Our team is represented across several key markets, including Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. This broad reach provides access to senior-level expertise and top-level candidates across the country.

Leaders International Executive Search brings a strong, experience-driven network through its team of seasoned Partners and Consultants, many of whom have held senior leadership roles across industry, government, and the not-for-profit sector. This depth of real-world experience enables the firm to provide practical insight, sound judgment, and a highly consultative approach to each mandate, ensuring strong alignment between client needs and candidate fit.

This expertise is reinforced by Leaders’ presence in key markets across Canada and its global network of affiliates and partners. Together, these connections provide access to deep local and national talent pools, as well as international reach—allowing Leaders to deliver informed, well-connected, and highly effective search outcomes.

Leaders is proud to be the leading Indigenous executive search firm in North America. In 2017, Leaders merged with Higgins Executive Search, the pioneers and innovators in Indigenous Executive Search.

Our Indigenous and Diversity Executive Search practice is established as a leader in North America. Our firm has conducted more successful Indigenous executive search engagements than any other firm. Working across regions, and across sectors, our Indigenous and Diversity Practice Team has delivered on complex recruitment strategies for companies, communities, educational institutions and organizations large and small. We are:

• Experts and leaders in Indigenous and Diversity Search and pioneering Indigenous Executive Search for more than 20 years.
• Experienced at finding, assessing and placing the best diverse talent for Boards, Educational Institutes, Companies, Communities and Governments.
• Uniquely capable of reaching a network of diverse professionals with the most comprehensive diversity-focused database in the executive search industry.
• Experienced with supporting Boards to develop their governance structures and recruit experienced and diverse Directors.
• Able to offer customized services for on-boarding and succession planning.

At Leaders, we take pride in the fact that over 50% of our placed candidates come from underrepresented groups; we take a proactive approach to inclusion that ensures top talent isn’t overlooked.

We emphasize the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) principles internally and with our clients. During every search, we work hard to ensure that EDI principles are embedded throughout the search process. This includes supporting gender-neutral language, diversity in the images that we use, and ensuring accessibility compliance.
 

A key differentiator is our people. Our expertise and experience is unmatched.