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Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Hired to build out People function and practices and improve culture as well as grow the company. Promoted to VP within 6 months.
• Provide guidance and counsel to C-Suite and Executive team related to people strategy, development, organizational change, and performance.
• Build up all practices and processes and create all operational foundations such as global compensation framework, performance program, talent review, People operations, benefits and Total Wellbeing, Diversity, Equity.
• Certified (2023) and recertified (2024) Canada and US and expanded certification to Croatia as ‘Great Place to Work’ with nearly 90% employee participation and 86% promoter score.
• Built Global Hiring Playbook, and expanded into 4 countries – UK, IRL, Australia, and including building out a new Croatia Tech Hub from 0 to 35 in 5 months.
• Built a Talent Team and eliminated nearly $750K / ann in staffing agency fees, reduced cost per hire by 50% and improved quality of hire and employee retention by 35%.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Toronto, ON, CA

Hybrid People & Operations role, focused on building a FinTech start up poised for growth. Scope includes project management; operational strategy and growth planning; organizational design and effectiveness; setting up all operational process. and full scope for people operations.

Toronto, ON, CA

Fractional People & Culture / People Operations consulting, and advisory services to support growth-oriented organizations, particularly in the tech space. Scope includes: strategy; business partnership; talent acquisition; people experience; talent management; diversity, equity, and inclusion; performance and development; total rewards; people relations.

Calgary, Alberta, CA

Promoted to Associate (2020). My primary goal was to help make DIALOG the best place it can be, to enable DIALOGers and DIALOG to have a positive impact in the built environment and in our communities. As the Head of HR / People, I lead a team of 6 covering all things People-related including strategy, talent acquisition, internal communications.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Canada Life is one of those amazing cultures where it feels like one big 'community'. The people are incredible and their purpose is so 'Canadian'. The company and leaders care about your wellbeing, and take a vested interest in your growth. My role was to lead the buildout and growth Digital Labs People programs and scaling the Labs as they expand and.

San Jose, California, US

Reporting to Global Head of HR. Scope: 1,200 employees globally (US, Canada, India, UK, Sweden, Australia); SaaS; Artificial Intelligence Chatbot; customer engagement software; backed by Sequoia Capital. Lead the People function for Canada; Head of North American / EMEA & APAC Talent Acquisition; and, Global HR business partner for the Professional.

Houston, Texas, US

Reporting to the U.S. SVP HR, I was the Head of HR for Canada and lead several centralized functions. I operated as a 'hands on' leader, including North American talent acquisition, candidate experience, onboarding, total rewards, talent management, full spectrum systems / HRMS implementation and integration and operations, metrics / analytics, KPIs.

Toronto, ON, CA

Held Senior HR partner and project manager roles with technology and operations teams, for design /implementation of business / people initiatives related to culture and change management, organizational design and effectiveness, communications, staffing and retention, employee relations, and talent management. A few specifics include: HR Partner and.

ePod.com, a trail blazing SaaS / Internet advertising software startup, raised $18M from firms such as XDL Capital, Brand Equity Partners, U.S. Trust & Macromedia and was eventually acquired by Lycos in 2001, and shuttered. It was an amazing opportunity to build a creative team and tight knit culture. Reporting into the Director, HR as Recruitment Lead to.

Commerce

Hr Management, Human Resources, Hr Management