Experience

Business Sherpa Group

• Canada
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Human Resources Consultant

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Optimizing my ability to quickly understand business strategies and build trusted partnerships, to provide consulting support to organizations with a critical need to enable business through people and culture strategies, both from a short term and on-going basis. Clients include: Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC): short term engagement where I was able to successfully fulfill critical talent acquisition needs; support learning and development strategies and enable HR operations including onboarding and orientation, benefits management and supporting administration of key processes Pauktuutit Inuit Women's Group (PIWG): part-time engagement, as Sr HR prime, working in partnership with the leadership team to support the organizations growth by developing capacity to adopt and succeed during times of change. To date, I have successfully engaged the organization in completing a cultural assessment, consulted with the leadership team to redefine and adopt strategies that put people at the centre of the business strategy. - Defined opportunities for organizational effectiveness starting with validation of business strategy and priorities, definition of values and core competencies that will be critical to the business success, validation of organization structure including review of all job descriptions and work processes and tools to support the future direction - Exploring total compensation programs as critical to attract and retain key talent at PIWC



TELUS

• Canada
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Human Resources Director

  • Oct 2010 - Jul 2019

  Served as multi-disciplinary trusted business partner, executive coach, and Human Resources prime with responsibility most recently for TELUS Business Solutions East Sales and National Partner Solutions Teams (Marketing, Sales, Finance, Operations). Additionally, over the past nine years, I have supported TELUS' national B2B sales teams and Business Solutions East Client Service organizations. The various roles allowed me to leveraged business acumen to operate as a member of the executive team to develop business strategies and employ core teams in development and execution of the people plan. As a result of effective partnership with business leaders and people and culture support resources, successfully delivered on key priorities including: - achieving double digit growth in team-member engagement - creating a culture of customer focused sales force - member of team that developed and implemented TELUS Sales Academy. - driving improvement in sales results by re-imagining the National Sales Performance program - recognized in multiple years with nomination for innovation and exceptional leadership



TELUS Communications

• Dir-Human Resources

  • 2001 - Oct 2010

  Embraced a passion for making a difference through personal and team leadership in contributing to the success of the Sales and Customer Service Team, National Security Solutions Team, and National Small Business Organization. Led a small team and facilitated as multi-disciplinary consulting team of HR professionals. Leveraged expertise in people practices to support teams in eastern Canada across a broad portfolio including Sales, Marketing, Operations, Business Transformation, and Partner Solutions. Prime to execute talent acquisition strategies: Recruitment prime for 1st eastern contact centre build-up Acted as acquisition prime for PSINet Canada in transaction with TELUS: Successfully transitioned PSINet Canada to new parent company with systematic approach to key talent identification and retention to sustain and grow the business.



PSINet

• HR Consultant

  • 1998 - 2001



Fulcrum Technologies

• Human Resources Advisor

  • 1989 - 1999