Rahmat Costas Email & Phone Number

Guelph, ON, CA

Israel

Responsible for leading the employee services team and managing every aspect of the employment process at the Baha’i World Centre, including Learning and Development, Recruitment and Hiring, Payroll, Employer-Employee Relations, Employment Labour Law, Employee Onboarding and Offboarding, Employee Rewards and Recognition, and Employment Budget

Toronto, Ontario

• Responsible to spearhead human resource best practices and the implementation of learning programs and certifications to ignite learning, inspire discovery, and trigger individual long-lasting transformation of groups.
• Help enable teams and organizational success by diagnosing strategy and combining structure, people, culture, values, behaviours and relationships into a wider integrated ecosystem.
• Work with organizations to help them identify needs, assess, develop, and retain talent through the implementation of a learning organization and key foundational learning programs such as Employee Onboarding.
• Partner with NGOs internationally to provide remote and accessible multi-language programs for individuals and communities on Leadership Transformation, Remote Work Efficiency, Change Management, Empathy & Kindness.

Mississauga, Ontario

• Member of the HR Executive Leadership Team (HRELT).
• Responsible to drive the strategic & operational direction, philosophy, and methodology of Learning and Development at PointClickcare.
• Partnered and collaborated with the business, HR leaders and HRBPs to identify learning solutions and processes that aligned with the goals of the organization.
• Hired, developed, and led a large team of learning professionals with a wide range of educational, technical and development expertise including facilitators, instructional designers, performance consultants.
• Managed 1.2M L&D annual budget including vendor negotiation contracts, employee expenses, content development and outsourcing, team development, employees training, rewards, travel, tools, and technology.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Responsible for spearheading the global learning transformation at OpenText Corporation (large Canadian software company)
• Hired, developed, and led a worldwide team of learning professionals with a wide range of educational, technical and development expertise.
• Established learning best practices & standards that aligned with the corporate needs of the organization and towards the formation of a learning culture
• Directed the internal development of 1500+ high quality blended programs including eLearning, Instructor-led, and webinars for internal sales, partners, employees, and customers across the globe.
• Involved as a key team player in several impactful Human Resources (HR) programs for the organization such as Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Reward & Recognition, Succession Planning, and Merger &.
• Worked alongside HRBPs to gather needs from the business to design and develop successful and impactful learning programs such as Corporate Onboarding, Leadership, Change Management, Diversity & Inclusion, Sales.

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Contract position with the aim to stablish a learning philosophy, best practices, tools, and team within the organization to close the learning gap of employees.
• Project Managed the implementation of a learning management system and its integration with PeopleSoft.
• Developed curriculum and certification courses for all employees.
• Served as mentor and development coach for employees and leaders within the organization.
• In Partnership with the HR team developed a performance consulting model to gather needs from the business and create programs that align with the goals of the organization.
• Conducted an in-depth evaluation of several learning management systems.

• Directed technical and operations personnel in the implementation of a learning environment, including 5 Instructor-led, 10 eLearning and 2 certification programs including a certification curriculum for all leaders.
• Managed and directed evaluation strategy, design, development production and maintenance of the overall e-Learning infrastructure.
• Involved very closely with external and internal clients to produce corporate needs assessment, service proposals, and project managed large IT projects.
• Controlled the operations of internal and external projects and clients.

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Managed technical personnel in the dynamic and static development of web sites, learning & development initiatives, and the design of customized applications for small enterprises.
• Managed the the development of distance education programs using web design and CD ROM delivery

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