Robert K. Smithson
Robert’s legal practice is focused exclusively on the areas of labour law and employment law. Robert has a unique background as a labour and employment lawyer. He began as in-house union counsel and later moved on to represent management clients. Recently, he served as Director of Human Resources & Industrial Relations at Western Star Trucks in Kelowna. [go]

Lizz Pellet
Lizz Pellet, CEO of EMERGE International and Fellow from Johns Hopkins University is the author of Getting Your Shift Together Making Sense ofOrganizational Culture and Change - Introducing Cultural Due Diligence. Lizz is a member of the National Speakers Association and has presented over 70 professional learning sessions in the past three years. [go]

Deirdre Pickerell, MEd.
Deirdre Pickerell has close to fifteen years experience as an educator, manager and career coach. As former Director and Principal of an accredited private career training institution, known as a leader in information technology training and career management services, Deirdre led a team of professionals as they provided training, career planning and job search services to hundreds of clients. [go]

Doris Bentley
Doris Bentley is the Principal of Vancouver-based Centrepoint Career Management, a talent management consulting firm which provides consulting services and professional development programs in talent recruitment and retention, generational differences, and leadership development. For more information, please visit www.centrepointcareer.com [go]

Jennifer Scott
Jennifer Scott, who was admitted to the B.C. Bar in 1999, is founder & principal lawyer of Urban Law, a boutique labour relations & employment law firm located in Vancouver, BC. [go]

Roberta Neault, PhD, CCC, RRP
Dr. Roberta Neault has over two decades of professional experience in career counselling, corporate consulting, adult education and entrepreneurial endeavours. Whether she is working with individuals, governments, universities or corporations, Roberta's mission remains constant. [go]

Sandra Reder
With over 14 years of recruitment and management experience, Sandra has held various positions ranging from a recruiter with a Vancouver-based recruitment firm to the branch manager of two large multi-national employment agencies. In addition to her role with Vertical Bridge she mostly recently was the Principal of Innovate Consulting, a small boutique recruiting firm located on the West Coast. [go]

Susan McIntyre
Susan has significant experience in the Human Resources field. Her expertise ranges from recruitment, organizational design and continuous improvement initiatives, to supervisor development, performance management, and change management. [go]

Tony Kirschner
A native of Vancouver, Tony was educated in the United States where he cut his teeth in the recruiting business. After earning his BA in Political Science from DePaul University in Chicago, Tony worked for CPS Inc. the USA’s largest technical recruiting firm. At CPS, he specialized in the engineering field, developing lasting relationships with such clients as Michelin, Caterpillar Inc., Williams/Bally Electronic Games Inc. and Borg Warner Transmissions. [go]

Arden Albino
Arden Albino is the Principal Consultant of her Vancouver-based practice, specializing in work design and rewards. She creates work design, compensation and other reward solutions that align people to business goals and foster a high performance culture. [go]

Michael Schuster
Michael Schuster holds a law degree and is HR Director at Northwest Community College. He has a diverse background in negotiations with over 50 sets of collective bargaining negotiations to his credit while working on both sides of the table. [go]

Bonny Albo
Bonny Albo is a full time freelance writer and copywriter, heading up her own copywriting business since early 2005. She has written professionally on and off for almost twenty years in a myriad of publication formats (newspapers, television, new media, Internet, and print) [go]

Nichole Wesson
Nichole Wesson has over 14 years working in marketing and business development with the majority of that experience coming from the recruitment advertising and online advertising industries. With experience in both Canada and the US, Nichole's most recent experience was as Director of Business Development, Canada for Bernard Hodes Group [go]

Derek Gagné
Derek Gagné is the CEO of Talent Edge Solutions Inc. He has been helping organizations with their planning, people and process strategies for over 10 years. [go]

Catherine Ducharme
Catherine has over 25 years’ experience in brand development and corporate, marketing and internal communications serving a variety of companies in a range of industries. Since 2000 she’s successfully run her own corporate and marketing communications business and in 2006, co-founded Outsidein Communications. She’s passionate about branding from the inside out and believes a well defined brand is strategic asset. [go]

Sharon Habib
Sharon is a principal at OutsideIN Communications, specializing in branding and communications. She has 15 years’ experience in branding, marketing and communications in a broad range of industries. [go]

Cissy Pau
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