A published author, dedicated educator, and recognized human resource professional, Raeleen is the recipient of the O.C. Tanner Lifetime Achievement Award in HR, and is an award-winning Top 30 HR Professional in Canada. Dr. Manjak has also been presented with the LGMA’s Presidents’ Award for outstanding leadership, volunteerism, and mentorship, and Professional Service Awards in both Innovation and Leadership. This past year, Raeleen also had the great privilege of being inducted into the University of Lethbridge Alumni Honour Society. As a lifelong learner, Raeleen continues to participate in building the next generation of leaders in strategic HR management as Faculty in multiple Schools of Business across Canada.

About the Guest:

Sasja Nieukerk-Chomos is a President of Culture of Service and Leadership with Dynamic Achievement, a consulting firm based in BC specializing in leadership development. 

Sasja has consulted and coached in a variety of public and private sector industries, everything from automotive to engineering to banking to healthcare and to tourism! Her areas of expertise include leadership and team development, optimizing peak performance, creating agile and resilient organizational cultures and customer service excellence.  Sasja has a Masters Degree in Leadership from Royal Roads University and is a Certified Professional Coach with advanced certification from Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder Centered Coaching process for executives.  

Throughout the 37 plus years of his career in BC local and provincial governments, Randy Diehl has been a prominent figure. He was with the City of Kamloops for over 20 years, leading the City’s corporate strategy to become a “Top 100 Organization”.

In this episode we have been joined by a talent strategist and a company culture expert Steve Cadigan.  Savvy in the future of work, Steve is considered a corporate culture guru, bringing winning insights from over thirty years of HR experience with industry titans like Google, Salesforce, The Royal Bank of Scotland, McKinsey, and the BBC, as well as venture capital firms. Steve is well known for leading LinkedIn’s first talent push and building its world-famous culture, and his inspirational keynotes, seminars, and workshops at global conferences and major universities have garnered rave reviews.  

Steve is the founder of his own Silicon Valley-based firm, Cadigan Talent Ventures, and the author of an important and timely new book called “WorkQuake:  Embracing the Aftershocks of COVID-19 to Create a Better Model of Working”.

Timely decisions in complex situations can be challenging. In this episode, we have been joined by Susanne Biro to explore leadership and decision-making, and how leaders can help their teams through the times of uncertainty.

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Real Conversations: The Five Questions Worksheet

Join us as we talk about the importance of Presence and Purpose in today's organizations and what leaders, individuals and groups can do, not only in our workplaces, but also in our day-to-day lives to develop ourselves, our communities, and the world in which we live.

For more, see blog posts by Yabome and information on Personal/Social Purpose/Purpose Driven Organizations by HBR,  Dan Pink, Robert Quinn and David Cooperider:

• https://sldconsulting.org/quilting-global-futures/ (Blog Post-Yabome Gilpin-Jackson)

Join us in this episode as we discuss green Human Resources Management and the role of HR in sustainability with John Bratton. John has over 30 years of experience teaching HRM and has co-authored multiple HR books. 

Please join us in this episode as we chat with Anthony Ariganello, CEO of CPHR BC & Yukon and CPHR Canada, as he provides insight into economic responses to COVID-19 and the impact on Human Resources.

Today's guest wears many hats - trainer, facilitator, advisor, mediator, arbitrator - and is also the author of The Mirror Method - How to build productive teams by ending workplace dysfunction. Please join us as we chat with Marli Rusen about building respectful, productive and dynamic workplaces! 

Please join us in this episode with David Duckworth, CAO of the City of Calgary, as he shares his insights as a leader for one of Canada's largest cities!