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Top 25 Women board recruitment firms based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 161 women board recruitment firms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 1,255 professional contacts across them, including 501 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers women board recruitment firms headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest women board recruitment firms based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 172 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LHH Knightsbridge Search professionals are experts in finding, assessing and delivering transformational talent to meet both the permanent and interim leadership needs of clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IQ PARTNERS is Canada’s top Executive Search & Recruitment agency in Toronto.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Watson, we help Boards be more effective so they can positively shape the future of their organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over 15 years of industry expertise, 3 Step Recruitment Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Waterford Executive is a leading permanent search firm specializing in finding highly skilled candidates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over the years, CompuStaff has earned a reputation as one of the most effective, results-oriented firms in the search industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Headhunters is a leading recruitment firm serving North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It all started with a simple question: why not extend the same care and rigor of executive search to mid-level leadership positions?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lotus Group is a national, multidisciplinary, award winning, 100% women-owned Retained Search and HR firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Montpetit est un cabinet de recrutement spécialisé dans les domaines juridique et administratif, qui a pour mission d’aider ses partenaires dans leur réussite professionnelle en…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Magna Search Group, we recognize that finding the right talent is crucial to an organization’s success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 2010, INACRE ne cesse de se développer et est maintenant l’une des plus reconnues de l’Industrie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pender & Howe is a North American talent advisory firm specializing in leadership recruitment and consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2015, Grid Group is a Canadian boutique search firm headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Women Get On Board Inc.(WGOB) is a social purpose company launched in 2015 with a bold vision to build a national movement that connects, promotes, and empowers women to serve on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Are you having a hard time finding the right candidate for a strategic position within your organization?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ranked among Canada's Top Growing Companies by The Globe and Mail, Massey Henry is one of North America’s leading executive search and board advisory firms focused exclusively on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Notre réussite est de contribuer à VOTRE réussite, en vous permettant d’être entourés des meilleurs talents au sein de votre entreprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leadership decisions shape the trajectory of an organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Griffith Group Executive Search is a nationally recognized, women-owned leadership advisory firm renowned for delivering bespoke solutions that drive organizational transformation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NagataConnex Executive Legal Search is a search and recruitment firm solely focused on the placement of lawyers and legal professionals into law firms and corporations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Faire grandir les organisations par l’humain Chez Grands Talents, nous croyons que les défis d’affaires sont avant tout des défis humains.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mirams Becker is a retained executive search firm dedicated to serving the healthcare sector, with a focus on providing clients with the highest level of service and customization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exceptional investment management, real estate and financial services firms have been choosing us to recruit their next great leaders for over 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Millésime, we work with SMEs and large companies to recruit managers and executives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: women board recruitment firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names women board recruitment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of women board recruitment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name women board recruitment firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Women board recruitment firms based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 161 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among women board recruitment firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “women board recruitment firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names women board recruitment firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among women board recruitment firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 501 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names women board recruitment firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many women board recruitment firms are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 161 women board recruitment firms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
LHH Knightsbridge, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most women board recruitment firms?
Toronto leads with 64 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (29) and Vancouver (16).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 501 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 161 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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