Waterstone Human Capital is a leading cultural talent management professional services firm working with entrepreneurial-minded, high-growth organizations that see culture as their single greatest asset. The company supports organizations in unleashing the power of their corporate culture to drive performance and growth. Its executive search and recruitment practice is best-in-class. Its process is designed to maximize fit and integration, allowing us to identify candidates who possess the key behaviors that drive success within a client’s organization.

The Waterstone Culture Institute is a proven resource for organizations looking for culture transformation, culture measurement and advisory, and leadership and team development services. It’s everything leaders need to put culture at the center of strategy and drive high performance within an organization. It  offers three services to support culture transformation within organizations: a suite of leadership and team development programs, including its flagship program, Building High Performance Teams and Cultures; Waterstone ENGAGE, a culture measurement and engagement program that provides data and insights essential to strengthening culture, and culture advisory and coaching services to support building and actioning a plan for culture change; and Waterstone’s Culturepreneur Operating System, a culture curation and transformation process that helps organizations build and sustain 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.

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