2024 Impact Awards winner: Muskoka Brewery

For three years, Muskoka Brewery has been a Gold Level certificate holder for Gender Parity with the Women in Governance organization. 

The brewery strives to be an organization where people of all genders have the chance to succeed, rise in the ranks and to lead the way within the company and the industry, as an example of gender equity in action. 

This designation and the brewery’s ongoing efforts matter to the organization and the communities it serves as a way of demonstrating that everyone is welcomed, valued and involved. 

The designation requires a strategy of governance and vision to show that its policies, practices, decision-making and more are equitable, resulting in progressive representation of women and men. 

The company also needed to show it acted upon what it believed and show results for steps taken, namely progression towards equity or parity in the distribution of women to men in terms of promotion, recruitment and compensation. 

“Our future connection to living our beliefs (is) to continue to demonstrate that, as an employer, Muskoka Brewery remains committed to ensuring that gender parity plays a role in all staffing decisions and that equitability is found, demonstrated and lived in all departments,” explains Gavin Whitehead, channel manager—grocery, export & emerging retail channel.