Montreal, November 4, 2025 – Humance is proud to announce the acquisition of The Humphrey Group, a Canadian firm recognized for its extensive expertise in leadership communication, along with Niagara Institute, a long-standing provider of practical leadership training programs.
These acquisitions mark a significant milestone in Humance’s growth strategy, expanding its national presence and enhancing its ability to deliver comprehensive leadership development solutions across the country. In joining forces with The Humphrey Group and Niagara Institute, Humance solidifies its ability to offer large-scale, high-impact leadership programs.
As part of the integration, Bart Egnal will join Humance’s Executive Committee while continuing as Managing Partner and CEO of The Humphrey Group and Niagara Institute. Gavin Brown, Executive Director of Niagara Institute, will also remain in his role to maintain continuity for clients and partners. Both brands will retain their names, ensuring a seamless client experience while teams collaborate to develop integrated offerings.
This acquisition brings together Humance’s expertise in talent assessment, leadership and team development, and organizational strategy with The Humphrey Group’s well-established background in leadership communication. Together, they offer organizations a single, trusted partner powerfully positioned to address their leadership needs from strategy to execution, helping leaders communicate with confidence, engage their teams, and drive sustainable performance.
These acquisitions align with Humance’s promise to its customers: to help them achieve their ambitions by challenging leaders and teams to make their organizations more human, successful, and sustainable.
About The Humphrey Group
The Humphrey Group is a recognized leader in leadership communication, offering a depth of expertise unmatched in the market. For over 35 years, the company has developed leaders to become more inspiring and effective communicators, increasing their ability to drive action, build trust, and create alignment across their organizations. Guided by its purpose to teach and promote inspiring communication, The Humphrey Group believes that when individuals are inspired, they inspire others, resulting in greater engagement, stronger results, and enduring organizational success.
Solutions
- Leadership communication training and workshops
- Executive communication coaching
- Licensing
About Niagara Institute
Founded in 1971, Niagara Institute is dedicated to providing highly relevant learning experiences to the everyday leader. With a network of leading content partners and topics spanning leadership, communication, diversity and inclusion, and business acumen, the Institute is able to provide high potentials, people managers, seasoned leaders, and human resources teams the content they need when they need it, anywhere in the world.
About Humance
Founded in 1980, Humance is a dynamic business- and human-driven consulting firm. With 45 years of experience and 160 employees across Canada, we work at the intersection of business and people to help organizations of all sizes achieve their objectives by unlocking the full potential of their people and teams, making them more human, successful, and sustainable.
A Canadian industry leader and 100% Canadian-owned and -operated firm, Humance is known for delivering high-impact solutions and for providing a stimulating workplace tailored to the needs of its employees.
