Who Are We?
We deliver outstanding outcomes to the private sector, all levels of government (and their agencies), NGOs, large associations and not-for profit organizations. Clients include such groups as:
Our clients say the following:
Our success to date relates to delivering results and extremely high levels of
client satisfaction. Clients publicly say the following about our work:
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We have worked with
Rewerx on several occasions. Bruce’s commitment to our shared success is
tangible and he is a major force behind our achievements. We look forward to
this continuing relationship. – VP, Canada’s largest Credit Union |
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I have worked
closely with Bruce and Rewerx since 2002 and he has consistently delivered
top notch results and advice both in our partnership with external
stakeholders, and in improving our internal processes.
Bruce has helped us successfully navigate
challenging negotiations and always explores and reminds us of our common
interests and goals.
– Director, Crown Corporation |
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Our group has used
Bruce and Rewerx a number of times to help with strategic planning as well
as a survey of members. Bruce is always dedicated to the task, perceptive of
our needs and conscious of our budget… and he delivers.
– Executive, Financial Services |
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I have used
Bruce's services many times and have always found his work first class.
He has helped us get results.
He always delivers what he commits to.
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ReWerx only retains
associates with the highest levels of competence, experience and credentials to
provide superior client related services. Equally important is each consultant’s
service ethic.
Our team:
ReWerx is based on a set of close, lasting professional partnerships. Partners have diverse skills and complementary styles. We are able to scale our project work to appropriately reflect the situation and unique needs of each project. This has enabled us to seamlessly manage complex projects from coast to coast, as we bring the most appropriate mix of partners to the task.
Bruce Gillespie, the Principal of ReWerx, has more than twenty-five years of hands-on business experience in managing organization development and transition -- assisting clients to develop competitive advantage through people and strategies. His expertise in strategy formation, planning and implementation, process facilitation, organization design and redesign, and managing complex organization change provides a valuable resource to ReWerx's clients.
Bruce has a specialized degree in Business Administration. He has been involved in the process leadership of breakthrough team building and problem solving processes that have reshaped commerce, community relationships and government policy. Bruce has developed a strong reputation for his consulting expertise in areas of organization transformation, strategy formation and its implementation, stakeholder consultation, productivity improvement and employee engagement. Bruce has been the key architect of start-up organizations within North America. He has lectured in Canada and the United States on issues of stakeholder involvement, competitive position, organization change and restructuring.
Bruce was previously Managing Partner and co-owner of Right Management Consultants in Western Canada. Right is one of the largest firms of its kind in the world specializing in human resources, organization change and planning. Within this network of over 100 international offices, he chaired the organization's Management Committee, and was a resource to other offices in the development and introduction of specialized areas of organization and human resource consulting. In 1993, Bruce created ReWerx in order to focus his efforts on assisting clients in the areas of sustainable organization improvement, competitive positioning and managing complex change.
Our Associates
Patricia Gibb,
Senior Associate, has extensive
business experience with a focus on implementing human resources strategies that
support organizational capacity to achieve business results. With more than 20
years of consulting expertise, she has built a strong reputation for developing
and implementing approaches that support long-term vision and goals, and
maximize organization performance and competitiveness. Her work focuses on
building organization capacity and capability through strategic workforce
planning
that allows flexibility to respond to changing internal and external
environments; talent management
strategies; and development of organization cultures that align with business
strategy. She has applied competency-based approaches to organization design,
workforce planning/succession planning, performance management systems, and
individual coaching. Her expertise has been sought by multiple organizations
across a wide variety of public and private sectors including all levels of
government, educational institutions, health care, technology, and the services
industry.
Scott Borland,
B.Sc., M.Ed. (Adult Education), CHRP, CMC is president of CYGNUS Management
Consultants Inc. and a Senior Associate at ReWerx. Scott brings to the
consulting team over 25 years of experience in management, human resources
development and organizational effectiveness. His practical experience in a
number of industry sectors has afforded him an appreciation for the unique
challenges facing organizations. Specializing in organization development, Scott
has provided consulting services and training to clients ranging from Fortune
500 firms to large public sector organizations, including extensive experience
working with health care organizations. In addition to his external consulting
experience, Scott has worked as a top executive at Canada’s largest foundation
and as a senior internal business consultant at a major utility.
David MacInnes,
Associate, has been a management consultant since 1970 with major firms and in
independent practice in both the United States and Canada.
David holds a B.A. from Amherst College, and an M.B.A. from Harvard
University. In the last ten years
his professional work has been based in Vancouver, and he has focused his
experience on human resource issues and problems.
He has a particular interest in the skills and abilities of middle
managers, and has worked with the most senior levels in both the government and
private sectors.
David’s specific projects include:
organizational development and structure; top management succession; program
evaluation for governing board review; extensive executive search assignments
including pilot projects for the B.C. Ministry of Finance (2000); and the
identification of competencies for both top management and entry level managers.
In numerous executive search assignments, he has introduced the concept
of competencies in both describing job requirements and the evaluation of
candidates.
Nancy Gomerich
is a Senior Associate of ReWerx,
and Principal of NG Consulting.
Nancy is a Chartered Accountant and experienced
municipal government Finance Officer with over seventeen years’ experience in
senior municipal positions.
She has worked in both a smaller (City of Pitt
Meadows, BC) and a larger municipality (City of Port Coquitlam, BC), with prior
experience as a municipal auditor in the private sector.
During Nancy’s
three years in consulting she has worked with many Finance Officers, providing
services in the area of financial statement preparation and year-end audit work,
budgeting, taxation and extensively respecting the implementation of Public
Sector Accounting Board (“PSAB”) tangible capital assets and the move to the new
financial reporting model.
Nancy also has
significant expertise and experience in the areas of strategic planning,
business planning and performance measurement.
These are topics she is passionate about as she
believes quality work in these areas will result in real improvements in
government leadership and city services, both in terms of efficiency and
effectiveness.
She has been significantly involved in, or led the
development of, the strategic and business plans and related performance
measures in her previous senior local government positions.
Nancy is a skilled presenter and facilitator and
enjoys the excitement of working with organizations to develop/update these
fundamental plans.
In her work both as
a facilitator and evaluator she has been involved with diverse projects. She led
the design and facilitation for: pan-Canadian research workshop on sustainable
harvesting of biomass;
She has also been
involved in numerous other strategic initiatives, including:
Iain Snee, ReWerx Senior Associate and proprietor of Iain Snee & Associates (www.iainsnee.com), is a change management professional with over fifteen years of results in bridging knowledge and business opportunities. His diverse experience and capabilities bring a unique perspective to any situation that encourages insights and actions. Iain held senior management positions in the high technology manufacturing industry due to a business plan written during his Bachelor of Commerce degree. He launched and turned around companies while developing new business processes for contract manufacturers in the industrial environment.
His consulting business focused on training manufacturers to implement automated scheduling through the operating procedures and policies he designed and successfully deployed. For example, a precision optics manufacturer doubled their sales after attending one of Iain’s seminars. In other cases, his consulting supported broader goals. For example, a wire manufacturer with $20 million annual sales utilized his expertise as part of a business process re-implementation project that generated $1 million in annual cost savings and prepared the firm for a successful merger. Alternatively, some firms find reviewing core business processes highlights other issues to address. For example, one family owned precision stamping firm faced succession challenges and Iain temporarily covered the general management role to maintain momentum and help the family resolve the issue promptly.
Iain has the experience and capability to comfortably bridge the unique interests of individuals and organizations within the business and political sectors to generate business opportunities. His change management skills focus on organizational startup, turnaround, and growth through management and technology effectiveness.
Craig Knight,
Senior Associate,
is an independent policy consultant, facilitator and strategic planner. He has
more than 20 years of experience in the British Columbia Ministry of Health as a
strategic planner, negotiator and policy advisor.
He is a retired Assistant Deputy Minister of Health
Services where he was responsible for legislation, corporate policy, research,
intergovernmental relations and professional regulation.
During his career with the British Columbia public service
he led initiatives to improve health human resource planning, the expansion of
post-secondary seats in a variety of medical professions, strategy for the 2004
national health accord, consultations for a national Aboriginal health plan,
updating of health legislation and the introduction of new health acts to
improve and reform health care delivery and the implementation of
recommendations arising from the 2006 Conversation on Health. He also served as
a business analyst with Strategic Management Services. He was instrumental in
facilitating a national consultation to provide Ministers of Health with
recommendations to improve the delivery of organ and tissue donation and
transplantation services for Canada and a process for assessing entry to
practice credentials for health professions. He collaborated with British
Columbia regulated health professions on the implementation of provisions in the
Agreement on Internal Trade.
Craig holds a BA in psychology from Valparaiso University
and a Masters of Divinity from Christ Seminary in the United States.
Larry Straith, Senior Associate and proprietor of Straith & Associates, is a financial expert with over twenty years of professional and business experience. As a founding partner of a chartered accountancy and consulting firm, and as director and officer of various business interests, he has served clients and provided management services at all stages of corporate development. Industries include resource development, retail, construction, manufacturing, franchise, financial, real estate and professional organizations.
His consulting role includes financial planning and development (i.e., financial reviews and analysis, business modelling and forecasts, merger and acquisition or divestiture planning, and financial restructuring and sourcing), business planning and development (i.e., business assessment, operations audits and re-engineering, and business plan development and implementation), information systems (i.e., requirements and value analysis, business operations and financial reporting, performance and benchmarking systems, and administrative and support systems).
Larry is committed to Client success by offering a dynamic contribution throughout each assignment and providing the highest standards of professional service. This includes working closely with a Client's advisory team to facilitate change and improvement in concert with management initiatives. His approach delivers practical and integrated solutions, timely service and performance accountability. The focus is to identify and achieve the best value result for each unique business situation. Efficient support facilities and a modular service approach to enable reasonable fee arrangements tailored for each engagement.
In
the last two years, he assisted
the Consultative Steering Committee of
Fisheries and Oceans Canada:
Aquaculture Management Directorate in preparing a
multi-phased consultation plan as well as the design of regional and national
consultation workshops in support of the development of an aquaculture renewal
strategy.
He assisted the Canadian Association of
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graduated from the
Tim Dillon,
Senior Associate, has over 30 years
in the compensation field, working in all facets of total compensation. His
experience includes over 18 years with a major international consulting firm
(Watson Wyatt Worldwide) where he was a senior compensation consultant,
practising in strategic total compensation design for organizations in both the
public and private sector.
His work
involved developing and implementing compensation strategies for a broad, cross
section of employee groups including:
executive, management and professional, technical, and unionized staff.
Prior to his consulting experience, Tim was Manager Compensation for a
large financial organization. He started his compensation career with the
federal government at the Pay Research Bureau, Public Service Staff Relations
Board.
Tim established his own company in November 2005 and currently works with
clients in both private and public sectors.
He provides compensation advice in the areas of total executive
remuneration, general salary administration, market pricing and job evaluation,
performance management, and incentive/variable pay design. Based on his diverse
experience, Tim works with a large network of independent compensation
professionals, providing timely, cost effective, and strategically focused
compensation advice.
Tim is a graduate of
Dave Hardy, Senior Associate, has an extensive social science background and has researched and provided expert testimony and/or peer advice about socio-economic impacts and land use for a range of clients. He has completed socio-economic impact assessment studies of land developments, airport expansions, waste management facilities, community monitoring and compensation programs, 3-R's programs, energy facilities, transportation facilities and a variety of other projects and programs. He has written extensively on his research findings, lectured in universities and given professional papers in Canada and the United States. He currently publishes the Social and Environmental Assessment Bulletin.
A Registered Professional Planner for over
20 years, Dave has developed a wide reputation for understanding and addressing
the social, economic and cultural aspects of planning exercises. He has provided expert testimony on social/cultural and land
use matters before the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Panel, the
Ontario Court of Appeal, the Environmental Assessment Board, the Ontario
Municipal Board and the Ontario Energy Board.
David Verlee, Associate, has over 12 years experience in business improvement processes and market research in North America, Asia and Europe. David has a Bachelor in Economic Geography and a postgraduate diploma in business.
In 1998, David became the Vice President (IT) of RLG International – a 150+ employee, Vancouver based management-consulting firm. Focusing on Fortune 500 companies, David and his technical team created and implemented a web based balanced scorecard. David managed client implementation of the RLG Balanced Scorecard included Shell Europe, British Petroleum, and Amerada Hess. During this process, David also became a regular speaker at numerous local organizations (BCTIA, BC Quality Council, etc.) on the subject of Balanced Scorecard.
Prior to his experience with RLG International, the Observer of London and USA Today commissioned David’s experience and knowledge for business reports on the Technology, Finance, and Transportation sectors in both India and the Philippines.
George
McLeod,
Associate,
is a Chartered Accountant who has amassed twenty-five years of hands-on, senior
management experience over the full spectrum of the information technology
industry.
His
strategic oversight of significant ventures has bridged both regulated and
unregulated environments
Demonstrated
strengths include; strategic planning and business process engineering, project
management, marketing, contract negotiations, problem solving, finance, and
administration.
An extremely results-oriented individual, George has proven himself an enthusiastic self-starter who has clearly mastered all aspects of supply chain management. His resume reflects his total immersion in all phases of significant systems development life cycles.