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Waterstone Human Capital – A premier cultural talent management company providing retained executive search services organizations across North America

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Waterstone Human Capital is a prominent professional services firm specializing in cultural talent management. The company collaborates with entrepreneurial-minded, high-growth organizations that recognize the significance of their corporate culture as a vital asset. Waterstone Human Capital assists these organizations in harnessing the potential of their culture to enhance performance and facilitate growth. Their executive search and recruitment process is recognized for its excellence, designed to ensure a perfect fit and seamless integration of candidates who embody the key behaviors essential for success within the client's organization.

The Waterstone Culture Institute serves as a proven resource for organizations seeking culture transformation, culture measurement and advisory, and leadership and team development services. This institute offers a comprehensive suite of services to empower leaders to prioritize culture in their strategic plans and drive exceptional performance within their organizations. These services include leadership and team development programs, such as the flagship program, "Building High Performance Teams and Cultures," as well as "Waterstone ENGAGE," a culture measurement and engagement program that furnishes valuable data and insights crucial for fortifying culture. Additionally, they provide culture advisory and coaching services to aid in the formulation and execution of culture change plans. Waterstone's Culturepreneur Operating System, a process dedicated to culture curation and transformation, aids organizations in constructing and maintaining high-performance cultures.

Recruit4Fit: Transformational Recruitment and Executive Search

At Waterstone Human Capital, they center their executive search processes on cultural fit and cultural opportunities. Finding the right people with the right mindset is the only way to achieve sustainable and scalable growth within your organization.

The network of resources that they tap into to find you the right candidates simply cannot be beat or recreated anywhere else. Over the years of conducting searches, they’ve built and extensive network of senior executives across the United States and Canada. Moreover, they have a proprietary database containing information on nearly a half a million organizations and almost one million individuals. Their search specialists leverage this custom software to source the right resources to fill your needs in a timely manner.

Their digital library is filled with annual reports, articles, and extensive documentation on corporate styles, cultures, and structures so that their team and your team can be educated and in lock-step throughout the entire process.

Last, but certainly not least, they stop at nothing to fulfill your roles with qualified candidates who will advance your organization. This includes strategic advertising of open positions that target the right individuals with the right message to attract your newest team members.

Waterstone ENGAGE™

Regularly measuring and assessing employee engagement and corporate culture is an essential part of supporting healthy organizational performance – and Waterstone can help. Waterstone ENGAGE™ is an annual employee survey program that will equip you with actionable data about both your corporate culture, employee engagement and as well as the level of trust in your organization.

The program includes actionable recommendations on where you can achieve the greatest impact as it relates to culture and engagement. They work with you to create a customized action plan and provide ongoing measurement and consulting support to help drive your performance. ENGAGE™ subscriptions include culture and engagement trend reports, human capital templates, event discounts, valuable learning content, and more.

Waterstone’s Culturepreneur Operating System

Culturepreneurial leaders and organizations see their culture as the means through which they can drive unprecedented levels of innovation, competitive advantage, and performance. Waterstone’s Culturepreneur Operating System supports organizations in doing just that by leading executive leadership teams through a simple, proven, and measurable approach to drive performance through culture transformation.

With Waterstone’s Culturepreneur Operating System, your culture will truly become your competitive advantage. They will work with you and your leadership team to:

  • Assess the current state of your organization’s culture and engagement.
  • Paint the picture of the desired culture that will drive your organization’s performance.
  • Develop the culture transformation roadmap and scorecard, including key priorities and measures needed to achieve and sustain the desired culture.
  • Engage leaders and teams in culture transformation through the building of key leadership competencies and develop the behaviours and practices most essential to building high performance teams and cultures.
  • Measure the impact your culture has on your organization’s performance.
  • Apply a standard, repeatable, process for putting culture at the center of strategy.

Waterstone’s Culturepreneur Operating System can help you transition to a culturepreneurial process by using culture as a business system—planning, developing a strategy, and setting measurable objectives and tactics to get you to the outcomes you desire.

About | Marty Parker

Marty Parker is president and chief executive officer of Waterstone Human Capital. In 2005, Marty founded Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, an annual program that recognizes best-in-class Canadian organizations for having a culture that has helped them enhance performance and sustain a competitive advantage. In 2014, the program expanded to include Canada’s Most Admired CEO.

Marty is considered a global leader and expert on human capital and corporate culture. He is a frequent commentator and keynote speaker on issues surrounding leadership and organizational culture. He is the author of Culture Connection: How Developing a Winning Culture Will Give Your Organization a Competitive Advantage (McGraw-Hill, 2012) and The Culturepreneur: How High Performance Leaders Craft Culture as Competitive Advantage (Page Two, 2021).

Marty holds a bachelor of arts with honors, as well as a Master of Science degree in marketing from the University of Guelph. He and his wife, Tanya, live in Mississauga and Huntsville Ontario, and Delray Beach, Florida, and they are the parents of five children.

“Our services are tailored to address the leadership training, recruitment, and culture and engagement measurement and assessment requirements of our clients.”

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