TITLE:  VP Human Resources 

LOCATION: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
​RELOCATE: Yes
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Executive Candidate Profile

A highly motivated and committed business leader with proven success leading Human Resources in high growth organizations in Canada, and internationally. Quickly builds credibility and trust with executives which leads to strong relationships allowing for collaboration across multiple business units in highly dynamic organizations. A strategic thinker who quickly adapts to different industries and maturity, leverages best practices from each, and creates pragmatic people, processes and systems solutions which promote organizational effectiveness. 
 
Insights gained as a former nationally ranked athlete and coach provide the foundation upon which a reputation was built for building, developing and leading high-performance teams within organizations who are engaged and passionate about achieving shared goals.

Recognition / Achievements

  • Collaborated and facilitated a small to mid-size business technology strategy which transformed disruptive challenges in the marketplace into opportunities for successful growth. Strategy painted a clear picture for growing the company in the future in terms of both revenue and cost reduction, and aligned all Human Resources programs and practices for successful execution.
  • Successfully scaled mid-sized Engineering and Construction company for growth by restructuring the organization, aligning talent management programs (L&D, Succession, Performance management, Talent Acquisition), and total rewards program that included Executive comp, STI, LTI, and benefits to drive a performance based culture based on teamwork and collaboration.
  • Led the Human Resources process on multi-million dollar acquisition with extremely tight deadlines, developing procedures for assessing and hiring 500 employees, revising organizational structure to accommodate 40% increase in headcount, and collaborated with acquisition partner on change management strategies throughout integration
  • Project Lead for an “Operational Excellence” business model designed to manage costs, optimize business processes cross functionally that resulted in improving eleven major procedures that allowed them to operate efficiently and effectively.
  • Designed and executed the three year Human resources strategic plan to support the long term vision of a the organization, that addressed organizational needs and ensured a consistent application across operating divisions, where appropriate
  • Designed and initiated a comprehensive employee engagement and retention strategy for Midstream oil and Gas organization to address the corporate offices 27% turnover rate, reducing to 8% within two years saving the organization $4 million annually.

Education / Designations

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Major Human Resources, Minor Finance) – University of Calgary
  • Queen’s School of Business Executive Development Program        
  • Richard Ivey School of Business, Executive Development Program
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