Dr. Terri-Lynn Brennan is the founder and CEO of Inclusive Voices, Inc. She is of Onkwehonwe and British descent and her family originates from Six Nations of the Grand River and Brantford, Ontario. Terri is currently a much sought after inter-cultural planner and community interlocutor across Canada with a foundation in sociology, education, archaeology, public policy and government relations. Her professional and personal journey of the last 30 years has been one focused in social justice and self-determinization for racialized, oppressed communities and individuals in the South Pacific, the UK, Europe, Egypt, Nepal, and across North America. Read more

Jenn Deon is an artist, entrepreneur, feminist and activist. She has worked as an independent professional theatre practitioner for over 20 years and also operates as an accredited business communicator (ABC) with her company Jenn Deon Consulting Inc. She is a founder and current producing artistic director of the PerSIStence Theatre Company, a PACT affiliate member that uses professional theatre to respond to the persistent and universal need for promoting, understanding and embracing the core beliefs of feminism. Previously Jenn was the artistic director the Shakespeare By The Sea Festival – St. John’s from 1995-2015. She is committed to the expansion of respectful workspace practices in all environments and is very pleased to be a trainer for CHRC’s workshops on Maintaining Respectful Workplaces. Learn more at jenndeon.ca.

As an international public speaker and consultant, Farah Fancy shifts mindsets and strips away bias to increase resilience, inclusion, and justice. Farah’s holistic approach fuses the arts, therapeutic techniques, and ethnography for leaders to reduce harm while improving self-worth, productivity and purpose with relevance and harmony. She commits to building a diverse community who are proud to be fearless and flawsome without limiting beliefs, self-doubt, or shame. For 25 years, she has been using creativity to reveal and resolve barriers to equity; fostering economic, professional, and personal development, while improving belonging and sparking innovation. Her successes include facilitating programs for over 100,000 people, producing over 30 performances, implementing 6 community projects for social change, co-founding the Dance Movement Therapy Association in Canada and Le Groupe Herencias. Farah promotes a focus on identity, respect, and empathy to de-colonize behaviours so we can dare to be audaciously visible and aligned beings.

Dr. Grégoire Gagnon is a manager, pedagogue and musician fostering culture and promoting arts from the stage to the classroom to the boardroom. Aside from being a lifelong academic and a real-world problem solver, Grégoire is (amongst other things) currently the Executive Director of the Cultural Human Resources Council, the President of the Ottawa Guitar Society and in all of his roles, he strives to make others thrive.  

Amanda Hancox is a graduate of the Arts Educational School in England. She worked extensively across Canada as a dancer and an actress in theatre, film and television for 30 years. From 2006 – 2019, Amanda was the Executive Director of the Dancer Transition Resource Centre (DTRC), a national, not-for-profit arts service organization with a mandate to help dancers make necessary transitions into, within and from professional performance careers. Throughout her tenure at the DTRC, she contributed her expertise to a number of major international and national conferences and was a member of the Board of the International Organization for the Transition of Professional Dancers (IOTPD). As well as her work as a facilitator for the CHRC’s Maintaining Respectful Workplaces workshops, Amanda acts as a career transition consultant within and outside the arts community. She is Chair of the Dance Committee of the Toronto Arts Council, Secretary of the Board of WorkInCulture, and an Advisory Group member of Generator’s TransformDance project.

As the Human Resources & Finance Specialist with the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT), Tabitha Keast provides consultation and support to PACT members on HR issues, including:

• Employer compliance and employment standards in relation to Canadian theatre
• Training in HR policies, practices and administrative systems/processes
• Direction on the implementation and adherence to the Occupational Health & Safety Act
• Best practices in performance management and employee retention
• Workplace complaints and investigations

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Lise Labine a eu une carrière de 35 ans dans des postes de direction en ressources humaines, notamment au sein de sociétés de la Couronne au niveau fédéral. Au départ, de 1980 à 2000, Lise a occupé des postes de gestion en ressources humaines auprès de la Société Radio-Canada, suivi en l’an 2000, par le rôle de Direction des ressources humaines avec le Conseil des arts du Canada et en 2004 le rôle de Direction des ressources humaines avec le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada. Par la suite, elle a occupé des postes de direction dans le secteur post-secondaire en Ontario notamment avec l’université Carleton et le Collège Boréal.
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Finissante au Département de théâtre de l’Université d’Ottawa en 1999, Geneviève Pineault œuvre dans le milieu théâtral depuis bientôt vingt-cinq ans. Son cheminement l’a amenée à travailler principalement en régie et en mise en scène avec différentes compagnies théâtrales et télévisuelles en Ontario. Elle a assuré la direction artistique et générale du Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario (TNO) à Sudbury de 2004 à 2017. Sous sa direction, le TNO a reçu le prestigieux Prix de la première ministre de l’Ontario pour l’excellence artistique 2014, accompagné d’une bourse de cinquante mille dollars. Elle dirige l’Association des théâtres francophones du Canada (ATFC) de 2017 à 2020 à titre de directrice générale et gère en même temps la Fondation pour l’avancement du théâtre francophone au Canada, branche philanthropique de l’ATFC. Plus récemment, elle signait la mise en scène du spectacle Les 39 Marches de Patrick Barlow, dans une traduction et adaptation de Josée Labossière, au Théâtre de l’Île de Gatineau pour lequel elle s’est vue décerné le Prix Rideau Awards 2019 de la mise en scène de l’année. Depuis juillet 2020, elle est à la barre du Théâtre de la Vieille 17 d’Ottawa à titre de directrice artistique et codirectrice générale.

Docteur en anthropologie, directeur général de Diversité artistique Montréal (DAM), professeur à l’université pendant 10 ans, consultant et formateur, chargé de cours à l’UQAM et à l’université de Sherbrooke, auteur de nombreux articles scientifiques et ouvrages, Jérôme Pruneau met ses compétences au service des artistes dits de la diversité en les accompagnant dans le (re)développement de leur carrière professionnelle au Québec. Pour en savoir davantage

Sylvie Rochette - Le milieu culturel et la démarche artistique sont depuis toujours au centre de ses intérêts et activités professionnelles en tant qu’artiste en arts visuels, chargée de projet, consultante et formatrice en développement de carrière artistique auprès d’individus et organismes.  Ces différents rôles la dispose à être très sensible aux préoccupations de l’artiste et travailleur culturel des différentes disciplines et c’est pourquoi, elle a acceptée de se joindre à l’équipe des formateurs francophones du CRHSC pour dispenser les ateliers sur le Maintien du respect en milieu de travail.

Charles C. Smith is a poet, playwright and essayist who has written and edited fourteen books. He studied poetry and drama with William Packard at New York University and Herbert Berghof Studios, drama at the Frank Silvera’s Writers’ Workshop in Harlem. He won second prize for his play Last Days for the Desperate from Black Theatre Canada, edited three collections of poetry (including the works of Dionne Brand, Marlene Nourbese Phillips, Claire Harris, Cyril Dabydeen, Lillian Allen, George Elliot Clarke), published four books of poetry and his poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Poetry Canada Review, the Quille and Quire, Descant, Dandelion, Fiddlehead and others. Charles was the founder of the Black Perspectives Cultural Program in Regent Park and has received writing grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. Read more

Victoria Steele is a bilingual arts and non-profit management consultant who has 35 years’ experience managing Canadian arts organizations in presenting, producing, community engagement and advocacy. She has acted at both the local and national levels. Ms. Steele works collaboratively with clients, teams, artists and stakeholders to research and develop strategies and to realize innovative projects. She is passionate about the power of the arts to connect Canadians and has worked with artists from independent, indigenous, culturally diverse and francophone communities. Ms. Steele teaches part-time in the Master’s in Arts Leadership program at Queen’s University and in the Theatre Department at the University of Ottawa. She is an experienced facilitator and workshop leader, a member of Arts Consultants Canada and the Canadian Association of Management Consultants. Read more

Stephanie Strugar is Manitoba’s Trainer for Cultural Human Resources Council's, Maintaining Respectful Arts Workplaces.

She is the owner of Difinity Dance Studio & Productions (www.ddsp.ca), a mobile cross cultural dance and fitness education company that provides workshops, summer camps and classes across MB in schools,daycares, and community recreation organizations. She also provides online classes of their Trademarked dance programs through their YouTube channel. Currently she offers online certifications to Canadian dance educators to facilitate her dance programs virtually. Read more