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, 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, is highly valued by clients for her
pragmatic approach to a broad range of strategic issues that result in great
places to work. Her work includes: organization reviews; employee
engagement surveys; development of positive, healthy organization climates;
strategic and operational human resource planning; change management;
performance development; conflict management & mediation; leadership
coaching; organization structure; and succession management. Her work has
taken place in unionized and non-unionized environments and for businesses of
all sizes in both the public and private sectors.
She has led the architecture of large P3 human resource planning and has extensive experience in post-acquisition integration.
Patricia is a Past
President of the B.C. Human Resources Management Association, where she held
positions on the Board from 1990 - 1995. In addition, she is a Past Chair
(1992) and Awards Judge for the B.C. Workplace Excellence Awards Program, an
initiative of the Canadian Mental Health Association.
Jon Spalding is a Senior Associate of ReWerx and specializes in helping clients improve planning and organizational performance through their processes and employees. Typically he starts working with clients in developing strategic plans, often incorporating original market research and forecasting, or employee issue research. His clients have achieved annualized improvements of up to 30% to key financial indicators through improved productivity, cost effectiveness, quality control and safety results.
Jon works on an ongoing basis with a number of key clients as a coach and mentor to assist key decision makers and organizational leaders implement change, as well as improve their personal team and leadership effectiveness. He has a background in all aspects of Human Resource management and organizational planning. Jon's work has involved the development of organizational design and change, performance compensation, corporate culture and community relations programs for client companies as well as coaching managers in performance management, leadership, and communication skills.
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
Iain Snee,
Senior Associate, is a professional innovator specializing
in bridging social capital 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 during his ten
years 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.
In
2005, Iain returned to university to pursue his entrepreneurial interests in
political and social change.
He
initiated unique research on education funding policies while completing a
Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in political science.
He now regularly interacts with the Ministry of
Advanced Education, Industry Training Authority, educators, and businesses
through his involvement with the Education and Skills Task Force at the
Vancouver Board of Trade and his research activities aligned with the Centre for
Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training at the University of British
Columbia.
Iain
has the experience and capability to comfortably interact with the unique
interests of individuals and organizations within the business, educational, and
political arenas.
As someone who can bridge these spheres, he will
serve as a key translator and mediator between interest groups to foster action.
Graham
Punnett, Senior
Associate, has specialized in applying his facilitation and group problem
solving skills in both corporate and government settings. As founder of Graham
Punnett. & Associates, Ltd. and Peak Experiences Inc.
he has become widely recognized for his expertise in strengthening teams and
organizations. His
clients have improved their productivity through increased employee
participation in operational problem solving, effective management teamwork and
streamlined communication systems and practices.
Graham
has been involved in all aspects of organization change and development --
organization effectiveness audits, strategic planning, training and development,
facilitation of problem solving and planning meetings, executive and management
coaching for performance improvement -- for over 23 years.
In
addition, he is president of Peak Experiences, Inc. a company established in
1988 to provide outdoor-based leadership and teamwork programs to business and
government clients.
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.
Carole Small,
Associate,
was a senior level operations manager with the public sector in
In 2004 – 2005, as part
of the management leadership team, she participated in a major provincial
government outsourcing initiative involving the development of a plan to
transition staff, business processes and systems to the private sector and a
subsequent business process transformation.
Carole attained teaching accreditation
at the
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.
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.
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.