- The talent behind our success
Our People, Your People
Our team is carefully selected for their experience, culture alignment and passion for helping companies like yours achieve their goals.
Tom Nickalls
Founder & Chief Executive Officer,
He/Him
Tom, is a two-time founder and has been leading sales teams for over a decade. At one point in his career, he was terminated in an unprofessional manner. Since then, his mission has been to help forward-thinking small and medium businesses create custom HR strategies for today’s workforce.
Robyn Leduc, CHRL
Head of Human Resources,
She/Her
Robyn is a strong advocate of modern HR and has been a human Resources Professional for over 10 years, working in a broad array of sectors from construction to technology. She prides herself on her ability to align the needs of humans with the needs of businesses to create strong partnerships.
Madhav Mehta
Chief Revenue Officer, He/Him
Madhav is an award-winning business leader with a successful track record of building revenue streams, business development and change management. He knows what it takes to recruit, hire and develop high-performing teams. His emphasis on solution selling puts each incoming client in a position to succeed.
Alex Smeall, MBA
Head of Operations, He/Him
Alex has over a decade of experience working in a variety of roles across organizations ranging from very small to very big. He understands how to implement and manage the systems and processes necessary to deliver a world-class service.
MaryLisa Forsyth
HR Business Partner, She/Her
MaryLisa is a pioneer HR professional with over 30 years of HR management experience, mostly working in the public sector. Her specialties are transformational leadership, team building, managing change, and building labour relations strategy.
Lindsay Schultz
HR Business Partner, She/Her
Lindsay is a Senior HR Professional with over 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors. She is a small business owner with a strong background in conflict management, training and development, and evaluating core HR processes.
Anna Boshoer, CHRL
HR Business Partner, She/Her
Anna is an HR professional with over 10 years of experience in management, consultant and recruitment roles. Prior to HR, she worked in adult education and retains her passion for learning through coaching, mentorship and personal development initiatives.
Mike Daser, PHRi
HR Business Partner, He/Him
Mike is an HR professional with over 10 years of experience in management roles across a variety of industries. He has built and led teams, established corporate HR programs and policies, and has a strong passion for promoting Health & Safety in the workplace.
Jackie Gilkes
HR Business Partner, She/Her
Jackie is a senior HR professional with over 25 years of experience supporting leadership teams across multiple industries. She has spearheaded multiple HR Departments from nothing to fully functioning business partners with a seat at the head table.
Dana Dobiasova
HR Business Partner, She/Her/Elle
Dana is an HR professional with over 10 years of experience in both private and public sectors and a variety of industries, for both provincially and federally regulated companies. She is a huge advocate of coaching people up rather than out.
Stephanie Burns
HR Business Partner, She/Her
Stephanie is an HR professional with 10 years of multi-faceted experience. She considers herself a true Generalist, with a keen interest in Employee Relations, Performance Management, Talent Acquisition and Contract Management.
Stacey Kowal
HR Business Partner, She/Her
Stacey is a senior HR professional with 25 years of experience in a variety of senior leadership roles. She has a talent for capturing the big picture with an innate ability to design and institute HR enhancements that create successful organizations.
Jilaine Parkes
HR Business Partner, She/Her
Jilaine is a senior HR professional with 25 years of experience in a variety of senior leadership roles. She even founded her own Performance Management platform, SpriggHR, back in 2009.
Viviana Santa
HR Admin, She/Her
Viviana recently graduated from Western University with an Honour Specialization in HR and Management. While studying there, she served in leadership roles in multiple student organizations.
Lyndsy McDonald
Content Manager, She/Her
Lyndsy is a content producer extraordinaire who spent some time freelance copywriting after stints in chiropractic, personal support work and the beverage industry. She enjoys bringing Modern HR to the masses.
