career paths
HR CAREER PATHS:
Jenn Reid,
MLIS, PMP, CTDP
CHANGE MANAGEMENT,
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
By Kristy Rydz
Jenn Reid’s career has been full of
well-timed coincidences.
“It’s been opportunity meets preparation,”
she said. “And being ready.”
The first opportunity for the now senior
learning consultant, Change Management,
Project Management and Technology with
BMO Financial Group came while sitting
in an 18th century literature class in the
last year of her honours bachelor degree at
Queen’s University. Reid was beginning to
question what she would do with an education
in English and classical history, when a
librarian from the special collections library
came to show off some first-edition texts.
Listening to her speak, Reid was hooked.
She approached the woman after class
to learn more about her job and by later
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that year, she was pursuing her Masters of
Library and Information Studies at
Dalhousie University.
Shortly after graduating in 2006, while
working as the training and reference
librarian at a law firm in Toronto, she found
herself falling in love with training students
and new associates how to do legal research
and access information.
Following her passion, she pursued a certificate
in adult education and spent five years
honing her organizational and change
management abilities at HORN Training
and Consulting, a company that specializes
in solutions for corporate performance.
Another serendipitous moment popped
up while Reid was talking to a friend she
met through The Institute for Performance
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