What started out as an interest in forestry and landscape management, has progressed into a passion for managing exceptional operations and people. Throughout my career in the Forest Industry, many different challenges have come my and my team’s way, whether it be working through starting up new contractors, growing wood supplies in a private market, leading teams through significant changes, driving employee engagement, immigration of workers, working with stakeholders around forest management practices, or managing a processing facility through the daily challenges of COVID. Learning and growing through these scenarios have helped shape me into the leader I am today. In my current role as Regional Manager, I am responsible for the operation of a 115 million board foot sawmill with a unionized workforce of 155 people, and 350K GMTON woodlands operation working with multiple landowners across Nova Scotia.