About Leadership Source

Leadership Source is a unique firm of seasoned executives with deep roots in Western Canada who have been collaborating in business, executive search and leadership advisory services for well over twenty years.

What sets us apart? In addition to hiring hundreds of executives in our respective industries, each of our partners have:

  • served in C-suite roles,
  • reported to Boards,
  • served on Boards,
  • led their professional and industry bodies,
  • served in volunteer capacities in their communities, and
  • along the way been recognized with many accolades for doing what we love.

Who better to serve your needs for executive search and leadership extension services such as succession planning, internal talent assessment, leadership development, executive coaching, organizational effectiveness and board advisory services than those who have walked in your shoes?


Our partners have placed many executive leaders in jobs that they have retired from years later.

9.7 Years

The average tenure of CEO’s placed by our firm from 1997- 2013.

In 2006, we recognized the need for diversity and introduced a client scorecard that held us to account on our ability to bring gender, race, age, and geographic diversity to our candidate pools. About the same time, we invested as co-founders in an aboriginal search firm, a venture that spanned five years. We are committed to making sure that our clients have choice and that we leave no stone unturned in that process.


47.4 Percent

Percentage of successful candidates in the past year who self-identified as members of under-represented race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and/or age groups.


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Leadership Source is proud to be a member of the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants.

Members of the AESC are committed to the highest professional practices, acting in the best interests of their clients, candidates, the community-at-large, and our recruitment agencies’ profession. We proudly adhere to the Association’s Code of Professional Practice and follow their common outline.

Leadership Source President, Holly Hetherington, is also a Fellow Certified Management Consultant. The CMC designation is the profession’s only international certification mark, recognized in over 40 countries, and is held by all Leadership Source Partners. It represents a commitment to the highest standards of management consulting and adherence to the ethical canons of the profession.

Meet our Team

Contact us today to discuss your organization’s needs.