2019 Partners

Southern Butler Price LLP is a Canadian law firm that specializes in employment and labour law, especially in the area of workplace investigations and dispute resolution. We are a team of lawyers and human resources and labour relations practitioners who provide neutral, fair and skilled investigation services for complex complaints involving sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying to both public and private organizations across British Columbia, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon and beyond. Our mission is that we are dedicated to making the culture of work productive.

Our experienced team has helped hundreds of clients across Canada in all sectors including government, education, forestry, mining and manufacturing. We are committed to supporting positive and respectful workplace cultures and dealing with serious issues in a timely and fair manner.

Workplace investigations, post-investigation rebuild, arbitration, mediation, environmental scans, training and executive coaching are just some of the services we provide to help build exceptional workplaces that thrive.

For more information, visit www.southernlaw.ca

Homewood Health is the Canadian leader in mental health and addiction services. With over 130 years of experience, we achieve outstanding outcomes every day through our national network of employees and clinical experts and through the Homewood Health Centre -- one of Canada's largest and leading facilities for medical treatment of medical health and addiction disorders. Homewood Ravensview which opened in June 2019 in Victoria B.C. provides the most comprehensive private mental health and addiction treatment in Western Canada. Our complete continuum of services includes organizational wellness, assistance programs, assessments, outpatient and inpatient treatment, recovery management, return-to-work and family-support services customized to meet the specialized needs of individuals and organizations. Homewood Health is redefining mental health and addiction services to help Canadians live healthier, more productive and more fulfilling lives.

For more information visit, homewoodhealth.com/corporate.

ADP Canada gives organizations of every size the tools to help their people thrive. From basic payroll and processes to complex people management systems and analytics, we help business leaders make better decisions and focus on strategic priorities.

Our clients trust ADP to manage critical back office functions, including payroll, time and attendance talent and performance management and reporting. Business leaders also look to ADP to provide strategic insights and expertise to help them build and inspire the workforce they need for long-term growth and success.

For more information call 1 866-228- 9675, visit adp.ca or follow @ADP_CDA.

Alberta Blue Cross is Alberta’s largest benefit provider, serving more than 1.7 million Albertans. We serve hundreds of thousands of individual plan members, over 5,700 employer groups, and administer several government-sponsored programs. Over the years, Alberta Blue Cross has received various significant recognitions and awards including recognition as one of Alberta’s Top 25 Most Respected Organizations, one of Alberta’s Top 10 Most Loved Brands, one of Alberta’s Top 40 Largest Corporations, one of Alberta’s Top 75 Employers and one of Canada’s Top 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures.

A nearly-70-year history brings with it a lot of accomplishments, but what we’re most proud of is remaining an organization that works for and with Albertans.

For more information, visit: www.ab.bluecross.ca

Elevated HR Solutions offers a full range of people strategies including but not limited to employment branding, recruitment strategy and design, administration set-up, compensation analysis and design, performance management strategy and design, payroll, employee handbook development as well as termination support and outplacement.

Since 2010, we have been helping businesses of all sizes to contain their HR costs, minimize employer-related risks and free up time and resources so managers and leaders can get back to doing what they do best.

We are a team of HR and marketing professionals that work hand in hand with you, ensuring your business can capitalize on efficiencies internally and externally. We value both your time and the bottom line – our solutions are easy to implement, cost-efficient and are value driven.

Our goal is to bring a fresh perspective to Human Resources. Building employee experiences that matter, we focus on cutting edge ideas in addition to best practices. The Elevated team was the recipient of the 2016 Human Resources Institute of Alberta Team Excellence award and a 2016 Canadian HR Awards finalist for Best Canadian External HR Advisor / Consultancy of the Year. In addition, Michelle won the Innovator of the Year Award from Canadian Business Chicks. In addition, we are the team behind Disrupt HR in Calgary.

For more information, visit: www.elevatedhr.com

Established in 2002, Refinery is an international leadership development firm. We empower organizations to achieve unprecedented results by aggressively accelerating leadership development throughout their business. We bring an alternative approach and highly progressive methods to leadership development. In partnership with our clients, we distill their business objectives into practical and powerful development opportunities. We employ non-linear thinking to produce disruptive strategies targeted at advancing learning, enhancing performance, and creating competitive advantages throughout the organization. By aligning people to the business strategy; unifying culture, and creating the conditions for staff to develop and grow every day, we create the conditions in which success is inevitable.

For more information, visit: https://refineryleadership.com/

Procept Associates Ltd. is a leader in management education with offices coast-to-coast across Canada as well as in the USA and overseas. Procept’s management training business started in 1965 and since then it has trained over one million people from over 17,000 organizations through its various brands and subsidiaries including TidalShift and Practical Management. Procept provides training through the continuing education departments of nearly a dozen Canadian and U.S. universities, is the official management training provider to many government bodies, and provides in-house training to many corporations and non-profit organizations.

Procept takes a holistic approach to employee development (our Organizational LiftTM Model) that starts with assessments to determine development needs, proceeds with targeted and customized training, includes coaching to help people apply new knowledge and skills to their daily jobs, provides sustainment elements to provide momentum to the desired performance changes, and recommends changes to employee performance targets to make them more accountable for making the changes permanent. We provide solutions across all these elements including over 200 classroom courses, numerous job aids, just-in-time e-learning options, and countless recorded webinars, videos, articles and whitepapers. Procept also gives back to the community by hosting free conferences and learning events.

For more information, visit: https://procept.com/

O.C. Tanner, the global leader in engaging workplace cultures, helps thousands of top companies create peak moments that inspire people to achieve, appreciate, and connect to purpose and each other. From Boston to Bengaluru, clients use O.C. Tanner’s Culture Cloud™ to retain, engage, and attract talent, bond teams, drive innovation, and communicate company values.

With apps for recognition, service awards, wellbeing, leadership, and celebrations, Culture Cloud gives you a single, modular suite of integrated tools for crafting a world-class workplace culture. Because when your apps work together, your people do, too.

Culture is elusive, but powerful. And worth getting right. That’s why great companies create great experiences. Because experiences fuel connections, and connections are what great culture, and great work, is all about. Learn how you can influence greatness and help people thrive at work with O.C. Tanner’s Culture Cloud at octanner.com.

“The Ivey Academy at Ivey Business School is the home for Learning & Development (L&D) in Canada. Drawing on faculty, speakers, and real-world cases from the Ivey Business School and a range of industry partners, our programs are designed to prepare modern business leaders with the operational skills, strategic vision, and self-awareness to drive lasting behavior change.

L&D is key in creating a high-performing, succession-ready organization. Teams need to attract top talent and seamlessly cultivate the next generation of leaders, while also navigating unprecedented challenges. The Ivey Academy applies a deep foundation of research and expertise to the practical side of leadership in today’s business landscape. Blending Financial Times top-ranked executive education with talent assessment, instructional design, executive coaching, and corporate retreats, we help organizations overcome disruption and thrive in complex new environments.

As one of the world’s leading executive education institutes we are positioned to deliver programs for both custom clients and individuals at campuses in Toronto and London, Ontario. The Ivey Academy is a place where professionals come to get better – to break old habits, practice skills, obtain coaching & support, and join a powerful peer network of alumni from across sectors.”

For more information visit: iveyacademy.ca.

Wello is a Canadian virtual healthcare service that helps your employees get well when they’re sick and keep well every day. We believe the health of employees is directly related to corporate performance and 97% of employers agree. Chances are your employees don’t receive the support they need to effectively manage their health. That’s where Wello comes in.

Employees can speak with Wello Nurse Practitioners about their health concerns over video or phone, during regular office hours. For urgent care support, we are available by phone 24/7. Wello does more than help employees get well, we also help keep them that way by providing mental health, nutrition, and life-transition support.

For more information, visit: wello.ca.

At D2L, we know learning. D2L is the learning platform for people who value employee development as a driver of business success. Our modern learning platform helps prepare and engage your workforce with a personalized learner experience, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, Social AssessmentTM, video assignments and more.

Brightspace, our platform, is a world leader in content creation and curation, and enables employers to act in real time to keep workers on track.  With a fully open API, D2L can easily integrate into your existing technology ecosystem.

D2L is used by millions of learners in the enterprise sector, including Fortune 1000 companies. D2L has operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Singapore.

For more information visit: D2L.com/FUSION.