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2014 HRPA BOARD ELECTION RESULTS
The following members of the Human Resources Professionals
Association (HRPA) were recently elected (or re-elected) to
serve on HRPA’s Board of Directors for the next three years.
They include:
MICHELLE COLLIER, CHRP
Michelle is a veteran HR professional with over 20 years of HR
leadership experience in a variety of industries – including health
care, hospitality and transportation – providing human resources
expertise in start-ups, and re-establishing and leading HR depart-ments
within organizations.
ALICE KUBICEK, CHRP, SHRP
Currently managing director of akpsGlobal, Alice has extensive
HR experience in both consulting (specializing in leadership,
performance dynamics and non-profit board governance) and
academics (adjunct professor in MBA and eMBA programs
at University of Ottawa and Graduate School of Business at
University of Grenoble in France).
JENNIFER LAIDLAW, CHRP, SHRP
Currently chief human resources officer with the Ontario
Securities Commission (OSC), Jennifer has more than 15 years’
experience in a variety of strategic human resources leadership
roles, including: managing large-scale change projects; creat-ing
and executing people strategies; leading significant corporate
restructuring initiatives; and implementing enterprise and func-tional
talent strategies.
KAREN STONE, SHRP
Karen began her HR career with St. Joseph’s Health Care London
in 1990. She is currently the hospital’s chief human resources of-ficer
and oversees a portfolio encompassing human resources,
organizational development and occupational health and safety,
providing services to over 4,200 employees.
These new board members will officially start their terms after
HRPA’s annual general meeting on May 14, 2014.
CANADIAN ORGANIZATIONS SPENDING MORE
ON STAFF TRAINING
Between 2010 and 2012, Canadian organizations increased
funding for training, learning and development, according to the
12th edition of The Conference Board of Canada’s Learning and
Development Outlook. Spending was up $17 per employee, a mod-est
reversal of the downward trend of the past two decades.
The Canadian organizations surveyed in the Learning and
Development Outlook spent an average of $705 per employee com-pared
$688 per employee in 2010. Despite this modest increase,
overall learning and development spending is down nearly 40 per
cent from its historic high of $1,207 in 1993. Over the past 20
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