many nominees value this stage, in the process, as much as our research team do.

Our dedicated research team will assess all information presented to them. The team gather information independently from a variety of publicly accessible sources, which are assessed alongside any material supplied by a nominating party or the nominee themselves. The research team casts their final judgment, based on various criteria such as: business performance whilst the CEO has been in the position, any dramatic or positive change within the business since the CEO took the helm, feedback from any stakeholders during this time and any new innovations within the timeframe.

Once winners are selected, they are personally notified before any public announcement is made, allowing time for any communications throughout the wider business and the coordination of marketing strategies. Unfortunately, not everyone can be a winner; however, all who take part are encouraged to come back next year. Once the press embargo is lifted, details of our award winners will be made public via the website, award winners’ magazine and subscriber newsletter.

We are prepared to offer a range of promotional packages and items to winners in the Global CEO Excellence Awards, which vary from inclusion in the free-of-charge winners’ directory, to trophies, content in our magazine and on our website.

We encourage all winners to publicly announce their win independently in order to gain maximum exposure for them personally and for their business. Announcements via company websites, social media, via publicly released press releases, and through local and national press are all great ways of maximising the exposure which can be gained from such a great achievement. If you have need of further advice, on how to publicise your win, please feel free to get in touch. We are happy to assist our clients with their needs.

Canadian CEO of the Year Awards (2024)