Our Outplacement Team

Our team comprises ten internal outplacement / career transition consultants with collective expertise in both the private and public sector.

All resources are very familiar with the employment market and the economic sectors experiencing growth versus decline.

Charles Grossner, President

In the outplacement world, Charles has coached many clients helping them obtain their next job or indeed helping them reposition themselves in a career change. Charles is particularly helpful to those seeking a career change whether driven by market conditions or a change in personal interests. As a Career Consultant, Charles finds deep satisfaction in helping people through a difficult transition; otherwise, he enjoys helping people get on and stay on track, ensuring that their next job is the right job.

Charles is a co-author of “Get Back to Work! A No-Nonsense Guide For Finding Your Next Job Fast”, a best-seller on the subject of employment and job search. He has brought a significant “marketing” tonality and pragmatic understanding of the human communications process to the subject of job search.

People understand when working with Charles that the resume is just the first visible step in the job search or the career transition process. Success is critically dependent upon research and strategy, and, “marketing” oneself as a “brand” targeting organizations and opportunities where there is a strong compatibility, that is, where there is likely to be a good “fit” between organizational and personal needs.

Academically, Charles holds a BA in Economics from Sir George Williams University, MA in Economics from Queen’s University and MBA from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University). Although Charles has had a “business” focused career, he has taught college/university level Economics, Business Administration, Advertising and Marketing at various times during his career always with positive ratings from his students.

Richard Steel, Senior Consultant

Richard Steel, BA, MBA, CHRP - Outplacement Program Coordinator. Richard has global experience in career counselling and outplacement. Richard also has extensive experience working with individuals with a desire to create their own businesses.

Carolyn Wiseman, Senior Vice President & Executive Consultant

Carolyn has many years of hands-on business management experience and has led and built business teams in major corporations. She is knowledgeable in Marketing, Communications, Sales and Business Development.  She has a sincere desire to not just find people jobs - but lasting and solid career opportunities.  A professional copywriter and communicator, well equipped to create compelling and strategically sound resumes. A Degree in Communications and Mass Media.

Violet Carandang, Senior Consultant

Builds and nurtures relationships from the word “go”. She focuses strongly on building personal strategies for reemployment. She has extensive experience dealing with different generations of executives….boomers to nexters. She has international HR professional experience in both local and multinational environments, and, she possesses a business degree with a major in HR.

Rita Eriksson, Senior Consultant

Rita has experience in team building, mentoring and coaching. She is a professional, highly principled, who does whatever it takes to assist individuals towards a successful career transition. She has experience working with all levels of staff from administration to senior executives.

Andrew Barker, Senior Consultant

Andrew has more than 15 years of business experience at all levels, is client focused and exceptional in the development of relationships with outplaced employees. He is experience in large-scale organizational change including organizations in the evaluation of current outplacement procedures and practices and setting future direction. Andrew is double degreed, holding a Bachelor of Arts degree (Honours) in Psychology and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from York University in Toronto.

Leon Wilson, Senior Consultant

In outplacement, Leon focuses on providing the displaced worker with what they really need; one-on-one time with a Career Transition Consultant. Leon works with the candidate on his/her most important needs. With some candidates the work is on communication skills, networking, and interview practice; with others he can focus more on developing professional resumes to produce high impact results, business plans and positioning statements.  With every candidate,Leon offers personal and professional support to maintain momentum, enthusiasm and results!

Cecilia Kong, Senior Consultant

Cecilia is a Senior Consultant with a diversified placement portfolio in heavy industry, accounting, turbo-machinery, and information technology.  Assessing the attitudinal and skills-based experience candidates bring, Cecilia identifies strengths, weaknesses, and value-added traits through interviewing and reference reports that portray a well-rounded perspective on a candidate’s abilities.

Aiming to unite candidates and employers for a best-fit scenario, Cecilia learns a client’s organizational culture and a candidate’s career goals, placing those who can integrate quickly or “hit the ground running” as smoothly as possible.

Stephen M. Marshall, Business Development Manager

Stephen is a business development professional whom our consultants can access when working with an outplacement client on developing a marketing campaign. Stephen has a vast knowledge of information sources, research methodologies and targeting techniques that can help clients reach out to individuals key to executing a successful campaign.