Founder and CEO of Meyer Advisory Group, providing advisory and consultative services across a diverse range of business environments including public and private sectors, family enterprises, non-profit, real estate, high-tech and professional services industries. Providing counsel on a broad range of business issues, including:- HR and business strategic planning- Executive/leadership recruitment- Next generation development and succession planning- Talent acquisition and retention- Employee performance development and high potentials programs,- Executive compensation and total rewards- Business and family governance

As Vice-President, Human Resources, I was responsible for developing and leading the strategic aspects of Minto’s North American HRM mandate. This includes overall accountability for program design and delivery for leadership and employee development, recruitment and selection, retention and engagement, total rewards/compensation, benefits and pensions, and employee/labour relations for a diverse workforce of 1,250 employees ranging from apartment superintendents to large scale multi-use land development staff.Selected Accomplishments:• Part of a core executive team that led a strategic business transformation, in concert with a transition from a family-owned and operated company to family-owned, non-family managed. Realigned 5 distinct business units to 3, consolidated the shared services of HR, IT, Brand Strategy and Communications into a Corporate Services model, and defined the executive leadership structure and roles, including recruitment, selection and on-boarding of new executive team, all while maintaining and evolving the defining culture that drove the business success for 50+ years;• Initiated a series of programs that brought focus to the relationship between leadership excellence, employee engagement, customer satisfaction and business results, including a biennial Employee Engagement survey, an employee development curriculum with associated career development maps branded as CareerConnect, and a leadership development program based on defined leadership competencies and a 360 program to both assess and develop leadership skills;• In conjunction with the organization’s move to a more independent Board of Directors, formulated the originating mandate of the Compensation Committee, and became Secretary of the Committee which provides oversight to all aspects of Executive Compensation.

Built a core HR infrastructure from a purely reactive transactional processing unit to a robust and experienced HR service delivery model that embeds HR business partners in each business unit and geography supported by a Talent Acquisition team and centralized HR Operations for foundational services such as Compensation and Benefits, improving overall service levels and accessibility

• Worked with a cross section of private and public sector organizations in both Canada and the United States, leading and participating in engagements that focused on aligning the HRM mandate with the strategic business objectives, organizational change management and implementing a service delivery model that capitalized on ERP/IT infrastructure investments. • Assisted companies through the selection and evaluation of various corporate Information Systems;• Subject Matter Expert on emerging leading practices in HR management and service delivery transformation across various industry segments;• Clients included Seagate Technologies, American Express, Bank of Montreal, Bombardier Aerospace, International Order of Forestors, Honda Canada, Canadian Medical Protective Association, Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, International Development Research Council, CTV, and a consortium of local, provincial and federal organizations in Atlantic Canada.

• Responsible for managing MOSAID’s international HRM mandate, which included program design and delivery for recruitment, retention, employee learning and development, compensation, benefits and employee relations for 300 employees in 4 countries• Sat on the Board-level Compensation Committee, and the Senior Management team’s Monthly Business Review.

• Worked with a cross section of private public sector organizations in both Canada and the United States, leading and participating in engagements that focused on aligning the HRM mandate with the strategic business objectives, organizational change management and implementing a service delivery model that capitalized on ERP/IT infrastructure investments. Assisted companies through the selection and evaluation of various corporate Information Systems;• Subject Matter Expert on emerging leading practices in HRM and HR Service delivery transformation across various industry segments;• Clients included Seagate Technologies, American Express, Bank of Montreal, Bombardier Aerospace, International Order of Forestors, Honda Canada, Canadian Medical Protective Association, Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, International Development Research Council, CTV, and a consortium of local, provincial and federal organizations in Atlantic Canada.

Gerry held various positions of increasing responsibility in both public and private sector organizations, as both a Human Resources practitioner and a Consultant in Human Resources, Technology and Change Management.