Alanna Deis serves as a Partner of the GrowthPoint Group, bringing to clients her people-centric business acumen ensuring maximum productivity from any business’s greatest asset: its people.
- Vice President of Canada’s largest industrial packaging company with responsibilities including:
- Winner of Maclean’s Top 100 Employers in Canada
- Development and execution of company strategy
- Aligning all Human Resources practices with company strategy
- Working with unionized and non-unionized employee groups in collective bargaining or employee focus groups to ensure employees’ voices are heard
- Ensuring that the people and culture elements are a focus before, during and after company acquisitions
- Director, People at WestJet Airlines:
- Winner, two years in a row, for the 50 Best Managed Companies in Canada
- Building infrastructure in all people practices including compensation plans, benefits plans, the HRIS system, recruiting practices and performance management processes
- Implementing of a Recruitment Module that saw 1000 resumes received weekly
- Overall responsibility for hiring 100 people monthly
- Responsible for implementing a vacation bidding system in which 85% of employees bid for their vacation
- Launching the first WestJet Employee Listening Survey
- Working with a non-unionized employee association to ensure that all Human Resource changes received input from the association, were understood and were communicated