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Our clients represent organizations of all sizes across all
sectors and include members of the International Fortune 500 and the
Canadian Financial Post 100, in such sectors as: major cities, education, energy, engineering, financial services, forest products, governments,
healthcare, mining, NGO's, research & development. technology,
transportation and utilities.
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:
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.
Duncan Gillespie,
Associate, has spent the past 7 years earning international experience in
strategic human resource management. He specializes in helping
organizations improve planning, implementation and organizational performance
through effective change management practices. His
work helps to ensure strategic plans realize their potential benefit through
comprehensive planning and flawless implementation of necessary changes to
people, processes and technology. He has worked on some of the most significant
business transformation initiatives within the financial services sector across
Canada and Australia.
Duncan is accredited in Prosci Change Management methodology, and has experience
working with both the Accenture and Deloitte Change Management methodologies. He
has extensive international experience in the design, development, delivery and
evaluation of in-house change management and training capability. Duncan
has led Change Management teams to successfully implement large-scale shifts in
corporate strategy, with emphasis on employee engagement and customer
experience. He also has experience leading training initiatives for large
systems and process changes with capital budgets of $600,000,000. Duncan has a background in change management, organization development and organizational training. He has a Business Administration Degree from the University of Western Ontario with a specialty in organization behaviour and psychology.
Dr.
Cheryl Stenström,
Senior Associate,
is based in the Lower Mainland
and has been involved with the library sector since 1993, and is an
internationally-recognized expert on Canadian public libraries.
She has developed a deep understanding of their
organizational structures, governance and cultures through a combination of
experience and research and is well known throughout the Canadian library
community for her consulting and committee work.
She has developed departmental and product-specific
services as well as led local, regional and provincial organizations.
Cheryl’s experience includes consulting with a variety of public libraries.
She led a leadership team from rural public
libraries through a transition to a federation as well as through an exploratory
process for acquired a shared integrated library system.
Cheryl developed a province-wide plan for small libraries to create virtual
library spaces, and recently she assessed the training needs for public library
staff across British Columbia and Southern Ontario.
This resulted in the recommendation and
implementation of comprehensive training strategies.
As a public library CEO, she led a regional library
system through a strategic planning process that generated significant increases
in library membership and use.
Cheryl has taken on front-line and leadership roles in rural and urban
libraries, including Fraser Valley Regional Library, Surrey Public Library, and
South Short Regional Library.
She has been a government and independent
consultant to many library organizations, including the IslandLINK and Kootenay
Library Federations, the Southern Ontario Library Service, Ontario Library
Service North, Libraries and Literacy BC, The British Columbia Library
Association, the Canadian Urban Libraries Council, and the Northern Exposure to
Leadership Institute.
In addition to holding an MLIS from UBC, Cheryl is a graduate of the San
José/QUT Gateway PHD program.
She is currently a full-time lecturer in the School
of Information at San José State University.
Jeff Shulz,
Senior Associate,
is a senior executive and marketing professional with over 30 years of
experience. During his career, Jeff has worked on some of the most well-known
brands in BC and the country. Jeff was actively involved for many years with
BC’s Children’s Hospital; where he created and launched Jeans Day. He was joined
the board of Governors of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre company in 2006 and
was Chair from 2009 -2012. Jeff is the Vice Chair and incoming Chair of the
Board of Governors for the Vancouver International Wine Festival.
Jeff joined ICBC in 2006 as Vice President, Strategic
Marketing, where he was responsible for all brand and marketing initiatives. He
was appointed to the Executive Committee in 2009 and in 2011 was made Chief
Customer and Marketing Officer. Jeff has held VP Marketing positions with Future
Shop and VanCity and was Director, Lottery Marketing with the British Columbia
Lottery Corporation. He also has over nine years of experience as the Director,
Response Marketing, and Account Director at the agency, Bryant, Fulton & Shee,
where his business development efforts helped the agency grow from fourth to
second largest in BC.
Previous senior marketing roles with Royal Trust and
Hewlett-Packard Canada round out Jeff’s background.
Jeff has a Diploma in Business Administration from Wilfred Laurier University, a
Building and Leading Customer Centric Organizations Certificate from Harvard
Business School and completed the Services Marketing Institute Certificate
Program from Arizona State University.
Linda Barry,
Senior Associate,
draws on a wealth of accounting, auditing and related financial experience from
over twenty-five years in public accounting to contribute her expertise to the
financial aspects of any project. Victoria base, she has provided valuable
assistance in the way of business planning, financial management and objective
analysis in addition to the standard range of services in areas of accounting
and taxation to individuals, businesses, societies and non-profit organizations.
Her varied experience and pursuits reflect the ability to readily engage
in new endeavours. As a hands on accountant, she assists clients in all aspects
of financial accounting, as well as defining and implementing policies and
procedures and practical solutions.
Linda’s background has been primarily in public practice accounting; she holds
a CPA, CGA designation, has been a business owner and partner in public
practice for many years, and a tax manager for PriceWaterhouse Coopers.
Rob Abbott,
Senior Associate,
and Principal of Abbott Strategies
is a strategy and sustainability specialist who is
recognized nationally for his solutions to organizational challenges.
Rob is based in Victoria.
In particular, Rob helps organizations create
scenarios to better understand how environmental, social, cultural and financial
forces influence their strategic choices.
This, in turn, drives the creation of strategies
with both “core” and “contingent” features.
Core features will convey organizational benefit
under any set of operational and competitive conditions; contingent features are
implemented only when a particular condition (or set of conditions) emerges.
Over the past 20 years Rob has helped to guide many of the
companies and organizations throughout Canada and internationally who defined
what might be called sustainability 1.0 – the first generation of sustainability
thinking and work (City of Vancouver, City of Seattle, Starbucks, NIKE, VanCity,
BC Hydro, others). This was a natural extension of his doctoral research and
management consulting focus on “future proofing” both for-profit and
not-for-profit organizations.
A key feature of Rob’s work – with business,
government, NGOs and academia – is his ability to bridge the gap between
strategy creation and effective strategy implementation.
He works with his clients to identify and engage key
internal and external stakeholders in the strategy creation process to build
understanding and ownership.
He also helps his clients focus increasingly scarce
resources where they will have the greatest organizational benefit, measure the
results to confirm benefits, and refine the strategy as necessary in real-time.
This approach drives real performance improvement,
builds trust capital among key stakeholders, and enhances organizational
reputation.
Underlying Rob’s attitude and approach to everything he does is his abiding
interest in values, passion, innovation, adaptation, and organizational ideology
– and the way these are forged, tested and implemented by the people and
organizations with whom he works.
At other points in his career, Rob has served as Practice
Leader in two of the world’s largest and most respected management consulting
firms – Deloitte and Touche and Coopers & Lybrand
(now PriceWaterhouseCoopers).
He has also served as CEO of one of Canada’s
Networks of Centres of Excellence.
Janice Irwin,
Senior Associate,
and Principal of Equinox Consulting,
is a Certified Management Accountant and experienced municipal government
Finance Manager with over twenty years’ experience in senior municipal
positions. She has worked in both a smaller municipality (City of Chilliwack,
BC) and a large municipality (City of North Vancouver, BC), with prior
experience in the private sector. Janice recently retired from the City of North
Vancouver and now consults in the local government sector. Janice is based in
Vancouver.
Finance is Janice's core area of expertise and there are
very few finance related topics that she is not very familiar, and comfortable,
with.
Janice has lead in a senior management role in her
municipal positions and has also developed and taught courses in these areas.
In the City of North Vancouver Janice was a key
staff resource in the implementation of several new business systems and played
a key role in business process review and revision of existing processes.
Janice continues to develop and deliver programs for
the Government Finance Officers Association (“GFOA”) of B.C.’s.
In 2011 she developed and delivered a Budgeting
Webinar for BC Budget and Finance Officers. Janice
continues to provide training and program development in
the Advanced Budgeting and Long Term Financial Planning area with a new offering
fall of 2012.
Janice is a skilled presenter and facilitator and enjoys
working in a team environment.
In her Local Government positions, Janice's roles included the management of all
Finance functions including; Payroll, Budgeting, Accounting, Financial
Reporting, Asset Management, Revenue Services, Taxes and Utilities and
Investment and Cash Flow Management. 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.
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.
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
André
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.
Kyle Guilfoyle,
Associate, Kyle holds a Bachelor of Music from McGill University and a Master of
Music from the University of Toronto where he was supported by two fellowships
and a scholarship.
He has also initiated training toward the Chartered Professional Accountant
designation and has studied finance through the Rotman School of Management in
Toronto. Through the study and
performance of historical music, Kyle has conducted extensive research on
performance practice before 1850. In September 2017, Kyle will be starting a
Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Victoria’s
Gustavson School of Business. In addition to his
performance career, Kyle has over a decade of experience consulting to, and
management of, public focused service organizations including
helping to streamline operations and enrich communication
between hospitality professionals and guests.
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.
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