COVID-19 changed the nature of work, practically overnight. But, how has this global pandemic permanently changed our work environments for the future?
Location
ON24 Webinars
Dates
2:00 pm – 3:30pm ET
November 10, 2020
November 24, 2020
January 5, 2021
January 19, 2021
2:00 pm – 3:30pm ET
9 CPD Hours
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Human Resources professionals working in partnership with other leaders must maximize the impact of the organizations’ human capital. Today, achieving this while fostering a safe and engaging work environment is paramount to ensuring the sustainable success of every organization.
A number of changes, such as remote work, are here to stay, and HR is as critical ever. New investments, technological upgrades, and upskilling workforces will be key as we develop the digital economy.
HRPA is pleased to partner with future foHRward to present this 6-part online learning program: Designing the Future Today which will help HR professionals and organizations visualize the future of work and adapt to a changing landscape.
We will address a number of key issues including the health and safety of workers, remote work, automation, human leadership and mental health.
Join the discussion and help your organization adapt to the new normal.
- Get the latest insights from experts
- Learn about best practices from members of the community
- Identify practical takeaways that you can introduce into your organization
- Network with fellow HR professionals
Agenda
Session 1
Welcome to the new world of work
An appreciation of the dynamic, VUCA world we are part of is critical for HR professionals. This interactive session will provide participants with context around the trends impacting the world of work and the specific impact on organizations. Now is the time to act.
Speakers
Ricardo Wagner
Cindy Bush
Session 2
Building the worker ecosystem
Clarity around requisite future skills is essential for workforce planning and talent acquisition. In this session, learn to revamp talent management processes, engaging a broader worker ecosystem to meet the dynamic needs of organizations.
Speakers
Edie L. Goldberg
Session 3
Enabling talent to get the work done – how purpose enables leadership in the new world of work
In this session, leaders will learn how critical their role is in creating an employee experience that aligns with organizational purpose.
Speakers
David Lapin
Ashira Lapin Gobrin
Session 4
The learning agile organization
In this session learn the importance of developing growth or a continuous learning mindset. This is vital for organizational success in this new world of work, facing continued disruption.
Speakers
Bianca Baumann
Nuno Gonçalves
Irina McQuade
Laurine Peters
Session 5
Wellbeing in the workplace
Wellbeing has become a critical part of the employee experience in order to increase engagement and productivity within our workforce. In this session, we will explore the criticality of having a holistic approach to wellbeing by considering the physical, mental and financial elements.
Speakers
Christine Burych
Emmanuel Jal
Session 6
From ideas to action
Although discussion around concepts is fascinating; it’s important to move from concepts to adoption. In this session, you will learn how to take the skills newly acquired and put it in to practice.
Speakers
Kareen Proudian
Dylan Gordon
Cindy Bush
Val Duffey
Kris Tierney
Series Moderators
Mark Edgar
Co-Founder, future foHRward
As Co-Founder of future foHRward, Mark’s global experience and deep industry knowledge allow him to bring a fresh perspective to the current challenges of Human Resources (HR) Leaders. Mark also runs his own consulting business, Goat Rodeo Project, focused on helping organizations and people thrive in the new world of work. Most recently he worked for RSA for over 8 years in the role of CHRO & Senior Vice President, Human Resources with overall responsibility for HR and Communications for the Canadian business.
Previously, Mark was based in the UK as Head of Human Resources within Centrica Plc; a major energy company operating in the UK under the British Gas brand. He has also worked for BSkyB, a TV, broadband and phone company, in an HR role responsible for their operational business units and customer-facing teams. Mark is a Board member of SC Network.
Naomi Titleman Colla
Co-Founder, future foHRward
As Co-Founder of future foHRward, Naomi brings an unmatched wealth of experience and perspective to developing leading-edge content, events, and thought leadership for HR Leaders. She is also the Founder of Collaborativity Inc., a Toronto-based consultancy focused on driving progressive talent strategy in the new world of work and a monthly contributor to the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. She has proven success leading teams and collaborating with senior executives and Boards of Directors to develop and implement creative strategies to maximize employee engagement and, ultimately, drive business impact.
From 2010-2016, Naomi held multiple HR roles at American Express, most recently as VP and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of Amex Canada, responsible for all aspects of the end-to-end employee experience for the Canadian business. Prior to American Express, Naomi spent 10 years consulting with Financial Services Institutions, as a member of Deloitte’s Enterprise Risk Services and Human Capital practices, in New York.
Naomi holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor of commerce degree from McGill University. She’s the winner of the 2016 HR Leader of the Year award (Canadian HR Awards), the 2016 HR Professional of the Year award (National HR Awards) and was named one of HR Reporter’s 2016 Top 25 HR Professionals of the Year.
Mark Edgar
Co-Founder, future foHRward
As Co-Founder of future foHRward, Mark’s global experience and deep industry knowledge allow him to bring a fresh perspective to the current challenges of Human Resources (HR) Leaders. Mark also runs his own consulting business, Goat Rodeo Project, focused on helping organizations and people thrive in the new world of work. Most recently he worked for RSA for over 8 years in the role of CHRO & Senior Vice President, Human Resources with overall responsibility for HR and Communications for the Canadian business.
Previously, Mark was based in the UK as Head of Human Resources within Centrica Plc; a major energy company operating in the UK under the British Gas brand. He has also worked for BSkyB, a TV, broadband and phone company, in an HR role responsible for their operational business units and customer-facing teams. Mark is a Board member of SC Network.
Naomi Titleman Colla
Co-Founder, future foHRward
As Co-Founder of future foHRward, Naomi brings an unmatched wealth of experience and perspective to developing leading-edge content, events, and thought leadership for HR Leaders. She is also the Founder of Collaborativity Inc., a Toronto-based consultancy focused on driving progressive talent strategy in the new world of work and a monthly contributor to the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. She has proven success leading teams and collaborating with senior executives and Boards of Directors to develop and implement creative strategies to maximize employee engagement and, ultimately, drive business impact.
From 2010-2016, Naomi held multiple HR roles at American Express, most recently as VP and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of Amex Canada, responsible for all aspects of the end-to-end employee experience for the Canadian business. Prior to American Express, Naomi spent 10 years consulting with Financial Services Institutions, as a member of Deloitte’s Enterprise Risk Services and Human Capital practices, in New York.
Naomi holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor of commerce degree from McGill University. She’s the winner of the 2016 HR Leader of the Year award (Canadian HR Awards), the 2016 HR Professional of the Year award (National HR Awards) and was named one of HR Reporter’s 2016 Top 25 HR Professionals of the Year.
Speakers Bios
Session 1 - Welcome to the new world of work
Ricardo Wagner
Accessibility Lead, Microsoft Canada
Ricardo Wagner is the Accessibility Lead for Microsoft Canada. He believes technology elevates the education, employment, and living standards for billions of people around the world, especially people with disabilities. It’s his personal mission to play a role in that transformation. He is the Microsoft’s 2019 Hackathon Grand Prize Winner, awarded as the most influential Accessibility Advocate worldwide for Microsoft in 2020, and won several recognitions including 2019 The Jim Flaherty Award for Leadership in Accessibility and Inclusion (Canada) and Microsoft’s Platinum Club in 2018.
Cindy Bush
Chief Human Resources Officer, Cineplex
Cindy Bush joined Cineplex in 2018 with more than 20 years of experience in strategy development, talent, total rewards, and culture transformation in the UK, France, the United States and Canada.
As Chief Human Resources Officer, Cindy is responsible for all aspects of Human Resources, including talent attraction, development and succession, organization design and effectiveness, total and executive compensation and human resources governance and reporting. She also leads work on Cineplex’s culture, workspace strategy and design, and creating a meaningful employee experience.
Prior to this role, Cindy has worked in companies ranging from 30 to over 100,000 employees, at organizations such as Foresters Financial, OMERS, CIBC, Capgemini and the BBC. She volunteers with the Michael Garron Hospital Foundation on the donations committee, and is the author of “Project Managing Change,” a global best-seller in the Financial Times series.
Ricardo Wagner
Accessibility Lead, Microsoft Canada
Ricardo Wagner is the Accessibility Lead for Microsoft Canada. He believes technology elevates the education, employment, and living standards for billions of people around the world, especially people with disabilities. It’s his personal mission to play a role in that transformation. He is the Microsoft’s 2019 Hackathon Grand Prize Winner, awarded as the most influential Accessibility Advocate worldwide for Microsoft in 2020, and won several recognitions including 2019 The Jim Flaherty Award for Leadership in Accessibility and Inclusion (Canada) and Microsoft’s Platinum Club in 2018.
Cindy Bush
Chief Human Resources Officer, Cineplex
Cindy Bush joined Cineplex in 2018 with more than 20 years of experience in strategy development, talent, total rewards, and culture transformation in the UK, France, the United States and Canada.
As Chief Human Resources Officer, Cindy is responsible for all aspects of Human Resources, including talent attraction, development and succession, organization design and effectiveness, total and executive compensation and human resources governance and reporting. She also leads work on Cineplex’s culture, workspace strategy and design, and creating a meaningful employee experience.
Prior to this role, Cindy has worked in companies ranging from 30 to over 100,000 employees, at organizations such as Foresters Financial, OMERS, CIBC, Capgemini and the BBC. She volunteers with the Michael Garron Hospital Foundation on the donations committee, and is the author of “Project Managing Change,” a global best-seller in the Financial Times series.
Session 2 - Building the worker ecosystem
Edie L. Goldberg
President, E. L. Goldberg & Associates
Edie Goldberg, Ph.D. is the President of E.L. Goldberg & Associates in Menlo Park, California. She has specialized in talent management and organization effectiveness for over 30 years. Her practice is focused on HR strategy and designing HR processes and programs to attract, engage, develop and retain employees. Before starting her own practice 19 years ago, she was a global thought leader at Towers Perrin.
Dr. Goldberg has published and presented at numerous conferences on the future of work, performance management, career management, and strategic workforce planning. She is the co-author of The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity (April, 2020). She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Albany. She is the Past Chairperson for HR People + Strategy (HRPS), is on the Board of the SHRM Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
Edie L. Goldberg
President, E. L. Goldberg & Associates
Edie Goldberg, Ph.D. is the President of E.L. Goldberg & Associates in Menlo Park, California. She has specialized in talent management and organization effectiveness for over 30 years. Her practice is focused on HR strategy and designing HR processes and programs to attract, engage, develop and retain employees. Before starting her own practice 19 years ago, she was a global thought leader at Towers Perrin.
Dr. Goldberg has published and presented at numerous conferences on the future of work, performance management, career management, and strategic workforce planning. She is the co-author of The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity (April, 2020). She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Albany. She is the Past Chairperson for HR People + Strategy (HRPS), is on the Board of the SHRM Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
Session 3 -Enabling talent to get the work done – how purpose enables leadership in the new world of work
David Lapin
David Lapin, Lapin International, Inc
Rabbi, Educator and author of Lead by Greatness.
David’s entire career has been dedicated to aligning the lives of individuals, organizations and teams to their purpose and values creating oneness between the inner human spirit, and outer performance success. He founded Lapin International in 1989 and has since worked with major corporations and their leaders in complex cultural and racial environments around the world. He worked with Nelson Mandela and his government in transforming South African business culture, with the US government in its Asian territories and have trained over 150,000 law enforcement officers. He authored the Code of Business Ethics for South Africa.
Ashira Lapin Gobrin
Chief People Officer, Wave Financial Inc
Ashira is Chief People Officer at Wave. An Alchemist of Organizations, she works to turn potential into performance through Purpose, Values and Great Leadership. She blends a get-it-done performance style with the ability to bring a vision to life and fuels enterprise-wide execution that drives employee engagement, retention, revenue, and growth. She has over 20 years experience leading fast growth technology companies. Currently 100% focused on building a world class, award winning team driving exponential growth at Wave (recently acquired by H&R Block for over half a billion dollars), she previously led the scale and optimization of Vision Critical’s global operations through 300% growth and implemented an end-to-end government-level human resources transformation for the Government of Poarch Creek Indians.
David Lapin
David Lapin, Lapin International, Inc
Rabbi, Educator and author of Lead by Greatness.
David’s entire career has been dedicated to aligning the lives of individuals, organizations and teams to their purpose and values creating oneness between the inner human spirit, and outer performance success. He founded Lapin International in 1989 and has since worked with major corporations and their leaders in complex cultural and racial environments around the world. He worked with Nelson Mandela and his government in transforming South African business culture, with the US government in its Asian territories and have trained over 150,000 law enforcement officers. He authored the Code of Business Ethics for South Africa.
Ashira Lapin Gobrin
Chief People Officer, Wave Financial Inc
Ashira is Chief People Officer at Wave. An Alchemist of Organizations, she works to turn potential into performance through Purpose, Values and Great Leadership. She blends a get-it-done performance style with the ability to bring a vision to life and fuels enterprise-wide execution that drives employee engagement, retention, revenue, and growth. She has over 20 years experience leading fast growth technology companies. Currently 100% focused on building a world class, award winning team driving exponential growth at Wave (recently acquired by H&R Block for over half a billion dollars), she previously led the scale and optimization of Vision Critical’s global operations through 300% growth and implemented an end-to-end government-level human resources transformation for the Government of Poarch Creek Indians.
Session 4 - The learning agile organization
Bianca Baumann
Senior Learning Strategist and Director, Learning Experience
Bianca Baumann is a Senior Learning Strategist and Director, Learning Experience at GP Strategies, focusing on digital education success, combining L&D and digital marketing. Over time, she has developed processes and methodologies to help organizations meet their growth and revenue targets with the help of innovative L&D approaches, including digital transformations, onboarding and reskilling programs. She has spearheaded multiple projects in the marketing, automotive, financial and events industries, creating award-winning programs along the way. She shares her expertise in her blog and at global conferences, highlighting the importance of including disciplines outside L&D to help organizations build the workforce of the future. She teaches courses as part of the Learning Experience Design Certificate at OISE and published the eBook “The Little Black Book of Marketing and L&D”, a practical guide that helps integrate proven marketing techniques into L&D.
Nuno Gonçalves
Global Head of Strategic Capabilities Building
Nuno is a senior HR leader who is at the forefront of envisioning and driving Business / HR led transformations. He is an early pioneer in the move towards continuous transformation as a new reality. Nuno is currently the Global Head of Strategic Capabilities Building for Mars Inc, working on understanding the critical capabilities for the future and that the business strategy is fully aligned with the Mars University. Prior to this role Nuno for UCB, a bio-pharma company where he held different roles, as the HR VP for Neurology and as their Chief Learning Officer and Global Head of Talent Acquisition & Development. Before UCB Nuno was also Sanofi’s Chief Learning Officer. Apart from his Corporate role, Nuno is also part of the Board of Advisors and Senior Faculty for the Josh Bersin Academy as well as part of the Board of Advisors of an investment fund – Edge Investments, providing strategic HR expertise to startups in the portfolio and advising on potential investments from an HR perspective. He has recently co-founded an investment fund – Reaction – that was created by Stanford alumni to invest in companies that want to create a better world.
Irina McQuade
Senior Director, Learning & Executive Development
Irina McQuade started her career at Loblaw as a front line colleague where she learned the importance of customer service and found her passion for training. During her career, she has implemented many digital ‘firsts’ at Loblaw and she continues to strive toward innovation and agility in learning solutions that are meaningful, learner centric, deliver value to the organization and are scalable for Canada’s largest private sector employer.
Laurine Peters
HR Lead, Microsoft Canada Inc.
Laurine is a Human Resources professional with 20 years of corporate experience. She has a diverse background in Recruitment, HR Programs, Employee Relations, Organizational Capability and Management. She is a team motivator, strong communication and interpersonal skills. Passionate and dedicated on supporting both internal and external clients on their culture journey.
Bianca Baumann
Senior Learning Strategist and Director, Learning Experience
Bianca Baumann is a Senior Learning Strategist and Director, Learning Experience at GP Strategies, focusing on digital education success, combining L&D and digital marketing. Over time, she has developed processes and methodologies to help organizations meet their growth and revenue targets with the help of innovative L&D approaches, including digital transformations, onboarding and reskilling programs. She has spearheaded multiple projects in the marketing, automotive, financial and events industries, creating award-winning programs along the way. She shares her expertise in her blog and at global conferences, highlighting the importance of including disciplines outside L&D to help organizations build the workforce of the future. She teaches courses as part of the Learning Experience Design Certificate at OISE and published the eBook “The Little Black Book of Marketing and L&D”, a practical guide that helps integrate proven marketing techniques into L&D.
Nuno Gonçalves
Global Head of Strategic Capabilities Building
Nuno is a senior HR leader who is at the forefront of envisioning and driving Business / HR led transformations. He is an early pioneer in the move towards continuous transformation as a new reality. Nuno is currently the Global Head of Strategic Capabilities Building for Mars Inc, working on understanding the critical capabilities for the future and that the business strategy is fully aligned with the Mars University. Prior to this role Nuno for UCB, a bio-pharma company where he held different roles, as the HR VP for Neurology and as their Chief Learning Officer and Global Head of Talent Acquisition & Development. Before UCB Nuno was also Sanofi’s Chief Learning Officer. Apart from his Corporate role, Nuno is also part of the Board of Advisors and Senior Faculty for the Josh Bersin Academy as well as part of the Board of Advisors of an investment fund – Edge Investments, providing strategic HR expertise to startups in the portfolio and advising on potential investments from an HR perspective. He has recently co-founded an investment fund – Reaction – that was created by Stanford alumni to invest in companies that want to create a better world.
Irina McQuade
Senior Director, Learning & Executive Development
Irina McQuade started her career at Loblaw as a front line colleague where she learned the importance of customer service and found her passion for training. During her career, she has implemented many digital ‘firsts’ at Loblaw and she continues to strive toward innovation and agility in learning solutions that are meaningful, learner centric, deliver value to the organization and are scalable for Canada’s largest private sector employer.
Laurine Peters
HR Lead, Microsoft Canada Inc.
Laurine is a Human Resources professional with 20 years of corporate experience. She has a diverse background in Recruitment, HR Programs, Employee Relations, Organizational Capability and Management. She is a team motivator, strong communication and interpersonal skills. Passionate and dedicated on supporting both internal and external clients on their culture journey.
Session 5 - Wellbeing in the workplace
Christine Burych
President, StarlingBrook Leadership Consulting
Christine Burych is a top-tier leadership consultant and executive coach who enables leaders to create collaborative, productive and mentally healthy workplaces that everyone wants to be part of. She has helped more than 8,000 senior leaders in 50 big name companies get past their blind spots, improve mental resilience and grow their leadership presence in the best possible ways.
Christine worked with the rapidly expanding Porter Airlines to develop their employee commitment statement and roll out corporate social responsibility initiatives, multi-year leadership programs and crucially, an employee innovation strategy that gets ideas from the ground to executives. She helped Canada Post to shift their culture to a focus on psychological health and safety. She has also moved the needle for Jam3, PepsiCo, Bell Canada, Staples, Johnson & Johnson, Cochlear, Richardson and Gameloft.
The exceptional, impossible-to-miss results she consistently delivers are rooted in her diverse, twenty-five-year background. Christine started her working life as a front line community mental health worker, advancing to Acting Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Development at Canada’s largest teaching and research mental health facility. She has held senior positions in HR and OD, facilitated, taught, coached and led clients and families, community members, volunteers, employees and executives across various public and private sectors.
As a commitment to her leadership passion, Christine runs the Millennial Crusade, a pro bono, year-long program to address the leadership gap for Gen Ys moving up faster than any other generation in the workplace. This grassroots movement supports over 200 members, including rising all-stars at North America’s largest companies.
Emmanuel Jal
Founder, My Life is Art
From his start in life as a child soldier in the war-torn region of Southern Sudan in the early 1980s, Emmanuel Jal has come through huge personal struggles to become a successful and acclaimed recording artist, peace ambassador, entrepreneur and life performance coach now living in Toronto, Canada. He is the Founder of My Life Is Art (MLIA), a holistic wellbeing program that supports individuals to find their purpose, create positive outcomes in their lives and reach their goals.
Emmanuel rebuilt his life by rebuilding his mind and developed an unshakeable belief of hope for a brighter future, which has seen him overcome extreme trauma and gain mental strength. Emmanuel believes that every individual is encoded for excellence and is on a mission is to empower individuals to unlock their own strengths and talents, manage their thoughts and emotions and create extraordinary outcomes in their lives.
Christine Burych
President, StarlingBrook Leadership Consulting
Christine Burych is a top-tier leadership consultant and executive coach who enables leaders to create collaborative, productive and mentally healthy workplaces that everyone wants to be part of. She has helped more than 8,000 senior leaders in 50 big name companies get past their blind spots, improve mental resilience and grow their leadership presence in the best possible ways.
Christine worked with the rapidly expanding Porter Airlines to develop their employee commitment statement and roll out corporate social responsibility initiatives, multi-year leadership programs and crucially, an employee innovation strategy that gets ideas from the ground to executives. She helped Canada Post to shift their culture to a focus on psychological health and safety. She has also moved the needle for Jam3, PepsiCo, Bell Canada, Staples, Johnson & Johnson, Cochlear, Richardson and Gameloft.
The exceptional, impossible-to-miss results she consistently delivers are rooted in her diverse, twenty-five-year background. Christine started her working life as a front line community mental health worker, advancing to Acting Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Development at Canada’s largest teaching and research mental health facility. She has held senior positions in HR and OD, facilitated, taught, coached and led clients and families, community members, volunteers, employees and executives across various public and private sectors.
As a commitment to her leadership passion, Christine runs the Millennial Crusade, a pro bono, year-long program to address the leadership gap for Gen Ys moving up faster than any other generation in the workplace. This grassroots movement supports over 200 members, including rising all-stars at North America’s largest companies.
Emmanuel Jal
Founder, My Life is Art
From his start in life as a child soldier in the war-torn region of Southern Sudan in the early 1980s, Emmanuel Jal has come through huge personal struggles to become a successful and acclaimed recording artist, peace ambassador, entrepreneur and life performance coach now living in Toronto, Canada. He is the Founder of My Life Is Art (MLIA), a holistic wellbeing program that supports individuals to find their purpose, create positive outcomes in their lives and reach their goals.
Emmanuel rebuilt his life by rebuilding his mind and developed an unshakeable belief of hope for a brighter future, which has seen him overcome extreme trauma and gain mental strength. Emmanuel believes that every individual is encoded for excellence and is on a mission is to empower individuals to unlock their own strengths and talents, manage their thoughts and emotions and create extraordinary outcomes in their lives.
Session 6 - From ideas to action
Cindy Bush
Chief Human Resources Officer, TMX Group
Cindy Bush is Chief Human Resources
Officer at TMX Group, responsible for
leading all aspects of TMX’s Human
Resources function in support of the
Company’s corporate objectives,
including strategy development and
execution, workplace culture, total
rewards, employee communications,
performance management, and talent
development and acquisition.
Ms. Bush joined the Company in
December 2020, after more than 25
years of international experience in
human resources, talent strategies and
culture transformation.
Most recently, she served as Chief
Human Resources Officer at Cineplex
and had previously held leadership
roles at companies ranging in size from
30 to 100,000 employees, including
Foresters Financial, OMERS, and CIBC.
In 2008, she authored “Project Managing
Change: Practical Tools and Techniques
to Make Change Happen”, a global bestseller published by Financial Times
Business Enterprises.
Ms. Bush holds a Bachelor of
Journalism from Carleton University and
a Masters of Education from the
University of Toronto.
Dylan Gordon
Managing Partner, Faculty of Change
Dylan Gordon has spent two decades working at the intersection of organizational anthropology and innovation. He is an expert in developing deep insight and foresight to inspire new-to-world offerings. His broad experience in digital transformation, capability building and culture change spans multiple industries including logistics, financial services, healthcare and CPG.
Dylan conducted his PhD fieldwork on applied innovation in CPG value chains and retailing, and holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology.
Kareen Proudian
Managing Partner, Faculty of Change
Kareen Proudian has over a decade of strategy and management consulting experience from various consulting firms and agencies. She is passionate about creating innovative products, services and customer experience that deliver value for users, and has done this across the financial service, non-profit, technology, and health sectors. She has a background in governance and compliance, working to apply regulatory compliance across the mining, financial services and public sector industries.
Kareen has an MBA from HEC Paris and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University
Kris Tierney
CHRP, CHRL, Vice-President, HR and Learning, Human Resources Professionals Association
Kris’s approach as an executive leader is to achieve results by creating outstanding workplaces where people & culture are strategic priorities. She is a passionate and skilled business executive with 15 years’ experience leading HR in hi tech, high growth companies in automotive and financial services where she served as a trusted people and culture strategist, advisor and business partner to the C-Suite.
Kris started her career in hospitality where she held various leadership and management positions. For more than 20-years, Kris has served as a valued member of senior and executive leadership teams, where her skills in HR, leadership, strategy, and culture were honed and her passion for business and human resources were developed. She is periodically called upon by media, conferences and academia to contribute her experience and perspectives as an HR and business leader.
Kris has achieved the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) and Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) designations as awarded by the Human Resources Professionals Association in Ontario, Canada. As a lifelong learner, Kris is thrilled to bring professional development and learning opportunities to the HR community in her role as Vice-President, Human Resources and Learning at the HRPA.
Cindy Bush
Chief Human Resources Officer, TMX Group
Cindy Bush is Chief Human Resources
Officer at TMX Group, responsible for
leading all aspects of TMX’s Human
Resources function in support of the
Company’s corporate objectives,
including strategy development and
execution, workplace culture, total
rewards, employee communications,
performance management, and talent
development and acquisition.
Ms. Bush joined the Company in
December 2020, after more than 25
years of international experience in
human resources, talent strategies and
culture transformation.
Most recently, she served as Chief
Human Resources Officer at Cineplex
and had previously held leadership
roles at companies ranging in size from
30 to 100,000 employees, including
Foresters Financial, OMERS, and CIBC.
In 2008, she authored “Project Managing
Change: Practical Tools and Techniques
to Make Change Happen”, a global bestseller published by Financial Times
Business Enterprises.
Ms. Bush holds a Bachelor of
Journalism from Carleton University and
a Masters of Education from the
University of Toronto.
Dylan Gordon
Managing Partner, Faculty of Change
Dylan Gordon has spent two decades working at the intersection of organizational anthropology and innovation. He is an expert in developing deep insight and foresight to inspire new-to-world offerings. His broad experience in digital transformation, capability building and culture change spans multiple industries including logistics, financial services, healthcare and CPG.
Dylan conducted his PhD fieldwork on applied innovation in CPG value chains and retailing, and holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology.
Kareen Proudian
Managing Partner, Faculty of Change
Kareen Proudian has over a decade of strategy and management consulting experience from various consulting firms and agencies. She is passionate about creating innovative products, services and customer experience that deliver value for users, and has done this across the financial service, non-profit, technology, and health sectors. She has a background in governance and compliance, working to apply regulatory compliance across the mining, financial services and public sector industries.
Kareen has an MBA from HEC Paris and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University
Kris Tierney
CHRP, CHRL, Vice-President, HR and Learning, Human Resources Professionals Association
Kris’s approach as an executive leader is to achieve results by creating outstanding workplaces where people & culture are strategic priorities. She is a passionate and skilled business executive with 15 years’ experience leading HR in hi tech, high growth companies in automotive and financial services where she served as a trusted people and culture strategist, advisor and business partner to the C-Suite.
Kris started her career in hospitality where she held various leadership and management positions. For more than 20-years, Kris has served as a valued member of senior and executive leadership teams, where her skills in HR, leadership, strategy, and culture were honed and her passion for business and human resources were developed. She is periodically called upon by media, conferences and academia to contribute her experience and perspectives as an HR and business leader.
Kris has achieved the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) and Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) designations as awarded by the Human Resources Professionals Association in Ontario, Canada. As a lifelong learner, Kris is thrilled to bring professional development and learning opportunities to the HR community in her role as Vice-President, Human Resources and Learning at the HRPA.