OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2016. Sherri Stevens and The Jeffery Group Ltd. (TJG) announced today the purchase of TJG from its founder Pamela Jeffery. TJG, founded as a consulting firm in 1994, created the Women's Executive Network (WXN) in 1997 and the Canadian Board Diversity Council in 2009. WXN is the home of Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards and Ireland's Most Powerful Women: Top 25 Awards.

"With leading female leadership and diversity brands in Canada, Ireland and London, UK, and a strong 20-person team, TJG is a great addition to my group of companies," said Sherri Stevens, President, Stevens Resource Group Inc. (SRG). "This gives us an excellent platform for introducing our service offerings to current and prospective clients. With existing business ties in the US, I look forward to building on the success of WXN and the Council and expanding these brands into the US market as well as advancing our footprint in Europe." 

SRG is an award-winning, North American workforce management company with eight locations in Canada and the US. SRG consults on strategies for talent acquisition, training and development, search, HR and operations as well as executive coaching. Sherri Stevens is a 2007 and 2008 WXN Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner in the Entrepreneurs category, RBC Entrepreneur of the Year Momentum Award Winner and has been named to the Profit/Chatelaine W100 list nine years in a row. 

"At WXN, we inspire smart women like Sherri Stevens to lead. It is fitting that a Top 100 Award Winner will take WXN and the Council to the next level. I am very proud of what my team and I have built. We have changed the conversation about the strategic importance of board diversity and women in leadership not only here in Canada but globally," said Pamela Jeffery. "I will shift from my day-to-day responsibilities as CEO back to my consulting roots. I will remain actively involved with WXN and the Council as Founder, guiding them and other organisations in the areas of leadership training and board diversity."