Chief Human Resources Officer Canada · Global perspective
The person behind
the decisions.

I build the leadership, organisation and people capabilities that allow strategy to become sustained performance. My work spans succession, organisation design and culture change, with a focus on making people decisions both thoughtful and operationally practical.
The CHRO's role is to bring a clear view of human and organisational capacity into the enterprise agenda. That includes asking whether the leadership model supports the strategy, whether the organisation can absorb the change being proposed and whether its systems reward the behaviours it says it values.
I favour evidence, candid dialogue and careful execution. I want leaders to share ownership of their people decisions and employees to experience clarity between the organisation's commitments and its everyday practices.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Languages / English · French
A leadership conviction
People strategy must explain how the organisation will build the capability its ambitions require. I connect succession, organisation design and everyday leadership practice, with attention to fairness, privacy and the experience of employees.
- Senior roles filled internally
- 85%
- Through a rebuilt succession pipeline
- Engagement improvement
- +31 pts
- During a three-year transformation
- Colleagues served
- 52,000
- In 30 countries
- Women in leadership
- 40%
- Up from 18% in five years
Career chapters
2020 — Present 01
Chief Human Resources Officer
Aldermoor Group
Leading enterprise people strategy, executive succession and organisation capability. Working with the CEO and board on the leadership, culture and workforce choices behind business priorities.
2016 — 2020 02
Vice President, Talent & Organisation
Fairhaven Holdings
Built talent and organisation programmes with operating leaders, connecting development activity to business capability. Developed practical experience in role design, leadership assessment and change delivery.
2012 — 2017 03
Global Head of Talent
Meridian Consolidated
Designed the leadership pipeline that produced the group's next three business-unit presidents.
2006 — 2012 04
HR Business Partner, Operations
Calder Logistics
Partnered frontline leaders through a network redesign, and learned that culture is what happens on the night shift.
Board & advisory record
Current appointments
Calder Logistics
Independent Director
Nomination & Remuneration (Chair)
2022 — Present
The Skills Forward Foundation
Trustee
Programmes · Governance
2018 — Present
Education & credentials
- MA, Organisational Psychology
- Kingsgate University · 2003
- MBA, Strategy & Finance
- Westbrook School of Management · 2004
- Certified Executive Coach
- The Coaching Standards Council · 2016
Recognition
CHRO of the Year
The People Leaders Awards · 2024
Best Workplace Transformation
The Boardroom Review · 2022
Books & papers
The Succession Advantage: Developing Leaders Before You Need Them
Ashgrove Press · 2024
In conversation
The People Leaders Journal / 2025
Building a succession bench the board can trust
The Boardroom Review / 2024
What remuneration committees miss about culture
The Leadership Ledger podcast / 2023
Episode 117 — Culture on the night shift
Perspectives from colleagues
Our succession conversations became evidence-based and calm. That is a gift to any board.
A people leader the whole executive team trusted with its hardest decisions.