Kevin O'Farrell, CHRP

Fluently bilingual (English-French), Human Resources and business executive with broad experience in managing large multi-disciplinary teams of knowledge professionals in a variety of research, consulting, industrial and corporate environments, with recognized expertise in Organization Effectiveness, Employee Engagement, Leadership Development and Change Management.

Has worked across a variety of industries and business sectors including manufacturing, high tech, retail, public and para-public, financial, transportation, with particular emphasis on the pharmaceutical and business-to-business organizations.

Experience

Founder and Managing Partner

CreKof, a consultancy
2014 – Present
Provide management consulting services related to organizational Culture, Restructuring and Effectiveness with emphasis on Leadership, Teams and Employee Engagement. Strategic Planning Facilitation with Leadership Teams.

Vice President, People and Organization

Hewitt Équipement Ltée.
3 years
Leadership and Succession Development, Organizational Development, Talent Management, Total Rewards, Employee Communications, Health & Safety, HR Business Partnerships, Technical Training and Apprenticeship programs.

Vice President, Business Effectiveness

Pfizer
4 years
Provided Shared Services to all Business Units through SLA's in Strategic Planning, Business Intelligence, Salesforce Training, Marketing Services, Business Technology, Linguistic services.

Director, Organization Effectiveness & Talent Management

Pfizer

 4 years
Led major transformations related to Strategic alignment, Customer centricity, Operational effectiveness, Team mobilization, Colleague engagement

National Partner, Human Capital Practice Leader

Mercer
8 years

Practice Leader, Senior Consultant

The Wyatt Company (now Towers Watson)
 7 years

Associate Director, CRC

The Conference Board of Canada
3 years

Volunteer Experiences & Causes

Business Mentoring

McGill MBA, McGill Social Entrepreneur Program, (Lac Mégantic), Futurpreneur, Professional Services

Pro-bono consulting to NGO's & Individuals

Palliative Care Residence, Community Shares, Multiple mid-career professionals

Independent Board membership

McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)

Fundraising

H&S, RCC, WIPCR, NOVA, WICWC etc. through RRLT

Education

McGill University & Université Laval
Undergraduate and Graduate, Industrial Relations, 1974-79

University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Caterpillar Business Strategy Executive Program, 2013

Queen’s University and York University
Pfizer Leadership Development Programs on Change and Innovation, 2005, 2008