Canada
Strategic HR Leader with 10+ years of experience leading transformations, optimizing talent strategies, and fostering diverse, high-performing cultures. A trusted partner to senior leaders, skilled in aligning HR strategies with business goals to fuel growth and employee success. Key achievements include: ● Promoted 6X within tenure due to high performance ● Leading a global HRIS transformation for 10K employees ● Retaining 98% of top technical talent through innovative programs ● Delivering $1M in cost savings via organizational redesign
➢ Direct all facets of HR for a highly complex organization with 10K+ employees and managers, acting as a business partner working closely with the business unit senior leadership executive team of 20+ leaders. Served as a trusted advisor to leadership teams by providing strategic guidance on workforce planning, employee relations, organizational restructuring, and talent management initiatives within a highly unionized environment. ➢ HR Strategy: Partnered with senior leadership across Transmission, Stations and Corporate functions to identify workforce and organizational challenges, implementing HR strategies that improved operational alignment, strengthened succession planning, and supported enterprise transformation initiatives across a workforce of 10K+ employees ➢ Program Management: Drove development and execution of strategic, HR initiatives that deepened employee engagement, optimized productivity, and fueled company growth. Managed end to end delivery of strategic HR programs focused on employee engagement, workforce planning and leadership enablement, contributing to improved retention, enhanced productivity, and stronger business partnership outcomes across unionized and corporate environments ➢ Talent Management: Led a career progression program (Distinguished Engineer Program) that recognized skills and contributions of outstanding engineers, resulting in retaining 98% of top talent since 2022. ➢ HRIS Transformation: Led HRIS transformation to launch new human capital management platform (HR2GO) impacting 10K employees, developing and delivering robust communications and training programs based on change management best practices. ➢ HR Leadership: Led team of 20+ cross-functional leaders in creating and implementing diversity and inclusion strategy across global organization. Introduced a new coaching program focused on career advancement for emerging Black and South Asian talent, increasing a sense of belonging for 15+ individual employees.
Promoted within 3 months to HRBP to collaborate with 14 global business leaders on designing and executing best-in-class HR strategies, solutions, and programs that support critical business objectives for organizations with 10K+ employees. ➢ Organizational Design: Supported organizational restructuring initiatives including workforce realignment, recruitment planning and service model changes. HR advisory support within a multi-union environment, including policy interpretation, employee relations and workforce planning. ➢ Change Management: Leveraged key success factors, including change management, compensation, performance management, employee engagement, and equity, diversity, and inclusion, to inform and guide solutions. ➢ Engagement: Led projects related to employee engagement, consultation and organizational effectiveness across multiple business units resulting in increase in employee participation from 85% to 91%.
Promoted within 30 days to lead global, large-scale initiatives that drive positive, transformational change to advance business and build shareholder value. Provided strategic HR leadership and direction for global organization with 10K+ employees. ➢ Recruitment Strategy: Directed high volume workforce planning and recruitment strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic, partnering with hospital leadership to rapidly staff vaccination clinics, screening operations, and critical support functions across multiple sites within a 10K+ employee healthcare system. ➢ Training and Development: Led cross-functional collaboration with health & safety, facilities and clinical leaders to design and implement workforce training, redeployment protocols and safe-work procedures, ensuring operational continuity and compliance with evolving public health regulations attended by >95% of eligible attendees.
Promoted within 12 months to oversee all facets of HR for 7500 employee global organization while working with project management office and senior leaders to identify and optimize opportunities for global business expansion and cost reduction. ➢ HR Leadership: Provided thought leadership on tools for automating core HR processes. Formed and executed change management strategies to support launch of new performance management and training and development systems globally. ➢ Organizational Design: Successfully led organization through complex, transformational outsourcing of physical securities vault, including transition of resources and reduction in force. ➢ Recognition: Guided formation of global recognition program for 1,200 employees across various functions, levels, and locations.