THE HR ICU - Key Persons


Christine Nielsen

Job Titles:
  • Master Coach, Trusted Mentor, Elite Speaker, Leader
With over two decades of transformation experience and driving a variety of businesses forward, Christine Nielsen is a master coach and expert at helping organizations and individuals achieve greater level of performance and, more importantly, success. Christine's experience spans a variety of senior executive positions. She has leveraged her own professional history to serve as a consultant to other companies where she has focused on organizational transformation and performance management. Spanning a vast range of industries including Fashion, Beauty & Lifestyle, to Food & Beverage, Forestry, Mining, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Oil & Gas, Engineering, and Financial Services. The impact Christine has been able to make is extensive. By partnering, coaching and working closely with senior leaders, Christine can transform organizations and deliver higher level of performance and affect positive and measurable change. Christine's expertise also extends to cultural change and transformation. By creating a chain of influential leaders and mid-level managers, Christine is able to deliver greater levels of performance. The improvement in outcomes is a result of effectively altering employee behaviours to create cultural cohesion that leads to the delivery of significant, and more importantly, sustainable business results.

Josée Larocque-Patton

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Author, Trainer, Speaker, HR Consultant
Josée is a Human Resources Expert specializing in HR emergencies, problem solving, crisis management and overall performance management. She began her HR career on the waters more than 15 years ago with Celebrity Cruise Lines, Disney Cruise Lines and eventually landing in the Bahamas. In each of these roles, Josée has gained valuable knowledge and experience working with over 60 different nationalities. Once back in Ontario, Josée began working for the largest pharmaceutical company in Canada for over a decade. Josée is the everyday "go-to" person for all HR matters. Her clients have included more than 450 leaders throughout Ontario, Québec and the Atlantic provinces. She is a company culture facilitator, leadership trainer, project leader and community investment delegate. A few years ago she launched her own HR consulting firm to help small and medium sized businesses as their trusted HR advisor. Assisting with anything from M&A's, hiring packages, policies and procedures, employee handbooks, health & safety, AODA, employee engagement, performance management and more.

Sacha Horvath

Job Titles:
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Trainer, Speaker
  • Member of the Canadian
Sacha's unique approach includes a map for navigating the waters of self-discovery. She assists clients in discovering the root cause of their pain, stress and, limitations so that they can break free and enhance the quality of their lives. Her methodology has been proven successful with her clients, resulting in deep and permanent transformation to live a happier, more fulfilling and meaningful life. Through her research and her own self-transformation, Sacha discovered the road to happiness, as she needed to understand the walls of suffering first. Her master's thesis subsequently addressed the meaning of suffering in finding happiness. Sacha is a member of the Canadian counselling and psychotherapy association possessing the Canadian certified counsellor (ccc) designation as well as a member of the professional alliance of naturopaths and naturotherapists of Quebec. Sacha's success lies within her deep understanding of data-backed and proven therapeutic technology. This includes: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Mindfulness, Hypnosis, Solution-Focused-Therapy and Alternative Healing Modalities. She has also studied the work of Dr Bruce Lipton, Dr Joe Dispenza, Dr Sonia Choquette, Dr Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, Dr Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Dr Carolyn Myss.