MacLeod Silver HR Business Partners
Who We Are
Since 2013, MacLeod Silver HRBP has helped employers develop effective inclusive hiring and retention strategies, build capacity within organizations to be more inclusive through training and recruitment services, and connect people with disabilities to well-paying, long term career opportunities.
MacLeod Silver partners with organizations to increase workforce inclusion of people with disabilities in Canada.
Our passionate and collaborative approach, combined with over 30 years of experience and expertise, is what we’re known for.
Why We Are involved
I’m involved in inclusive employment because I share the fundamental belief that everyone has the opportunity to contribute to their career of choice when barriers, if any, are removed. It’s the barriers, whether these be physical or in HR practices, that hold people back from fully contributing – not the person’s disability.
When we focus on abilities in relation to opportunities, it shifts the dynamics of what’s possible.
I believe it’s easy to be inclusive with the right support and that’s why I’m here.
Accessibility Initiatives
As Principal Consultant with MacLeod Silver, I continually supported diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion projects and this became a passionate niche and focus for my business.
I led the development, launched, and took the operational lead of BC Partners in Workforce Innovation (BC WiN), an initiative the expanded to CAN WiN and created the Four Pillars of Accessible Employment model.
Other initiatives include:
- Developed and led ‘Stars for Success,’ an initiative to connect street youth to employment in 4 and 5 star hotels in Vancouver, while working as Director of Human Resources at The Westin Grand Hotel.
- Led an initiative for BC’s tourism and hospitality sector after the 2010 Games, focused on increasing workforce inclusion of people with disabilities in the sector.
- Founder and operational lead of BC WiN and CAN WiN.
- BC WiN led to identifying and developing the Four Pillars of Accessible and Inclusive Employment which became a signature foundational approach, including training that employers could relate to.
- Co-created Untapped Talent B2B Guide on Innovative Recruitment and Retention in 2020, a practical business guide on how to adjust each stage in the recruitment and retention process to better engage people with disabilities and people who reside in the downtown east side of Vancouver.
- From 2020-2023, led the development of recruitment and retention recommendations to Accessibility Standards Canada to support The Accessible Canada Act.
- Participated in selecting CAN WiN team members, including hiring people with disabilities to join the team at a known rate of 50%.
- Recently, just took on the national lead for an initiative for Canada’s Tourism sector to increase workforce inclusion of people with disabilities – to be formally announced December 2024.
