SPEAKERS BUREAU
If you need a speaker for a coming event, one of the following people may be available to present to your audience. Areas of expertise are included below to enable you to select an appropriate presenter.
Each of these people will also present in their own regions on behalf of the Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council.
To organize a presentation on a Council-related topic, to connect with any of the speakers listed below, or to join the speakers bureau, contact Kim Biggar, at kbiggar@supplychaincanada.org.
Please note that, in most cases, presenters' travel expenses will need to be reimbursed, but no presentation fees are charged by these speakers.
Jim Bergeron
Director
Calgary Interfaith Food Bank
Areas of Expertise
- Development and implementation of logistics strategic plans
- Supply chain contingency planning
- Management of bulk-material supply chains
- Using KPIs to enhance performance
Availability
- Across Canada
- English and French
Biography
Shawn Casemore
Power in Procurement
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Areas of Expertise
- Leveraging trends in supply chain management
- How to build winning supplier relationships
- Dramatically increasing profitability with reduced sales
- Understanding fundamental negotiation strategies
- Key steps to successful ERP implementation
- Improving team morale to deliver exceptional results
- Strategic procurement in highly regulated environments
Availability
Biography
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Yvonne Ewing
Forensberg Group
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Areas of Expertise
- Lean supply chain
- Risk mitigation
- Win/win negotiation
- C-TPAT requirements
- Sustainability procurement decisions
- Sustainable strategic planning
- Ethical business practices
- Six Sigma - Green Belt training
- Delighting customers through the supply chain
Availability
Biography
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Fergus Groundwater
Program Lead, Global Trade Management Centre of Innovation
Export Development Canada
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Areas of Expertise
- Supply chain strategy
- Procurement
- Supply chain finance
- Supply chain technology
- Accounts payable management, e-payables, payment automation and cash management
Availability
- Across Canada
- English and French
Biography
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Maria Lindenberg
Vice President
Chevron Global Downstream Procurement
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Areas of Expertise
- Strategic procurement/supply chain management
- Procurement operations
- Category management
Availability
- In western Canada
- English
Biography
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Richard Moore
President and CEO
Halifax Employers Association
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Areas of Expertise
- Labour relations and human resources
- Collective bargaining
- Problem solving/ADR
- Health and safety, disability management
- Multi-employer organizations
- Multi-union organizations
- Longshoring industry
- Operating under federal jurisdiction as it relates to labour
- Training
- Performance management
- Grievance and arbitration administration
- Running a not-for-profit industry association
Availability
Biography
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Terry Nusyna
President
TN Security Intelligence
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Areas of Expertise
- Workplace violence prevention
- Reducing liability in consideration of Bill C-45 and Bill 168
- Employee awareness training
- Location security assessment and access controls
- Cost-effective security upgrades
- Business traveler security – meetings and conferences
- Supply chain security programs – C-TPAT and PIP
- Why and how to join, ROI
- Avoiding unnecessary spending on security
- How to remain in a secured supply chain
- How to maintain a secure supply chain
Availability
- Across Canada and globally
- English
Biography
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Heather MacNeil
Project Manager, Occupational Standards Project
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Areas of Expertise
- Leadership coaching and training
- Career transition
- Human resources, including reward and recognition, strategic HR planning, talent management and workforce planning, compensation and organizational design
- Change and project management
- Diversity and workplace equity with particular focus on disability awareness training
- Call-centre planning and management
Availability
Biography
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Kevin A. Maynard, CAE
Executive Director
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Areas of Expertise
- Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council
- Human resource issues in the sector
- Partnerships and collaboration (strategies and tactics)
- Using labour market information (LMI) effectively to make good decisions
- Career development and linkages to the supply chain sector
- Occupational standards within the supply chain sector
- Canada's approach to workforce planning, the Sector Council Program
Availability
Biography
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