ReWerx Background & Experience

Our clients represent organizations of all sizes across all sectors and include members of the Fortune 500 and the Canadian Financial Post 100, in such sectors as: major cities, education, energy, engineering, financial services, forest products, governments, healthcare, mining, 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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charlotte Young, Senior Associate, has over twenty-five years experience in promoting sound organizational and public policy solutions by involving the public and stakeholders in decisions and improving how governments and non-governmental organizations operate.

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; Toronto’s Bio-solids strategy; stakeholder initiatives to develop the Fifth National Forest Strategy for Canada; and, Ontario’s first strategic plan for environmental education.

She has also been involved in numerous other strategic initiatives, including: Ontario’s biodiversity strategy, premier’s summit on agri-food, and Niagara Region’s water strategy. In addition to designing and leading the implementation of multi-stakeholder processes, she has designed and led training on facilitation, strategic planning, conflict management and program evaluation.

Charlotte holds a Ph.D. in environmental psychology from The University of Michigan. She is a certified mediator and facilitator.

André Guitard , Associate, and the president of CAG Consultation (Hawkesbury, ON). He is fully bilingual and a native of the National Capital Region.

He offers consulting services in organizational management, project management and training. He is a professional coach specialized in executive coaching. He is an experienced bilingual facilitator.

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 Paediatric Health Centres in the development of a national resource of best practices in the enhancement of continuity of care with complex health care needs.

André graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Masters degree in Counselling and received his coaching training from the Adlerian School of Professional Coaching in Toronto.

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 Carleton University and has served on the Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver Compensation Groups. He has also served on the Canadian Board of World at Work (formerly Canadian Compensation Association).

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 British Columbia for 10 years and has considerable experience in organizational design, operational process analysis and implementation, productivity and efficiency improvement, and quality management in a union environment.

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 University of Manitoba and is also enrolled in the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Business Administration Program.

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.