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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Leveraged quantitative and qualitative people data to drive high performance and positive culture at Rogers - Canada's largest telecommunications company Managed the preparation and execution of Rogers annual employee survey to 25,000+ employees across the organization and used external/internal research to improve survey experience, item validity, and data quality Extracted insights from the survey using advanced analytics – identified key drivers of employee engagement; leveraged multiple data sources to connect engagement with other key people metrics (e.g., performance, compensation, turnover) Provided business leaders (including C-suite executives) evidence-based recommendations to improve employee experience (e.g., Inclusion & Diversity, Technology, Innovation, Well-being & Collaboration)

Guelph, Ontario

On a research team responsible for creating immersive e-learning, organizational change, and customer engagement experiences responsible for solving business problems and elevating business performance.Work specialized in behavioural change in individuals, in organizations, and in the public. Areas of focus included: employee experience, performance management, unconscious bias & equity, and leadership & management training.Worked with global 500 companies, small to medium-sized enterprises, public sector organizations, and non-profits.Clients included: The Co-operators, Royal Canin, Mazda Canada, St. Joseph’s Health Care,Osgoode Professional Development, Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Bar Association, Human Rights Campaign Foundation.Responsible for everything from experimental design, instructional design, qualitative and quantitative research, survey design, client interviews, and applying teachings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to help solve client business problems.🔸Research 🔸Data Analysis 🔸Prototyping 🔸Design 🔸E-Learning 🔸Web-based Learning 🔸Job Aids 🔸 Training 🔸Workshops 🔸Consulting 🔸 Psychology 🔸Neuroscience 🔸Behavioural Economics

Hamilton, Ontario

I worked under Dr. Scott Watter in the department of psychology, neuroscience, and behaviour. In general, my research uses cognitive science methods to investigate cognitive control, attention, and memory.Designed over 45 experiments from start to finish. This included: programming experiments, running participants through experiments, analyzing data, writing academic papers, presenting findings at conferences or departmental talks.Mentored over 13 honours thesis students which included overseeing/managing their final year-long research projectConsulted for Ph.D. students and professors at the DeGroot Business School on how to apply cognitive neuropsychological methods (EEG, EKG, EMG, and SCR) to consumer decision-making research🔸 Python 🔸 SPSS 🔸 Illustrator 🔸 Photoshop 🔸 R 🔸 Microsoft Office 🔸 Research 🔸 Data Analysis 🔸 Neuroscience 🔸 Psychology 🔸 Conference Presentations 🔸 Scientific Writing 🔸 Research Methodology 🔸 Student Mentorship 🔸 Grant writing 🔸 Literature review 🔸 EEG 🔸 Critical thinking 🔸Public speaking 🔸 Experimental design

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Teaching assistant for 10 McMaster University courses of ~250 – 300 students per course.Held tutorials where I was responsible for going over lecture material for ~ 30 students per week.An occasional guest lecturer for several courses.Held office hours where I would re-teach lecture material, hold exam reviews, and hold exam preparation. Helped run a 4th-year seminar course, instructing students how to conduct grant writing.Created exam/quiz questions.Ran midterm and final exams for every course.Aided with curriculum development.Teaching assistant for the courses:- 2H03 (Human Cognition)- 4J03 (Inquiry in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour)- 3VV3 (Human Memory)- 2AA3 (Child Development)- 2NF3 (Clinical Neuroscience) -2XA3 (Perception & Cognition)-3AC3 (The Psychology of Human Sexuality)🔸 Student mentorship 🔸 Microsoft Office 🔸 Presentation feedback 🔸 Scientific writing feedback 🔸 Grant writing 🔸 Office hours 🔸 Presentations 🔸 Tutorials 🔸 Marking 🔸 Curriculum development 🔸 Blog posts 🔸 Invigilating 🔸 Exam/quiz creation

Toronto, Canada Area

PsychologyCompass is dedicated to helping people reach their optimal psychological performance. They leverage decades of psychology, behavioural economics, and neuroscience research and transform it into bite-sized lessons for workplace performance. As first contributor of PsychologyCompass.com, I worked closely with the CEO to design the structure of our content and develop premium and blog educational contentWrote all blog and premium content for the specializations: how to focus, effective learning, overcoming self-doubt, and developing resilience.This content accumulated to over 800 pages of actionable and scientific content that is easilydigestible for the laymanSignificantly contributed to all stages of initial product development, SEO, and Google Analytics effortsHelped design the first automated cognition coach which measures your abilities across key cognitive functions (i.e. focus, communication, overcoming anxiety, etc.)🔸Writer 🔸Researcher 🔸SEO 🔸Google Analytics 🔸Product Development 🔸Design 🔸Neuroscience 🔸Psychology 🔸Content Creation 🔸Data

Toronto, Canada Area

Big Rock Labs is a Canadian technology startup. They are the makers of the Reach app and LinkedIn Audit. Reach was a mobile app available in the Apple and Google Play stores. It has been featured on: TechCrunch, Mashable, Vulcan, iDigital Times, Business News Daily, IT Pro Portal, Techvibes, and Fox News.This app connected users with other like-minded professionals in their vicinityReceived over 10k downloads LinkedIn Audit is a service built to provide customers with a comprehensive audit of their LinkedIn profiles. This feedback will instruct customers on how to optimize their profiles for career and business development purposes.Conducted literature reviews, market research and designed surveys for the product team, and wrote promotional blog content for the marketing department🔸 Research 🔸 Data analysis 🔸 Blog writing 🔸 Product development

Toronto, Canada Area

I worked with Dr. Robert Mann and Dr. Christine Wickens at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. I was involved in two research projects investigating substance use, social influences and driving performance. 🔸 Research 🔸 Proposal writing 🔸 Manual preparation 🔸 Manuscript preparation 🔸 CAMH monitor 🔸 Data Analysis 🔸 Research collaboration 🔸 Literature review

I completed my honours thesis project with Dr. Lana Trick in the Drive Lab at the University of Guelph. Our research investigated whether having a history of drug use affects certain aspects of driving performance, working memory and sensation seeking. I received the best poster award for my presentation of this research at the SONA conference 🔸 Research 🔸 Literature review 🔸 Data analysis 🔸 Driving simulator 🔸 Research Ethics Board 🔸 Manuscript preparation 🔸 Thesis writing 🔸 Student mentorship 🔸 SPSS 🔸 Microsoft office 🔸 Conference presentations 🔸 Research development 🔸 Collaboration 🔸 Critical thinking 🔸 Public speaking 🔸 Experimental design

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology, Neuroscience And Behaviour

Activities and Societies: GMCA Director of Education

Master Of Science Degree, Psychology, Neuroscience And Behaviour

Master'S Degree, Psychotherapy

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Behavioural Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: Women's Varsity Soccer