A Leading Executive Search Firm In Canada

StoneWood Group Inc. is one of the leading Executive Search Firms in Canada. We specialize in executive search and recruiting in a variety of sectors, including the technology sector. Established in 1981, we excel in finding talented executive level candidates for our client organizations.

Defining the Best in Executive Search

Executive talent drives organizational success, so every hiring decision you make is critical to collective performance.

The search for talent - finding the ideal candidate and ensuring a perfect fit - is both an art and a science. It integrates the latest search methods, assessment technologies, online tracking tools and international databases. And combines the experience, wisdom and industry knowledge of specialized consultants.

This is how StoneWood Group defines excellence in executive search, and we are proud to have built exceptional client relationships on the strength of our services. Our consultants look forward to finding the very best leaders for your organization.

Our experience and expertise makes us one of the leading executive search firms in Canada.

Worldwide Access

We are a member of Access Search Partners, a global leader in executive search with offices in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and South America.

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Finding Candidates
Finding Candidates
Finding Candidates
Ensuring Fit and Integration
Ensuring Fit and Integration
Ensuring Fit and Integration
A Unique Client Experience
A Unique Client Experience
A Unique Client Experience
Why intuitive hiring decisions still prevail…To the benefit of the savviest (not the best) candidates December 7, 2012
When asked about his strategy for hiring a new field manager, Toronto Blue Jays General Manager Alex Anthopoulos was concise: "I am going to trust my gut!"
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Hiring for Attributes: Will That Be Motivated, Highly Motivated or Obsessed? July 15, 2011
It was the spring of 1956 and William Shockley was finally getting the chance to do things 'his way'. With a freshly minted Nobel Prize for his contributions in inventing the transistor, Shockley launched Shockley Semiconductor is his home town of Palo Alto, California. The well-funded start-up had its choice of the finest technical minds in the world all anxious to develop and commercialize its founder's ground-breaking theories and ideas. Such was the caliber of the team put together by Shockley that one observer described it as "the greatest collection of electronic genius ever assembled". Yet despite its vast promise, Shockley Semiconductor never took flight.
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The Transition Master July 16, 2009
An Interview with Robert Glegg, CEO of 2Source Manufacturing. Robert Glegg founded Glegg Water Conditioning, Inc. in 1978. Over the next two decades he built the Guelph, Ontario-based water treatment firm to a $150mm per year powerhouse before selling it to General Electric in 1999.
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Never Ever Quit! June 28, 2009
An Interview with Castek Founders Fay and Yung Wu - Castek Software was founded in 1990 by siblings Yung and Fay Wu, along with a third partner who exited the business in 1999. Initially funded with $60,000 in credit card debt, the partners nurtured the firm into a successful and profitable international enterprise software company, with revenues approaching $40mm, and double that in committed order backlog. The founders risked it all and raised $70mm over three major financing rounds in an effort to become the leading insurance software vendor in the market.
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Be Very Careful When "Cleaning Up" that Resume March 15, 2013
Last week we received an unsolicited resume from an executive whose experience caught our attention. As we entered his particulars into our database we found reference to prior dealings with him some 5 years ago
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On Headhunting and Buying Cars February 28, 2013
You and your significant other are in need of transportation. Too busy to shop around yet determined to make a good decision, you decide to hire a broker to help with the purchase. Though your present family consists of the two of you, both early in your careers, you see a future with children
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