Lorie is the Co-Founder and CEO at SPARK Creations & Company Inc., a training and development organization that inspires people and companies to create meaningful cultures and workplaces. Over the past 20 years, Lorie has cultivated her people and culture development, community relations, and leadership coaching experience through partnering with leaders, teams and organizations in […]
DisruptHR Vancouver: Interview With Kevin Hawryluk
We were fortunate to speak with Kevin about what brought him to Disrupt HR Vancouver and his role as a speaker.
DisruptHR Vancouver: Interview With Angie Coates
Angie Coates is a creative entrepreneur living in Vancouver, Canada. She’s also a designer, writer and talent consultant. Her passion is helping individuals lead more positive lives, create engaging communities, and build better work environments. Her approach is innovative; it combines over a decade of experience in business and management together with design and creativity. […]
DisruptHR Vancouver: Interview With Brenda Rigney
Brenda Rigney recently joined Nurse Next Door, the Canadian home care provider, in November 2015. She has an exciting mandate over the next 36 months to create people, process and technology solutions for their Heartquarters (what Nurse Next Door calls their Vancouver-based Head Office) and to enable the growth of 500 franchise operations over four continents. We […]
DisruptHR Vancouver: Interview With Matt Corker, The Corker Co
Matt Corker is People Consultant at The Corker Co in Vancouver, BC. Matt makes an impact on businesses by creating operational excellence, coaching and developing strong leaders, or presenting game-changing information. Area Matt leads and educates in include: leadership, strategic thinking, and innovation. A futuristic trend watcher, Matt is a committed volunteer in the Vancouver […]
The 5 Main Reasons Employees Leave Startups
Startups are vulnerable, and they depend on a number of interrelated resources working together to self-sustain into bigger and better stages of development.
The Cost of Office Politics
Making people compete for rewards and promotions tends to keep them on their toes. Ideally, a corporate culture encourages people to be the best they can be.
The Rise of People and Culture
This article was originally posted here and was written by By Rocky Ozaki, Director of People and Culture at Rise People. From a very young age, I knew my calling was to empower, inspire, and generally help as many people as I could. Nurturing babies was more interesting to me than playing with a GI […]
Building Strong Internal Relationships Is a Personal Thing
Building collaborative work relationships is a challenge for many people. Relationship building is generally not taught in schools and it’s rarely taught to those who join the managerial ranks. There is a big problem with that.
How Personality Profiling Can Help You Engage With Disengaged Employees
You can’t assume your employees are engaged just because they’re checking off tasks. People can perform efficiently without being emotionally invested in their contributions to the organization.