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Mentorship Resources/Speed Mentoring (view source)
Revision as of 14:30, 20 January 2021
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|Came into the PS through post-secondary recruitment. Did two postings abroad as an Immigration Foreign Service Officer interviewing applicants for temporary and permanent status in Canada. Then gravitated towards assignments focused on people management, learning, and organizational development. Took a mid-career break to go back to school. Returned to IRCC and worked in the Operations Sector, Policy Sector, Corporate Sector and now the Settlement and Integration Sector. Led many change projects over the years involving new technology, new business processes, new org structures, and organizational capacity building.
|Came into the PS through post-secondary recruitment. Did two postings abroad as an Immigration Foreign Service Officer interviewing applicants for temporary and permanent status in Canada. Then gravitated towards assignments focused on people management, learning, and organizational development. Took a mid-career break to go back to school. Returned to IRCC and worked in the Operations Sector, Policy Sector, Corporate Sector and now the Settlement and Integration Sector. Led many change projects over the years involving new technology, new business processes, new org structures, and organizational capacity building.
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|Nicole Bouchard-Steeves
|Associate Vice President, Operations
|Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Operations
|Nicole Bouchard-Steeves is currently the Associate Vice-President (AVP) of the Operations Branch for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science, with a specialization in Biochemistry and a certificate in Food Science from Laval University.
Nicole began her career as a public servant in 1988 with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and subsequently joined the CFIA upon its creation in 1997. Her career began as an Inspection Officer and has remained largely focussed on the core delivery of the CFIA’s operational mandate. She has held various positions throughout her career, including Director General for the Atlantic Area and Executive Director of the Operations Modernization Project Office. Nicole’s current position as the AVP targets Nicole’s strengths – keen understanding of CFIA’s business and building relationships with internal and external partners.
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|'''<big>Andrew Goldstein</big>'''
|Director General Human Resources
|Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Corporate Management Branch
|Andrew Goldstein is currently Director General, Human Resources at Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC), where he is responsible for leading all aspects of the human resources function for the department.
Prior to this, Andrew has held a number of economic analysis and policy development positions at AAFC.
Andrew began his career in the federal government as an economist at the Department of Finance and then the Privy Council Office.
Andrew has a B.A. and M.A. in economics both from the University of Western Ontario.
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|'''<big>Neil O'Rourke</big>'''
|Assistant Commissioner
|Canadian Coast Guard, Arctic Region
|Neil O’Rourke was appointed Assistant Commissioner, Arctic Region, Canadian Coast Guard in October 2018.
As the Assistant Commissioner for the newly-formed Arctic Region, Neil will enhance program and service delivery in the North to better meet the needs of those communities.
He will ensure that Northerners have a greater say in the Department’s decisions and opportunities, and will honour the Government of Canada’s commitment to reconciliation and a renewed relationship with Indigenous peoples. Neil will also build partnerships, co-develop priorities and support the voice of Northerners.
Neil has a decade of experience working with the Canadian Coast Guard. He previously served as Senior Director, Safe Shipping and Economic Intelligence and was responsible for the development of national strategies to sustain and transform Coast Guard’s marine navigation programs, including: Aids to Navigation, Marine Communications and Traffic Services, Waterways Management, and Icebreaking and Ice Information Services. Neil was also the national lead for Arctic program policy, user fees, the implementation of e-Navigation in Canadian waters, and served as councillor with the International Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authority (IALA) on behalf of Canada. He previously worked as the Director, Integrated Logistic Support and Director, Organizational Restructuring for Coast Guard.
Over the course of his career, Neil has worked closely with Coast Guard operations, technical services, training (Canadian Coast Guard College), other Government of Canada departments, and external stakeholders (i.e. industry, communities, national and international organizations) to identify service requirements, leverage technological and operational innovations, and competently drive decisions for cost-effective, modern and domestically/internationally aligned marine navigation services. He has also led several corporate initiatives including the consolidation of five Coast Guard regions into three, and co-led the Departmental Comprehensive Review.
Before joining Coast Guard, Neil gained significant private sector experience as a former management consultant and executive in the energy sector; specifically, with Petro-Canada Fuels.
Neil holds degrees from two Canadian universities: a Bachelor of Commerce from Carleton University (2002), and a Master of Business Administration—International Business from the University of Ottawa (2003). Originally from Aylmer, Quebec, he currently resides with his family in Yellowknife, NT.
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