Our Team
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Shahid Luqman is a seasoned Human Resource Management professional with over 20 years of diverse experience across various organizational domains. With a strong focus on strategic planning and human resource development, Shahid has successfully managed HR activities across businesses and project sites for client groups. His core competencies include strategic planning, learning and development, performance and rewards management, organizational development, HR project management, succession planning, payroll, compensation and benefits, team leadership, team management, HR strategy, and business process re-engineering.
Throughout his career, Shahid has demonstrated his ability to align HR strategies with business objectives, effectively managing human resource management systems and addressing business issues. He has achieved notable accomplishments, such as recruiting over 1000 technical and non-technical professionals by implementing competency-based internal and external recruitment processes, resulting in a 200% enhancement in the recruitment process.
Shahid’s resourcefulness and expertise in cross-utilizing resources have yielded significant savings. For example, he successfully generated savings of $2 Million by sharing resources at projects and organizing cross-trainings. Furthermore, his restructuring of compensation and benefits led to a 9% reduction in employee turnover, while his redesign of the performance management and reward system resulted in a 30% reduction in payroll costs.
With a focus on enhancing process quality and speed, Shahid has revamped HRMS, developed HR policy manuals, and designed performance evaluation tools for measuring performance across the organizational hierarchy. He is adept at implementing change management strategies, fostering internalization, and executing planning, monitoring, feedback, and reinforcement actions.
Shahid’s ability to optimize resources extends to minimizing overhead project costs through process mapping and realigning resources. For example, he successfully reduced overhead costs by 15% at a production plant, highlighting his efficiency in streamlining operations.
In addition to his expertise in recruitment, training and development, performance and reward management, organizational development, and change management, Shahid possesses strong business acumen. His ability to understand and navigate the intricacies of the business landscape enables him to provide valuable insights and contribute to strategic HR initiatives.
Shahid Luqman is a highly skilled and strategic Human Resource Management professional with a proven track record of aligning HR strategies with business objectives. His extensive experience, expertise in various HR domains, and ability to drive change and optimize resources make him an invaluable asset to any organization.
Carol Duin is an accomplished Talent Acquisition professional with a proven track record of attracting and retaining top talent. With a passion for assisting leadership teams in implementing effective recruitment strategies, and Carol excels at aligning talent acquisition efforts throughout the organization. Additionally, she is keen to identify candidates with the right skills and cultural fit for specific roles, ensuring seamless integration within the team and the company.
Drawing from her extensive network and expertise in the hidden and passive talent market, Carol has achieved remarkable success rates by continuously communicating and building long-term relationships. She firmly believes trust and effective communication are paramount in creating lasting connections and successful recruitment outcomes.
As a dynamic and strategic advisor, Carol brings her outgoing personality and exceptional communication skills to every interaction. She understands the importance of personal touchpoints and aims to return the human element to the recruitment process. Instead of relying solely on Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Carol advocates for direct engagement with candidates, emphasizing the value of building meaningful relationships.
Specializing in both internal and external talent identification, Carol excels at creating a strong and continuous pipeline of candidates by leveraging the employer brand and implementing effective sourcing strategies. Her mantra of “Always Be Connecting” drives her efforts to build a robust talent network to meet the evolving needs of organizations.
With a natural ability to build meaningful relationships, Carol’s skill set as an experienced Talent Acquisition, HR Advisor, Recruiter, and Sourcing professional sets her apart. She understands that successful recruitment is vital for any business and offers scalable recruitment options.
Carol Duin is a dedicated Talent Acquisition expert with an unwavering commitment to identifying and securing the right people at the right time. Her strategic insights, exceptional relationship-building skills, and passion for recruitment make her an invaluable asset in building and sustaining successful organizations.
Roland is a senior Human Resources professional with 30 + years of experience as an HR generalist and leader. He collaborates effectively with individuals at all levels in an organization to facilitate the creation and maintenance of inspiring and engaging workplaces.
Roland believes that employees at every level need a combination of stability, trust, compassion and hope from their leaders in order to be inspired and remain engaged. The people systems he helps identify and implement, create and sustain the type of work environment that provides & supports these basic needs.
After starting his career in a manufacturing environment with General Motors and later Procter & Gamble, Roland went on to HR roles in a variety of union and non-union industries including automotive, consumer goods, printing, high-tech, oil & gas services and management consulting.
Some of his key accomplishments include researching and creating recommendations for a Total Compensation program; developing and implementing an Employee Performance Development program; revising and consolidating an Employee Handbook incorporating legislation from three countries; facilitating the change management project of a unionized public organization from its legacy ‘way of doing things’ to new processes, tools and leadership; assisting an organization in high growth mode to explode from 60 to 400 employees in less than 2 years; and at the other extreme, assisting an organization with the closure of its manufacturing facility, resulting in the elimination of 1,100 positions.
Roland’s professional development includes a Certificate in HR Management from the University of Toronto; the Advanced Program for HR Professionals, also from the University of Toronto and Instructional Skills Workshop (Train-the-Trainer) at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.
Roland holds a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University, as well as an MBA from the University of Windsor.