Janelle Benjamin is the Founder of All Things Equitable Inc., a Greater Toronto Area-based Management Consulting Firm, addressing workplace inequities for all historically marginalized groups. It goes beyond diversity and inclusion and offers creative solutions for leadership development and employee engagement and education.What sets it apart from other diversity and inclusion firms, is that they have a thorough understanding of human rights law, equity, and barriers to inclusion, and they take an interdisciplinary approach to implementing systemic change.It provides organizations of all types and sizes with a range of services to transform workplaces at the root and leave them diverse, inclusive, safe, and supporting the mental health and wellbeing of all employees.They make the journey to being equitable easy, engaging, and empowering for everyone. Janelle is a Juris Doctor who has worked in government, in professional regulation, and in the not-for-profit sector since 2006. She has extensive experience setting policies; assessing practices; monitoring and enforcing compliance; and tracking and reporting progress both in regulatory bodies and in fledgling government agencies/divisions tasked with oversight for the implementation of ground-breaking diversity and inclusion legislation and initiatives like the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act for people with disabilities and the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act for professional and highly-skilled newcomers. She also has experience leading and championing corporate diversity and inclusion strategies. Before founding her own company, Janelle worked for a Regional Municipality in the road-safety sector as Manager, Initiatives, Performance Improvement and Collections, improving access to justice in Courts hearing Provincial Offences Act matters, ensuring offenders' adherence to the Highway Traffic Act and the regulations, and leading a Business Operations team to actively collect accounts receivable on behalf of the provincial Attorney General.Specialties: Assessing/Auditing organizational practices; Creating Strategic Plans; Guiding Change Management Strategies; Executive Coaching; Program/Policy Development; Project Management; Case Management; Stakeholder Relations; Standards Development; Implementing Legislative Change; Monitoring & Enforcing Compliance; Improving Performance; Breaking barriers to Inclusion; Complaint Investigations; Labour Relations; Providing Best Practices for Human Rights, Equity, and Occupational Health and Safety.
Listed skills include Legal Research, Policy, Litigation, Legal Writing, and 46 others.