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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.

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Gary Furlong — Director

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

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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.

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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.

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Al Loyst

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

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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.

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Leanne Gray

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

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Cathy Loyst

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

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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.

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Anne Healy

Over 30 years as union and management leader with CUPE, as well as a workplace mediator in Ontario.

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Allison Arnold

Over 25 years in human resources, strategy and labour relations at Wilfred Laurier University, leading collective bargaining and union-management relationships in academic and non-academic employee groups

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Senior Consultants

Hemi and Al are some of the most experience labour relations leaders in Canada.

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Hemi Mitic

Veteran labour negotiator with 40+ years at Unifor, awarded the MVO by Queen Elizabeth II, and former member of Ontario’s labour arbitrator selection committee.

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Al Orth

Over 40 years in senior labour relations roles and strategic human resources operations for both public and private sector organizations across Canada.

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Coming Fall 2027

Executive Certificate in Labour Relations

Earn an Executive Certificate in Labour Relations from the Academy. Be first to know when the Certificate Program is launched.

The LR Fix

One practical insight into a common labour relations situation,

twice a month on a Monday morning.

Free.

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