2010 Awards Winners

Winner Acceptance Speeches

Winners were announced at the Gala Award Dinner on Tuesday January 26th, 2010 in the South Building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

The Carswell HR Rising Star Award

Heidi Hauver, CHRP
HR Manager, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)

As the first HR manager for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, Heidi Hauver has been a change agent and builder for the organization while it’s undergone a significant cultural transformation. She volunteers on many boards including Make A Wish of Eastern Ontario and HRPA Ottawa, and currently serves as chair for the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre.

Export Development Canada, Innovation in Employment Branding Award

Export Development Canada

Guilherme Dias
Director, Strategic Talent Management, Pitney Bowes Canada

Since joining Pitney Bowes Canada in 2007, Guilherme Dias has transformed the company’s employer brand by engaging internal stakeholders and external partners such as industry councils, associations and business schools. His diversity work has earned the firm the International Innovation Award for Excellence in Diversity by Diversity Journal.

TD Insurance Meloche Monnex Corporate Governance Award

TD Insurance Meloche Monnex

Sandra Cain
Director, HR Shared Services, Pitney Bowes Canada

Over the past two years Sandra Cain has made a huge impact in building the credibility of Pitney Bowes Canada’s HR Shared Services team. Her work has resulted in effective governance of HR policies, procedures and systems to provide seamless services to employees and managers. She also designed 15 workshops to train managers on the company’s HR transformation initiative.

Teva Novopharm Overall Talent Management Award

Teva Novopharm

Andrew Miller, SHRP
Director of Training, Sysco Foodservices of Canada

Andrew Miller is in charge of talent management for Sysco Foodservices of Canada. Andrew developed a leadership development program for Sysco’s Canadian operations that has directly impacted the organization’s profitability. Under the leadership of its new home-grown executive team, Sysco Canada has ranked first in performance since 2008.

GlaxoSmithKline Innovation in Total Rewards Award

GlaxoSmithKline

Sandi Channing
Director, Total Rewards, Compass Group Canada

As Compass Group Canada’s director of total rewards, Sandi Channing developed and implemented a Total Rewards strategy affecting 18,000 employees. The strategy has resulted in high employee satisfaction levels evidenced by high engagement and benefits survey scores. Channing’s work has helped Compass Canada earn MacLean’s Top 100 Employers in Canada award for the past two years.

Globe and Mail Corporate Social Responsibility Award

Unfortunately due to insufficient nominations, this award will not be presented this year. We urge you to get your nominations in for the 2011 HR Summit Awards to ensure that the excellent achievements in this area can be recognized.

We thank The Globe and Mail for their continued support of this award and their commitment to the HR profession.

Right Management HR Academic of the Year Award

Right Management

Dr. Deborah Zinni
Associate Professor, Brock University

Dr. Deborah Zinni is a professor and chair of Organizational Behaviour, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship and Ethics at Brock University. She helped develop Brock’s new Masters of Science Program for Human Resources/Organizational Behaviour and is a co-author of Managing Human Resources Management. Before entering academics, she worked for over 20 years in senior HR roles.

Toronto Star HR Professional of the Year Award

Toronto Star

Brenda Brown
Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Compass Group Canada

As Compass Group Canada’s HR chief, Brenda Brown developed new HR programs and services that successfully impacted morale, team work and internal communications for 22,000 associates. Her business-aligning initiatives have included training programs to control overspending and labour costs and a consistent labour relations approach across Canada.

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2010 Awards Winners

Heidi Hauver, CHRP HR Manager, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)

Guilherme Dias Director, Strategic Talent Management, Pitney Bowes Canada

Sandra Cain Director, HR Shared Services, Pitney Bowes Canada

Andrew Miller, SHRP Director of Training, Sysco Foodservices of Canada

Sandi Channing Director, Total Rewards, Compass Group Canada

Dr. Deborah Zinni Associate Professor, Brock University