Join us on Thursday, Feb. 16 (9:00-10:30am MST) via Zoom for a panel discussion followed by a Q&A around building resilience in the workplace through positive workplace ,mental health and EDI practices. Our panelists will bring provincial and national insight.
Panelists:
Brandy Payne: Founder, Thriving Workplaces, Former Associate Minister of Health
Brandy Payne helps leaders and their teams build a workplace where mental health can thrive. She’s a CMHA-Certified Psychological Health & Safety Advisor, helping leaders foster a healthy workplace culture, while addressing the underlying factors that impact workplace mental health.
Brandy has worked with organizations across all sectors, and is focused on meeting her Clients where they are at with tailor-made advice and strategies.
Jason Murray: President & Managing Partner, BIPOC Executive Search
Over the course of his career, Jason has worked on 500+ executive searches as well as a range of EDI services in partnership with client companies. Prior to founding BIPOC Executive Search Inc., Jason worked at a multinational executive search firm as well as a boutique search firm before that. For part of his career, he worked in the Consulting Division of Deloitte & Touche as the Human Capital and Strategy & Operations Supervisor. In this position he provided organizational management and HR services to the 994 individuals in the division, and was a respected voice around matters of equity, diversity, and inclusion and increasing representation throughout the organization.
Jason has a community-facing orientation, and currently serves as Chair of the Board for the Toronto Fringe Festival. He has done work with a number of organizations that have a deep and abiding commitment to representation in the workforce, including the Canadian Board Diversity Council, Fora (formerly G(irls)20), and Pride at Work Canada. He has facilitated EDI workshops and talks for a number of organizations and initiatives, including the African Canadian Women in the Public Service Network (ACWPS), Business for the Arts, Innovators Alliance, National Dialogues and Action for Inclusive Higher Education and Communities, Supply Chain Canada, Social Value Matters, and The Walrus. He has been a roundtable panelist with the likes of the Hon. Kathleen Wynne, CNN’s Van Jones, and so forth.
Jason holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, and a Master's degree in Management from Boston University (also the alma mater of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). He is certified in unconscious-bias decision making and iOS app development, and has completed courses on predictive data analytics and the use of artificial intelligence in recruitment and retention.
Miki Stricker - Talbot, Executive Director, Volunteer Alberta, Alberta Nonprofit Network Steward
Miki Stricker-Talbot is working to make the public good better, seeking futures that are equitable and just; nourishing and whole. As a settler based on Treaty 6 Lands in Edmonton, Miki serves as the Executive Director of Volunteer Alberta, and as a Network Steward with the Alberta Nonprofit Network. She believes in leading from a place of love, compassion, and curiosity, and strives to embody that practice through her work. Miki is the co-founder of the United Network of Innovative Change-agents Organizing to Realize New Strategies (U.N.I.C.O.R.N.S.) — an international movement for public sector innovators, and is a Global Fellow with the League of Intrapreneurs. Miki has been recognized as an Avenue Magazine Top 40 Under 40 alumna, a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, and is a recipient of the Alberta Centennial Medal. Most importantly, Miki is a mom to two amazing humans who help her (un)learn more about the world every day.
Moderator: Roy Pogorzelski
Roy Pogorzelski is Métis/Cree from Saskatchewan with his family coming from the communities of Meadow Lake, Green Lake and Flying Dust First Nation. Roy has been involved in the field of equity, diversity and inclusion for the past seventeen years working in the non-profit, business, academic, internationally and in government sectors.
Roy is a professional speaker and award winning Indigenous/Human rights activist. Roy works as an Associate Facilitator for the Canadian Center for Diversity and Inclusion, as an Allyship and Anti-Oppression Facilitator for One Voice One Team, an Indigenous Engagement Consultant with Harbour West Consulting and conducts research and facilitates training through his company RWP Consulting.
Roy is an avid community volunteer and has sat on many boards and committees and has volunteered his time at community events. Currently, Roy sits on the Chinook Sexual Assault Center Board of Directors and is on his second term as a Board Member with the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF).
