CPHR BC & Yukon

Paul is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who specializes in workplace mental health for leadership, management, people & culture professionals, and employees. Prior to clinical counselling, he worked in executive leadership positions for over 20 years, as both a founder and CEO for a private start up and as a Vice President for a publicly traded company with global revenues of $7B and over 11,000 employees. Paul holds a Master of Counselling, Counselling Psychology from City University of Seattle (United States).

Tanya Ponnan (she/her) is a CPHR professional with over 20 years of HR experience, coupled with NGO international development, and post-secondary educational work locally and internationally. As a coach, mentor, change management, intercultural development inventory assessor, and emotional intelligence practitioner, Tanya utilizes her HR experience to assist organizations, educational institutions, and civic communities to implement diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) strategies towards engaging our ever-growing workplaces. Tanya holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Arts, Global Leadership from Royal Roads University with her research focused on inclusion programs. Her research was shared at the International Leadership Association’s virtual DEI summit in 2021. She is an active board member with the Canadian Forces Liaison Council (CFLC), BC Division, Justice Institute of BC (JIBC) Foundation and LaSalle College Vancouver. In her free time, she has taken up pottery by creating her own plates and bowls.