Who are the finalists of the 2025 Workplace Benefits Awards?

The winners will be announced on Tues., Oct. 21 at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto during the 2025 Healthy Outcomes Conference, an in-person event intended for employers to exchange ideas, best practices and tools for achieving improved employee health outcomes and enhanced organizational performance.

Register to attend the 2025 Healthy Outcomes Conference here.

This year’s finalists are:

Absence Management

• BDO Canada LLP
• Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan
• PepsiCo Canada

Benefits Plan Communications

• Arc’teryx Equipment
• Cascades
• RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust
• Sobeys Inc.

DEI Program

• Air Canada
• CIBC Mellon
• Fengate Asset Management
• Seaspan

Drug/Benefits Plan Innovation

• Ecclesiastical Insurance
• Fengate Asset Management
• Workplace Safety Insurance Board

Financial Wellness Program

• CAA Club Group
• Fidelity Canada
• PepsiCo Canada

Future of Work Strategy

• Admiral Insurance
• Fengate Asset Management
• Town of Caledon

HR/Benefits Professional of the Year

• Jes Crawford, senior analyst, compensation and benefits, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc.
• Faye Gagne, manager, employee relations and wellness, Henry Schein Canada Inc.
• Jane Standing, senior Canadian benefits manager, Amazon Canada
• Ibrahim Toor, director, pensions, Waterloo Regional Health Network

Health/Wellness Program (>1,000 employees)

• Marriott Hotels of Canada
• Medavie
• Pratt & Whitney Canada

Health/Wellness Program (<1,000 employees)

• Admiral Insurance
• Flight Centre Travel Group
• Fengate Asset Management

Mental Health Program (>1,000 employees)

• Pratt & Whitney Canada
• Purolator Inc.
• The Corporation of the County of Simcoe
• University of British Columbia

Mental Health Program (<1,000 employees)

• Co-operative Superannuation Society
• Fengate Asset Management
• Flight Centre Travel Group

Read: Meet the 2025 Workplace Benefits Awards judges

Benefits Canada would like to extend a huge thank you to the panel of judges that helped select this year’s finalists and winners: Katharine Coons, national workplace mental-health specialist at the Canadian Mental Health Association; Matt Davison, dean of science at Western University and principal researcher at Canada’s Financial Wellness Lab; Jordan Fremont, partner in the pensions and benefits team at Stikeman Elliott LLP; Jean-Guy Gauthier, expert in risk and benefits management at CQFD Actuariat; Marcie Hawranik, founder of Canadian Equity Consulting; Julie Holden, principal of Holden & Associates; Jennifer Paterson, editor at Benefits Canada; Lidia Pawlikowski, health and performance practice leader at Hub International Ltd.; Wendy Poirier, global well-being leader at WTW; Jennifer Schmidt, partner at Mercer Canada; Erin Murphy-Sheriffs, associate vice-president of well-being solutions at Aon; Sonya Singh, associate editor at Benefits Canada; and Blake Wolfe, managing editor at Benefits Canada.

Special thanks also goes out to five of last year’s winners who took part in this year’s awards judging: Laura Carter, associate director of benefits at the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan; Andrew Honor, psychological health and wellness specialist at Peel Region; Paula Ioannou, head of total rewards at TMX Group Inc.; Allison Jost, total rewards manager at Admiral Insurance; and Joanna Marra, director of wellness at CAA Club Group.

[Note: The representatives from Admiral Insurance, CAA Club Group and the HOOPP, both featured as finalists again in 2025, didn’t judge the respective categories in which they submitted entries to this year.]

Congratulations again to all of the finalists!

The winners of the 2025 Workplace Benefits Awards will be announced during the 2025 Healthy Outcomes Conference. Register to attend here.