Senior Consultant, Associate

Roland is a senior Human Resources professional with 30 + years of experience as an HR generalist and leader who collaborates with individuals at all levels in an organization to facilitate the creation and maintenance of inspiring and engaging workplaces.

Roland believes that employees at every level need a combination of stability, trust, compassion and hope from their leaders in order to be inspired and remain engaged; the people systems he helps identify and implement facilitate the creation of work environments that provide & support these basic needs.

After starting his career in a manufacturing environment with General Motors and later Procter & Gamble, Roland went on to HR roles in a variety of union and non-union industries including automotive, consumer goods, printing, high-tech, oil & gas services and management consulting.

Some of his key accomplishments include researching and creating recommendations for a Total Compensation program; developing and implementing an Employee Performance Development program; revising and consolidating an Employee Handbook incorporating legislation from three countries; facilitating the change management project of a unionized public organization from its legacy ‘way of doing things’ to new processes, tools and leadership; assisting an organization in high growth mode to explode from 60 to 400 employees in less than 2 years; and at the other extreme, assisting an organization with the closure of its manufacturing facility, resulting in the elimination of 1,100 positions.

Roland’s professional development includes a Certificate in HR Management from the University of Toronto; the Advanced Program for HR Professionals, also from the University of Toronto and Instructional Skills Workshop (Train-the-Trainer) at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

Roland holds a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University, as well as an MBA from the University of Windsor.

Roland has also devoted significant time and energy to volunteer opportunities in the not-for-profit sector, first as a Board member and then as Board Chair, for both the Cerebral Palsy Association in Alberta (CPAA) as well as Immigrant Services Calgary (ISC). These opportunities provided him with first-hand understanding of the current challenges faced by organizations in this sector.