Our Compensation Consulting Team

Anand is currently a Partner and leads the National Compensation Consulting Practice at LifeWorks. Most recently, he was the Practice Leader for Compensation and a Senior Vice President at Accompass. Prior to that he was the Toronto Practice Leader for Executive Compensation and a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry Hay Group. He was also a Vice President with PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Advisory Practice.

Anand is a Partner at LifeWorks and is responsible for growing the Compensation Consulting Practice in Canada. Anand joined LifeWorks in 2018 and brought over 25 years of experience with him.

Anand Parsan has practised as an HR professional both locally and internationally, and offers a combination of strategic and technical skills based on his many years of consulting and industry experience. He is a trusted advisor to Board members and management and is an expert in the design and implementation of corporate governance and compensation programs that support organizational strategy and objectives, as well as stakeholders' interests.

Anand employs a business-forward approach to advising companies on creating executive incentive programs that support their strategy. He has advised Boards and executives at a number of leading public and private organizations working across multiple sectors, including financial services, insurance, mining, energy, chemical, consumer products, construction, manufacturing, retail, public sectors and private equity. His extensive knowledge in using performance metrics in incentive design helps organizations to strike the right balance between retention and performance.

• LifeWorks (2019-Present) — Senior Consultant, Retirement Solutions- Regulatory & International and Compensation   Consulting
• SOCAR (2009-2019) — Deputy Head of the Division for Legal Support of International projects

Fuad is a Senior Consultant at LifeWorks and is responsible for helping grow the Compensation Consulting Practice and Corporate Wellness services in Canada and in Europe. Fuad joined LifeWorks in 2019 and brought over 10 years of experience with him. Fuad is a target and detail-oriented professional with 12 years of experience in international cross-border M&A transactions, corporate strategy initiatives, negotiations, compliance, legal risk management, employee benefit arrangements and corporate governance.

Audia is currently an Associate Consultant at LifeWorks.  Prior to that, she worked in various roles within the pension division of the Financial Services Commission.

Audia leverages her experiences in managing projects, providing solutions to pension regulators and pension plans (risk assessment, developing, interpreting and recommending plan provisions or legislation, drafting governance material and other policies and procedures, conducting financial and stress test reviews), the wind up of pension plan processes and pension monitoring and supervision to provide a comprehensive analysis on assignments.

• LifeWorks (since 2021) – Senior Compensation Consultant
• Central 1 Credit Union, People Solutions (2018-2020) – Associate Consultant
• Central 1 Credit Union, People Solutions (2016-2018) – Senior Analyst
• First West Credit Union (2015-2016) – Total Rewards Analyst
• First West Credit Union (2014-2015) – Benefits Advisor
• Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast BC (2011-2014) – Human Resources Generalist

Reena is currently a Senior Compensation Consultant at LifeWorks and is well versed in all areas of total rewards and has experience in leading client focused projects as well as larger team initiatives including annually run National Compensation Surveys. Through her project management skill set, she has the ability to scope, delegate, effectively manage and deliver successful outcomes on time and with quality and care.

Situated out of Vancouver, Reena brings a decade worth of Human Resources experience covering board remuneration, executive and workforce compensation. She works with clients of various sizes and complexities and builds lasting relationships built on trust and integrity and geared towards uncovering the true business challenges and needs of her clients. Through consultative guidance and partnership, Reena is committed towards achieving holistic total reward outcomes.

She is passionate about compensation and continually stays on top of industry trends; her attention for detailed analysis lends itself in delivering key insights and presenting thoughtful and well-articulated communication and rewards messaging.

Nora is currently a Principal and leads the Calgary Compensation Consulting Practice at LifeWorks. Most recently, she was the Principal Consultant at HR Logix and collaborated with LifeWorks on various client engagements. Prior to that she was the Edmonton Practice Leader for Compensation & Rewards and a Senior Consultant at Korn Ferry Hay Group. She also served as subject matter expert and consulted on pension administration reporting and auditing process design during two PeopleSoft implementations for Alberta Health Services and Calgary Board of Education.

Nora is a trusted board and management advisor for various public and private sectors client organizations. She is a seasoned and results-driven HR practitioner with over 15 years of well-rounded senior experience in compensation, total rewards, and human resources operations. As a manager and consultant, Nora worked with various energy sector organizations and government bodies to implement value-added human resource programs leading to strategic organizational advantages and has experience dealing with all levels of an organization.

As Edmonton Practice Lead at Korn Ferry Hay Group, Nora led the successful delivery of various engagements focused on developing compensation strategies and framework, conducting diagnostic market research and custom surveys, developing incentive programs, process engineering, facilitation, and human resources consulting. She worked on numerous projects to draft pay strategy, benchmark competitive market compensation, and design structures ensuring internal equity, external competitiveness, and alignment with compensation philosophies.

After working several years in the telecommunications industry, Ashley returned to school to earn a Bachelor of Commerce degree, and began her career as a Human Resources professional. For the past six years Ashley has worked as a Compensation Analyst with the Wynford Group and transitioned to a Compensation Consultant role when the company was acquired by LifeWorks in 2020.

Ashley has played a key role in managing numerous projects for the Wynford Group / LifeWorks, including: conducting national compensation surveys and supporting research; managing major components of the National Canadian Salary Surveys which include over 1200 positions and over 600 participants; developing custom total rewards surveys/reviews for numerous clients; engaging participants and collecting salary data; job evaluation and classification; managing total rewards consulting projects for clients and developing competitive salary structures and incentive solutions for clients. She has managed several projects providing consultation on developing total rewards solutions to suit the needs of a variety of clients in the private and public sector, including union environments.

Avril is currently a Compensation Consultant at LifeWorks. Avril started her HR career as a Summer student in the Compensation Survey Data team at Towers Perrin in 2005, returned to be a Project Manager - Compensation Surveys (July 2007 to February 2011) and eventually joined the Total Rewards team as a Rewards Analyst (March 2011 to June 2013) supporting compensation and total rewards projects. She joined the Global Data Solutions team at Aon Canada as a Senior Analyst (July 2013 to October 2018) and worked on annual and custom compensation surveys and total rewards projects. She has gained Corporate HR experience by working for Canadian Tire as a Compensation Consultant (November 2018 to December 2019) and Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP as a Total rewards Specialist (December 2019 to August 2021).

Avril is currently a Compensation Consultant at LifeWorks and has knowledge of compensation surveys as well as areas of total rewards. She has experience conducting national compensation surveys as well as developing custom surveys. Over the years, she has worked on job evaluation projects and market pricing/benchmarking projects. Her work experience has provided her with strong knowledge of the compensation practice, broadbased roles and compensation survey results. In these roles she has learnt the importance of time management, data confidentiality and building customer relationships. She has enhanced her skills through effective communication and delivering quality product to both internal and external clients within the specified timelines.

Karanveer is currently an Associate Consultant at LifeWorks. Karanveer started his career as a Co-op Intern at Suncor Energy in 2017 working for the Fort Hills project providing market research and data analysis support to the Fort Hills team. Shortly after this in May 2018 Karanveer continued his Co-op Internship at a boutique compensation consulting firm in Calgary, Alberta called Lane Caputo Compensation, during which time he worked as a summer student developing a research project focused on the Grant Date Fair Value of equity incentives. After this internship Karanveer moved into a full time Executive Compensation Analyst role from September 2018 to May 2021, during which time he worked on the analysis of compensation for a broad range of organizations.

Karanveer has experience dealing with executive compensation, broad based compensation as well as governance concerns. Much of Karanveers time at Lane Caputo was spent dealing with Oil & Gas as well as Mining companies, however he also worked with a broader range of industries as well such as real estate, construction and cannabis to name a few. Karanveer also spent time working on a Equity Research paper which looked at valuing the grant date fair value of equity incentives recieved by executives in Canada over time, against their actual payout.

Some of Karanveer's day to day activities will include analyzing, validating and cleansing compensation data submitted by survey participants. Conducting analysis for numerous total rewards custom projects across various industry sectors, including developing competitive salary structures and incentive solutions. Establishing new total rewards structures by performing job evaluations & recommending salary range adjustments by benchmarking current salaries to market data. Researching and reporting on industry trends, support client needs and execute new system wide surveys on pay practices and salary budget planning. Analysis of proxy data.

Nick has been an analyst in LifeWorks's Compensation Consulting department since May 2020 subsequent to the acquisition of the Wynford Group. Nick has assisted with a number of compensation projects with integrity that involved conducting analytic market research and compensation strategies for custom surveys as well as for various sectors including the public and entertainment sectors.

Nick is an experienced analyst with a history of working with clients and assisting in compensation and job evaluation programs. Analytically driven stemming from his background in finance, he seeks out and helps implement strategies with projects to develop necessary analysis, while establishing meaningful and lasting relationships with clients.

• PCI Perrault Consulting Inc., Senior Consultant (2010-2020)
• Laurentian Bank, Assistant Vice President – Global Compensation (2004-2010)
• SNC-Lavalin, Compensation Director (2002-2003)
• Bombardier, Senior Consultant, Compensation (2000-2002)
• CAE, Compensation Consultant and Talent acquisition (1997-2000)

Guylaine has worked in compensation for over 25 years. Her experience gives her a broad knowledge of compensation challenges from the perspective of both manager and consultant. In her positions with different organizations, she has managed teams of expert professionals and led many global compensation initiatives (short- and long-term incentive plans for top management, bonus structures, retirement, benefits, disability management, etc.).
As a consultant, she helps organizations deal with the challenges of attracting, retaining and motivating their employees. Her areas of expertise are as follows:

• Pay Equity
• Compensation Policy
• Development of evaluation and job evaluation tools, market positioning surveys, pay structures, short- and long-term bonus programs, etc.
• Executive compensation
• Etc.

Guylaine’s background gives her the skills to address the needs of every level of the organization, in both union and non-union environments.

• PCI Perrault Consulting Inc., Senior analyst, Compensation (2019-2021)
• Morneau Shepell, Senior Consultant, DB Pension Plan (2012-2019)

Alexandra is involved in compensation mandates in Quebec. Her role is to understand the issues and challenges faced by compensation managers and to design compensation programs and tools that align with the organization's business objectives.

Alexandra has 10 years of consulting experience. She first acquired experience in defined benefit pension plans and then moved into compensation consulting. Her areas of expertise include: DB pension plan, the design of job evaluation tools, the elaboration of compensation policies and structures, the development of short- and long-term incentive plans and the elaboration of recommendations to executives and boards of directors.

• LifeWorks (2021- to present) — Analyst, Compensation Consulting
• CIRANO (2020-2021) — Research Professional

Marius is a graduate of the master's degree in Applied Economics from HEC Montreal. His thesis work looked into the impact of on-the-job training on the remuneration of Canadian workers.

He has experience with CIRANO centered on several projects in labor economy, including mandates where he evaluated the skills that were the most sought after by Canadian employers. He joined LifeWorks in 2021 as an Analyst, Compensation Consulting, where he applies his expertise in economics for the benefit of the compensation team. His insights to the external environment and ability to combine these impacts to workforce compensation, allows him to bring a well-round approach data analytics, ensuring we design the optimum total reward solutions for our clients

• HomeSpritz(2020) - Full Stack Developer
• Skyplan(2019-2020) - Research Associate
• LG CNS(2013-2018) - System Engineer

Stephan began his career as a system engineer. For almost six years, Stephan developed applications, dealt with issues on systems, and designed the architecture of IT systems. Furthermore, he had worked as a Full-Stack developer in startups and R&D company using the latest technologies. As a result of his background and knowledge, Stephan has been focusing on improving security and user experience, as well as improving system performance on both the front-end and back-end sides.

Jae joined LifeWorks as Systems Coordinator in May 2020. Jae worked as Systems Analysts/Software Developer at the Wynford Group until the acquisition. The experience acquired from his background in various fields enabled him to coordinate between business operations and IT systems.

Jae is a Senior Analyst at LifeWorks and responsible for the IT systems for Compensation Consulting team. He maintains all aspects of the IT systems such as database/server administration and web development. Jae applies any changes to the systems when there is any change on the compensation analysis process, and keeps excellent communications to ensure smooth business flow.

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Deirdre is currenty a Principal Consultant based in the Toronto office. Most recently she was a Principal Consultant at Korn Ferry (Hay Group).

Deirdre joined LifeWorks in 2021, bringing 15 years of experience in compensation consulting partnering with management as well as providing advisory services to Boards.

Her expertise in reward strategy and integrative practices in compensation design is well known. She is a trainer for the Human Resources Professional Association (Ontario) and a frequent speaker at conferences and events (HRPA chapter events & national conference, World at Work).

Her specialties include job analysis, job evaluation, organizational strategy & design, and developing sustainable compensation systems considering solutions which are integrated and consider employee engagement, talent strategy and broader organizational strategy. She is well versed in pay equity legislation and supports organizations to develop equitable practices to meet, or exceed, compliance obligations. Her extensive knowledge in this area also is leveraged in broader scope gender pay and diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives.

• LifeWorks, formerly Morneau Shepell (2021 - Present) — Senior Consultant, Toronto, Compensation Consulting
• Korn Ferry / Hay Group (1997 – 2021) — Consultant, Digital Services

John recently joined LifeWorks as a Senior Consultant in the Compensation Consulting department. He has over 20 years experience conducting compensation and benefits surveys. He has focused on building compensation and benefits databases, and fulfilling clients' needs for market data. This includes assessing the clients’ market competitiveness for both cash and benefits as well as generating salary range recommendations.

John was a Project Manager for several annual compensation surveys in the financial services sector. These surveys covered executive, nonexecutive and risk management jobs. Responsibilities included data collection, data auditing, data analysis and report production.

John is also a benefits specialist. In his prior role he was responsible for the accuracy of all benefits and pension data published by the Surveys department.