CBC 2022 Speed Mentoring

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Mentorship Resources

Speed Mentoring (February 23rd and 24th, 2022)

The speed mentoring portion of the CBC 2022 is aimed at connecting public servants of all levels (including students and young professionals) with knowledgeable and insightful employees for networking and mentoring (EX status is not a requirement to participate as a mentor). This special series of events enables public service professionals (that’s you!) to virtually connect with and learn from the experiences of GC leaders.

WHAT:

Adapted from our flagship, in-person networking events, this year’s #CBC_CDC will see three, 90-minute sessions of virtual, structured networking. Groups of 5-6 young professionals will meet with one mentor for 15 minutes at a time (through Zoom breakout rooms). There will be four rounds of networking per session.

This will be an opportunity for mentors to share their advice with and answer questions from mentees related to career development, work-life balance, and the inner workings of the Government of Canada. Mentees will be able to ask questions to and seek advice from mentors on the topics that matter most to them as they advance their careers. More information and instructions will follow post registration. #MentorGC

Resources

Coming soon!

WHO:

All public servants are invited to be mentees.

WHEN:

Session 1 (English): Wednesday, February 23, from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. EST *Registration link will be live on Feb 9*

Mentor names to be added shortly!

Session 2 (French): Thursday, February 24, from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. EST *Registration link will be live on Feb 9*

Mentor names to be added shortly!

Session 3 (English): Thursday, February 24, from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. EST *Registration link will be live on Feb 9*

Mentor names to be added shortly!

WHERE:

Online, via Zoom.

Mentors

Name	Position	Department	Biography
Steven Kasouf	Deputy Director, Operations, Access to Information and Privacy	Department of Fisheries and Oceans	I have been working in the field of Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) for 10 years and have really enjoyed it. I have worked for four different government departments in various capacities as an Analyst, Team Leader, Deputy Director and even a few months as a Director of ATIP. I have learned a lot about the profession and have worked with great people. I enjoy the manner in which the work is measured in that there is a beginning and an end and then move on to the next file. I enjoy training employees in the profession as well as those that are responsible for responding to ATIP requests and how the process works outside of the ATIP office. There is always very interesting information in processing ATIP requests so I have learned a lot about different departments and what type of information is held under the control of government institutions.
Alfred MacLeod	Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Service Accessibility	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat	Alfred MacLeod was appointed to the position of Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Service Accessibility at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat in October 2018. From 2017 to 2018, Alfred was Assistant Deputy Minister at Public Services and Procurement Canada, where he oversaw the Canada Post Corporation Review. Previously, Alfred was Assistant Deputy Minister of PSPC’s Policy, Planning and Communications Branch. Other experience includes a two-year Executive Interchange with CBC/Radio-Canada as Executive Director of Corporate Affairs, as well as previous Assistant Deputy Minister positions at the Privy Council Office and Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Before joining the federal public service, Alfred was Senior Vice-President, Public Policy, at EKOS Research Associates Inc. Alfred holds degrees in History and Education from Acadia University, and a MPhil (Politics) from the University of Exeter, U.K.
Christiane Fox	Deputy Minister	Indigenous Services Canada	Christiane Fox was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Indigenous Services in September 2020. She is also the Deputy Minister Champion of the Federal Youth Network. Prior to her appointment, Christiane had been the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs since November 2019, and the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Youth from June 2017 to November 2019. She also held several positions at the Privy Council Office, including Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Communications and Consultations, Director of Operations, Policy, in the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Relations Secretariat, and Director General of Communications. Christiane started her career as a Communications Advisor at Industry Canada, now Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, where she worked in Communications, and in Science Policy. She also spent a year with the Competition Policy Review Secretariat, as the Director of Communications and Consultations. Christiane has a BA in Mass Communications and Psychology from Carleton University, and is a graduate of the University of Ottawa’s Masters Certificate Program in Public Administration.
Fiona Crowley	Director of Business Intelligence and Quality Assurance, Western Region	Canada Revenue Agency	Fiona Crowley has worked with Canada Revenue Agency since 2005. She has a Commerce Degree from the University of Manitoba and a CPA, CMA designation and is a graduate of the CRA Middle Management Development Program. Fiona has held various positions within the CRA including working in Audit, Appeals, the Winnipeg Tax Centre, and the Regional Programs Office. She was the acting Assistant Director of the Audit division at the Winnipeg Tax Services Office until May 2021 when she took on the role of Director of Business Intelligence and Quality Assurance for the Western Region. Fiona has two children and enjoys camping and skiing in her free time.
Brock Belliveau	Client Experience Manager, Pension Operations	Public Services and Procurement Canada	Brock Belliveau is the Manager of Specialized Pension Services at the Government of Canada Pension Centre in Shediac, New Brunswick with Public Services and Procurement Canada. After a 13 years as a Human Resources Professional in the Federal Public Service, he continues his pursuit of empowering people, fostering collaboration and pushing the boundaries of innovation and service excellence. An avid sailor and dedicated father, Brock’s pursuit of having a positive impact on those around him can be seen through his volunteer coaching with youth hockey and soccer as well in his active support for community organizations helping those in need.
Megan Young	Director of Acceleration, Integration and Emerging Technology	Canada Border Services Agency	Megan Young is the Director of Acceleration, Integration and Emerging Technology within CBSA’s Border Technology Innovation Directorate. She joined the Agency in January 2021, and has followed a meandering route to her current position. Megan graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting, and despite spending her work terms and summers working with HRSDC (now ESDC) and International Trade Canada (now part of GAC), she started her career in the private sector. Megan worked as an auditor at Deloitte, helped to shore up the Canadian automotive supply chain at Export Development Canada during the 2008 financial crisis, and joined the Royal Canadian Navy for a few years. Upon the completion of her MBA in the Management of Technology and Innovation, Megan joined Gartner Consulting, working as a management consultant focusing on tech strategy, organizational design and operating models. She then took advantage of an opportunity to put theory into practice and spent a year at Shared Services Canada before accepting an offer to join CBSA. Megan is a member of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation. She has lived in six provinces, a dozen or so cities, and has travelled to six continents.
John Medcof	Lead Faculty	Canada School of Public Service	John Medcof is Lead Faculty at the Canada School of Public Service. In this role he facilitates executive leadership programs and provides strategic advice and direction on executive learning and faculty recruitment. Prior to this role, John was Director General of Transferable Skills at the School. In addition to his experience in learning design and delivery, John has extensive experience developing policies and programs, and working in a central agency. Before joining the School, John was the Executive Director of Strategic Policy at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. He joined the Government of Canada in 2004 after a career in business in the private sector. John is passionate about promoting human-centered leadership at all levels, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion in the public service. He works from Ottawa but is an advocate for distributed teams and regional perspectives.
Julie Bastarache	Director General, Evaluation and Integrated Risk Management	Public Services and Procurement Canada	Julie is a bilingual CPA, CA and CFE with over 20 years of global experience in the private, public and humanitarian sectors. She considers herself an ‘expert’ generalist and an agent of change who is energized by modernization, transformation, learning and problem-solving in creative ways. Mentoring, coaching and facilitating the development of others ‘fills her bucket’. After spending several years living and traveling abroad, including spending almost 2 years in Haiti post 2010 earthquake, she returned to Canada to rejoin the public service after almost 10 years, bringing with her new perspectives and competencies to serve Canadians.
Kelly Gillis	Deputy Minister	Infrastructure and Communities	Kelly Gillis was appointed Deputy Minister, Infrastructure and Communities in September 2017. Infrastructure Canada is the Government of Canada department that provides long-term, predictable support to help Canadians benefit from world-class, modern public infrastructure; makes investments, builds partnerships, develops policies, delivers programs, and fosters knowledge about public infrastructure in Canada; and helps address complex challenges that Canadians face every day, ranging from the rapid growth of our cities, to climate change, and environmental threats to our water and land. Prior to this appointment, Kelly served as Associate Deputy Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), the department that worked to develop Canada's Inclusive Innovation Agenda to help build an economy that promotes clean growth, high-quality jobs and increased prosperity. Previous to this, Kelly held a number of positions within the federal government, including, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications (SITT) Sector and Chief Financial Officer at Industry Canada. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Graduate Diploma in Public Accounting from McGill University and is also a qualified chartered accountant. Kelly is originally from Montréal. She and her husband have three children.
Philippe Thompson	Chief Finances, Results and Delivery Officer	Indigenous Services Canada	Since July 2019, Philippe Thompson has been the Chief Finances, Results and Delivery Officer (CFRDO) at Indigenous Services Canada (ISC). The CFRDO Sector is responsible for providing leadership and ensuring effective management of departmental Finance. The Sector is the departmental lead on integrated planning, results and delivery, parliamentary reporting and provides facility management, security and procurement services to the whole Department. It also manages the departmental Information Technology, Data Management and Information Management functions. The CFRDO sector allowed the Department to remain on sound footing operationally and financially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Thompson’s leadership ensured that the sector was flexible and agile in supporting the organization during this time of need. Prior to joining ISC, Philippe was the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Management Sector at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED).  He previously occupied different positions at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Canada Border Services Agency, Public Safety Canada, the Privy Council Office, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada and Public Works and Government Services. Mr. Thompson’s expertise is recognized nationally and internationally in the field of results-based management and he has extensive experience in leading major departmental projects and transformations. Philippe holds a Bachelor of Political Science and a Masters of Public Policy and Public Administration from Concordia University.
Tammy Branch	Assistant Commissioner of Appeals Branch	Canada Revenue Agency	Tammy Branch was named the Assistant Commissioner of the Appeals Branch on October 12, 2021. Tammy joined the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in August 2016 when she became the Director General of the Collections Directorate. She was then appointed as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Collections and Verification Branch (CVB) in November 2019. Prior to joining the CRA, Ms. Branch held the role of Director General of the Recourse Directorate at the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) from 2011 to 2016, where she lead a significant modernization of the Recourse Program, with an emphasis on improved client service. Previous to that, she held various positions with CBSA, such as Strategic Advisor to the President, Chief of Staff and Director, International Policy between 2007 and 2011. Recruited into the Government of Canada through the Management Trainee Program, Ms. Tammy Branch initially worked in the Department of National Defence where she held various positions in the areas of communications, policy, human resources and in the Deputy Minister's office. In 2005, she joined Public Safety Canada where she headed up the Cabinet Affairs group. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and a Masters of Business Administration from Queen's University. She also studied Political Science at the University of Toronto.
Catherine Massé	Director General	Canada Revenue Agency	Catherine Massé joined the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in January 2018 as the Director General, Relief, Redress and Branch Services Directorate in the Appeals Branch.  In this role, which she continues to exercise, she is responsible for the overall management of the Taxpayer Relief Program and the Canada Pension Plan/Employment Insurance Appeals and Litigation programs. She is also responsible for delivering a number of branch management and support services. Throughout her 30 year career, Catherine held a number of positions of increasing responsibility in various government departments.  She began at the Department of Justice in program evaluation and intergovernmental relations from 1991 to 1999 followed by a dozen years in the area of socio-economic policy research and evaluation at Human Resources and Social Development Canada.  She then took on a new challenge in the Community Safety and Partnerships Branch of Public Safety Canada establishing a horizontal policy function as part of the Assistant Deputy Minister’s office and then led a change management initiative in the Emergency Management and Programs Branch of that same department.  From 2014-2018, she served as the Director, Integrity Policy and Program Development at Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) where she was responsible for providing strategic analysis and advice on the program integrity function, including developing an integrity policy framework and managing reviews to identify and measure program fraud and other integrity risks in ESDC’s core benefit programs. Catherine holds a bachelor of Social Sciences (Political Science) from the University of Ottawa and a Masters of Arts (Social Anthropology) from the University of Toronto.
Caroline Leclerc	Assistant Deputy Minister, Partnerships for Development Innovation (KFM)	Global Affairs Canada	Caroline Leclerc is a graduate of the University of Ottawa’s École de Droit civil and was admitted to the Quebec Bar Association in 1994. She joined the federal government in 1995 and occupied several positions of increasing level and complexity before joining the Canadian International Development Agency in 2005, which formed part of Global Affairs as of 2013. Amongst others, she has been Director General, Strategic Planning, Head of Development Evaluation, and Director General for Food Security and Environment. In her most recent position she has been overseeing the implementation of the Government’s commitment to support developing countries’ efforts to adapt to, and mitigate the causes of climate change, and representing the Government internationally in a number of multilateral organisations, such as the Green Climate Fund. She took on the position of Assistant Deputy Minister of Partnerships for Development Innovation on September 5, 2017, and hopes that her experience in engaging partners, development programming, and innovative finance, will help her advance her team’s vision for strong and productive engagement of Canadians in international development.
Jean Cardinal	Director, Open Government | Directeur, Gouvernement ouvert	Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor du Canada	Jean Cardinal is currently the Director of Open Government at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Prior to joining the Public Service, Jean worked in the private sector for 15 years, in a variety of sectors, including marketing, sales & high tech. Jean joined the Public Service 13 years ago, starting at the National Capital Commission. In 2012, he then joined the Canada School of Public Service where he has held a variety of leadership positions in learning and development related to specialized fields of study including, but not limited to: Information management & technology, access to information & privacy, human resources, finance, security, etc. In 2021, he joined the Open Government team with the goal of continuing to champion Open Government and Data in the Canadian federal public service and beyond. He is the proud father of two wonderful young ladies, ages 13 and 10
Kristen Petruska	Director of the Strategic Analytics and Horizontal Integration in the Account Security Directorate	Canada Revenue Agency	Kristen Petruska joined the public service in 2006. With over 15 years of experience with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), she has worked in statistics, strategic policy, enterprise risk management, issues management, and program evaluation. She was appointed to the executive community in 2016 and she is currently providing leadership as a Director within the CRA’s Account Security Directorate, helping to ensure a consistent and enterprise-wide approach across business lines.
Virginie Mongeon	A/DG, Enterprise Change & Learning Academy Corporate Services Sector	Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada	Virginie aime construire avec énergie et intégrité. Sa passion pour les communications et l'apprentissage continu ont placé les gens au centre de tous ses projets. Sa carrière dans la fonction publique s'étend sur plus de 20 ans et couvre un large éventail de ministères et de mandats (Patrimoine canadien, Santé Canada, Environnement et Changement climatique Canada, Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada), plusieurs secrétariats (Jeux olympiques et paralympiques d'hiver de 2010 à Vancouver et Canada 150) et des projets transformateurs. Plus récemment, elle a modernisé l'apprentissage et le développement à IRCC, en y intégrant la gestion du changement pour une approche plus consciente du leadership du changement. Collaboratrice et curieuse de nature, Virginie recherche les occasions de créer un espace pour que les gens puissent co-concevoir des solutions futures pour aujourd'hui. Fière mère de trois jeunes adultes, Charlotte (20 ans et qui a récemment déménagé pour l'université !), Pénélope (18 ans et qui a obtenu sa première voiture) et Elliot (16 ans qui a hâte de terminer ses études secondaires), elle partage maintenant un bureau à domicile avec un conjoint nouvellement retraité.
Lily Spek	Recruitment Lead, Canada's Free Agents	Natural Resources Canada	Lily Spek has been a Free Agent for 5 years, and is currently the Recruitment Lead for Canada’s Free Agents as her 8th assignment. She has completed Free Agent assignments at the Heritage Canada, Federal Youth Network, Indigenous Services Canada, Canada’s Free Agents, Immigration Citizenship and Refugees Canada, and the Privy Council Office. She completed her Masters of Public Administration at Queen’s University, as well as a Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management at Carleton University. Lily helps facilitate weekly OneTeamGov virtual sessions on Mondays and Fridays; open to anyone interested in public sector reform, or looking for connection while we work from home.