Our Team
Every facilitator and coach brings decades of frontline experience across bargaining, mediation, and workplace training.
Our Team
Lead Facilitators & Coaches
Every facilitator and coach brings decades of frontline experience. Each is available to participants long after their program ends.

Gary Furlong — Director
30 years mediating collective agreements across Canada, twenty years as lead facilitator at Queen's Industrial Relations Centre.

Blaine Donais
Over 30 years as union-side labour lawyer leading collective bargaining and grievance administration, author of numerous books, founder of Workplace Fairness International.

Marshall Schnapp
Over 10 years training and mediating with unions and management in challenging workplaces, many years as external ombuds for numerous municipalities in Canada.

Al Loyst
45 years lead union negotiator for CAW/Unifor, 25 years coach and facilitator at Queen's Industrial Relations Centre.

Mike Lumb
32-year career in public education. Local president and lead negotiator for Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, 8+ years coach and facilitator at Queen's Industrial Relations Centre.

Leanne Gray
Over 30 years in senior HR/LR positions ranging from manufacturing, municipalities, policing and health care.

Cathy Loyst
Over 25 years in elected union positions, including 16 years as a local president negotiating agreements and grievances.

Andy Macdonald
35 years in roles including elected union executive, fire chief and emergency services leader, and 20+ years facilitator and coach at Queen's Industrial Relations Centre.
Senior Consultants
Hemi and Al are some of the most experience labour relations leaders in Canada.
Coming Fall 2027
Executive Certificate in Labour Relations
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The LR Fix
One practical insight into a common labour relations situation,
twice a month on a Monday morning.
Free.



