contributors
LOUISE CHALUPIAK
Louise Chalupiak is a senior project manager and facilitator with more than 25 years of progressive
business experience. Her experience includes project and change management and
human resources management. She has written and delivered numerous levels of curriculum
for leadership, HR and project management training and is currently working as an independent
consultant with a focus on HR projects. In addition, she has published work in the
field of business leadership and continues to research current trends and best practises. Read
her article about how to implement human resources information system (HRIS) technology,
starting on page 16.
DONNA MARSHAL, M.A., C.PSYCH
Donna Marshall, M.A., C. Psych., is the CEO of BizLife Solutions and co-developer of
the Harassment Education Advisory Response Team (HEART™) program. She specializes
in consulting and training organizations on how to manage, prevent and address harassment
and bullying as well as how to promote psychological safety and mental health in the
workplace. Read her article, which she wrote with assistance from expert contributors Dr.
Stephanie Bot and Judy Hamilton, about how a toxic work environment can have adverse effects
on employee mental health, starting on page 27.
ELIOT BURDETT
Eliot Burdett is the co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting, a B2B sales recruiting
company launched in 2006. Prior to Peak, he spent more than 20 years building and leading
companies by recruiting and managing high performance sales teams. He co-founded
Ventrada Systems and GlobalX and served as vice president of sales for PointShot Wireless.
Burdett received his Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Carleton University and co-authored
Sales Recruiting 2.0, How to Find Top Performing Sales People, Fast. Read his
article about five mistakes commonly made when interviewing sales professionals and how
to fix them, starting on page 33.
LIANE DAVEY
Liane Davey is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of YOU FIRST:
Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done. She combines her expertise in
strategy with her deep insight into group dynamics to create powerful changes in top teams.
As vice president, Team Solutions at Lee Hecht Harrison Knightsbridge, she is sought out
by executives at some of North America’s leading financial services, consumer goods, high
tech and healthcare organizations. Davey works to rehabilitate dysfunctional and ineffective
teams, along with healthy teams that want to take their performance to the next level.
She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario, a Master
of Applied Science and a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the University
of Waterloo. Read her article about how passive-aggressive behaviour affects a workplace,
starting on page 37.
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