Monica Beauregard - President mbeauregard@bridgepoint

Monica Beauregard - President
mbeauregard@bridgepoint.ca ext. 25

Monica Beauregard advises clients in a variety of HR functional areas, including HR/Payroll systems project management, functional and structural HR improvement initiatives, performance management, compensation and benefits, and recruitment. She has spent the last eight years consulting with Bridgepoint.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Ms. Beauregard held human resources management positions for some of Canada’s leading organizations including Rogers AT& T, Nestles, and Bausch & Lomb Canada. Her experience spans several industries including legal, hi-tech, retail, foodservice, financial, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical. In addition to her Honours Degree in Business and her Canadian Human Resource Professional (CHRP) designation, she has over 15 years’ generalist human resource experience.

As a human resources management consultant, Ms. Beauregard has been involved in working closely with management, in both small and large companies, to ensure HR programs provide added value to the business. She has carried out a range of HR initiatives for clients, including conducting HR structural reviews, HR System reviews and HR audits for a number of companies.

Ms. Beauregard is the co-author of “Hiring, Managing and Keeping the Best: The Complete Canadian Guide for Employers”, available online at www.bridgepoint.ca (previously published by McGraw Hill Ryerson, 2000)


Marybeth Ashbourne - Associate Consultant
mashbourne@bridgepoint.ca ext. 51

Marybeth Ashbourne has more than 20 years of experience as a Human Resources professional in a variety of industries, including transportation, telecommunications, food production, and fashion retail. Marybeth has worked with leading organizations including Rogers AT& T, Purolator Courier, and Holt Renfrew. Her most recent corporate position was Vice President of Human Resources at Holt Renfrew.

Marybeth has had experience in a broad spectrum of Human Resources functions, ranging from employee relations, performance management and organizational development to compensation and benefits. She has been accountable for program development, implementation and evaluation, always with the purpose of linking people resources to organizational performance.

Marybeth holds an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto, is a member of the Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario and holds the designation of Canadian Human Resources Professional (CHRP). She is bilingual in English and French.

 

Yvonne Mitchell – Associate Consultant

ymitchell@bridgepoint.ca  ext. 21

 

Yvonne Mitchell is an HR and Payroll Consultant with Bridgepoint.  She advises clients in a variety of Payroll functional areas, including HR/Payroll systems project management, functional and structural Payroll improvement initiatives, compensation and benefits.

 

Prior to consulting with Bridgepoint, Ms. Mitchell held payroll and human resource management positions for some of Canada’s leading organizations including Dundee Securities Corporation and Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada.  Her experience spans several industries which include legal and financial services.  In addition to her CHRP, CEBS , CPM and CCP certifications, she has over 10 years’ of payroll experience and 13 years’ of generalist human resource experience.

 

As a Consultant, Ms. Mitchell has been involved in working closely with management and employees, in both small and large companies, to ensure Payroll processes are streamlined, documented  and compliant.  Ms. Mitchell has had extensive experience with payroll implementations, transitions and harmonization of payroll processes and reporting.  Ms. Mitchell has also been an active participant in benefit harmonization projects and HRIS implementations.    

Yvonne also volunteers with the Canadian Payroll Association as a Subject Matter Expert.


Lauren Bernardi- Associate Consultant and Trainer

Lauren is a proactive employment lawyer. For more than 13 years, Lauren has been providing strategic advice and representation in the increasingly complex area of human resource law. Lauren has a degree in psychology and received her law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Lauren has facilitated a number of Respect in the Workplace sessions to law firms in Toronto. Described as an “exceptional speaker who explains the law in terms that everyone can understand”, Lauren has been a conference presenter to a wide variety of groups.

A prolific writer, Lauren is the author of a leading book on workplace policies, “Powerful Employment Policies” and authored the simple to use hiring guide, “Recruitment Workbook & Disk” . Lauren has also written numerous articles on human resource law for various business publications, including acting as the legal columnist for Canadian Manager magazine for eight years, and writing for the Canadian HR Reporter and Canadian Employment Law Today.


Susan MacKenzie - Associate Trainer

Susan provides customized performance and training solutions. Her 20 plus years of work experience at a variety of levels from front line to senior management provides a wealth of real-world examples and scenarios for participants. Susan had provided a variety of training sessions in a number of areas with an emphasis in Communication Skills. Susan holds an Adult Education Certificate, from St. Francis Xavier University.