THE TEAM
Christine Lalonde | Principal HR Strategist
Christine is passionate about transforming conversations into safe, collaborative spaces so that people can nurture connections, openly communicate, and ignite exploration and curiosity. She saw first-hand when her parents moved to Canada from Vietnam the difference a supportive community makes in building the success of individuals. Christine is an experienced HR professional with over ten years of experience in operations, culture development and strategic recruitment, having built HR departments and process from the ground up for multiple small to medium businesses.
She has deep passion, dedication, and knowledge in public and private sectors for workforce planning and strategic recruitment, change management, employee and manager coaching, and retention. What Christine has seen time and again, is that when leaders build thriving work cultures, where employees care about each other and the company, then difficult business challenges are no longer tackled alone but as a collaborative team effort. It is Christine’s greatest joy when she can help enable independence in a way that supports relationships not cripples them.
Christine has extensive experience in championing the strategic HR component of acquisitions, including leading pre-acquisition due diligence, integration, and post-acquisition process improvement, and successfully merging a local 130-person team with an international company generating more than $340 million in annual revenue.
Described as having a great laugh and a loud walk, with an infectious attitude to match, Christine is an avid foodie, enjoys travelling the world to eat at the best restaurants, and is always in search of sunshine and patios to drink on.
Brittany Bryce | HR Operations Lead
Brittany believes in the importance of teams, on the same page, working together to make a difference. With the right HR tools and structures in place, companies can empower their teams and themselves to reach beyond professional goals, to each team member achieving their highest human potential. Brittany’s extensive years of experience in the non-profit, private, and public sectors has provided her with a unique skill set, including project management, process improvement, HR operational support, full-cycle recruitment, employee onboarding and team building activities.
Brittany combines her Bachelor of Commerce from the Alberta School of Business, with good-old-fashioned hard work, organization, and empathy to help her clients find joy through purpose, trust in their teams, and create a more streamlined way of working.
With a meticulous and thorough approach, Brittany’s project management experience includes building an HR foundation from scratch for multiple clients in different industries. Her goal is to build a system that is simple, intuitive, and value-added to the unique daily operations of businesses she supports. She has organically grown thriving teams from 5 to 65 people in the span of a year.
In her spare time, Brittany hordes stationary, seeks her zen with yoga, enriches her experience with travel, pets any cat that she meets, listens to more music than is reasonable, and plans highly-detailed fundraisers and events for weddings, corporates, and non-profits.