As HRA’s Managing Partner, Kathryn is by necessity skilled in multi-tasking, balancing the business management for HRA with her own thriving professional practice. In May 2011, Kathryn assumed the position of President of the Greater Charlottetown and Area Chamber of Commerce. She is also a founding member of the Atlantic Canada Chapter of the Women President’s Organization, an international organization for women entrepreneurs.
Since 1998, Kathryn has been helping her clients throughout Atlantic Canada build strong internal capacity for growth and success. While Kathryn provides advice and guidance to organizations on people management practices, her passion is demystifying performance management for all levels of leadership and management. Rather than focus on the annual performance appraisal, Kathryn works with managers to develop the confidence and competence to have ongoing intentional discussions sharing expectations and providing feedback on work process, work outcomes and behaviour at work. Kathryn custom develops and facilitates management training sessions across Canada; the recurring feedback from participants is that the sessions are practical, enjoyable and they want more! A particular favourite with clients is a multi-session learning series on performance management addressing key issues such as conflict and emotion at work, mastering difficult discussions, and working through performance issues, to name a few.
Before joining HRA, Kathryn held executive positions with two large organizations in central Ontario with responsibility for all human resource management and labour relations functions. Kathryn launched her career with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Acadia University, a Masters in Industrial Relations from Queen’s University and has more recently attained a Certificate in Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University.
Kathryn loves to read to learn; her recent recommendations are:
- Power of 2, How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships at Work and in Life by Rodd Wagner and Gale Muler
- Crucial Conversations, Tools for talking when stakes are high by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
Tel: 902-626-2509
email: kcoll@hra.ca