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Toronto, Canada Area

A premier employee-owned global engineering and environmental sciences professional services firm with 9,000+ people. Ranked among the “50 Best Companies to Work for in Canada” (Platinum member), one of “Canada's Top 50 Best Managed Private Companies” and a “Financial Post Top 10 Employers”. Reported to the Global VP Human Development with a mandate to create a global corporate Human Development function for this highly-matrix-structured company with seven regions and offices in 48 countries. Supported the development of "One Golder", a global HR management strategy and execution plan; developed and implemented new programs and initiatives to transform HR related to talent acquisition, talent management and branding.• Developed new business focused HR management frameworks, strategies and guidelines focused on that were synthesized in a concise and easy to communicate way that the organization could understand and translate into action• Catalyst and champion of new approaches, systems and design thinking and integration of functional corporate services silos affecting corporate wide decision-making (effectiveness) • Developed and implemented global talent acquisition and talent management programs that were focused on end-user experience and exceeding stakeholder expectations that were more effective and efficient at achieving their strategic intent • Led the selection, procurement and global deployment of a new recruitment management system and branded web recruitment marketing system • Coached and mentored senior business development leaders and operations managers to equip them to have the right conversations and to be more successful in their roles• Established and led the global recruiting team

Mississauga, Ontario

Led the evolution of HR from an administrative function to one more strategically aligned with the business in the Ontario Region with 800 - 1000 staff in 7 offices. As a member of the 5 person Canadian HD Strategy team established talent management priorities and initiatives for the Canadian operating company focused on strengthening the basics, manager excellence and talent management programs focused on maintaining employee engagement during rapid growth. Established and led the national recruiting team in Canada.

Mississauga, Ontario

Accountable for the performance of the environmental site assessment and remediation business unit consisting of a multi-disciplinary team of up to 30 engineers and scientists. Initiated and led an office wide Balanced Score Card People Team focused on improving communication and supporting the operations team on the implementation of the people strategy.

Mississauga, Ontario

Responsible for the full lifecycle of environmental site decommissioning projects for national and multinational industrial, mining and legal sector clients including client development, project management, program design and implementation and staff mentoring and development. A strong client advocate that provided exceptional client relationship and project management resulting in client loyalty and increase in sole source project opportunities and long term revenue growth. Leveraged corporate brand reputation to expand service offering resulting in significant increase in project opportunities, increase client base and revenue across multiple operating companies.

Recognized for leadership abilities and was made laboratory manager shortly after being hired. Increased lab revenue by providing exceptional client service. Supervised high profile geo-environmental projects requiring client relationship management, contractor supervision, data collection, analysis and reporting.