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An International Transformation Leader working with organizations looking to optimize their people services through implementing new ways of working through HR & Diversity programs, HR delivery models and enabling technology. With over 20 years’ experience in the HR field and a Masters in Strategic HR Marsha holds both a CHRL and a MCIPD UK HR Professional designation. Marsha has worked with a number of organisations from the public, private and NFP sectors to deliver their business outcomes through improving their people practices . As organisations have moved to new HR shared services models Marsha has completed a number of end to end implementations introducing multi-tiered HR services and with self-service, leveraging technology and using agile and change management. Marsha’s passion has always been people orientated and this has enabled her to carve out a career that ensures this is always at the centre. She started her career in training and development in the Financial sector working in both retail and commercial banking then moved to be the Diversity and CSR lead where she integrated both business and people practices later moving on from the Finance Sector to the ‘Third Sector’ in the UK. Through her work she has improved employee engagement scores, employee performance, leadership accountability,improved reporting and accountability around Diversity, integrated diversity HR practices to improve representation at all levels and carried out a research project that resulted in developing the UKhousing sector's first Supplier Diversity approach. Marsha currently resides in Canada and is at TIFF as the VP, People & Culture managing the Human Resources for the well renowned organization as well as leading the Diversity portfolio for both employee practices and the approach to all things related to TIFF. Prior to TIFF Marsha was the Interim Chief People Officer at the City Toronto and the Director of the newly formed Service Hub responsible for developing and implementing their first shared service and managing over 30,000 employee calls during COVID and 1000’s of vacancies to keep the city moving . She also steered the vaccination roll-out by recruiting 1000’s of staff; with a diversity lens providing c200 people from the wider diverse communities an opportunity to support the efforts many of which got their first job and therefore work experience. Marsha has held a number of voluntary roles as a Mentor to undergraduates and as a Trustee on a number of charities supporting the various agendas. She has also been a mentor for Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) having been mentored in the same program when she immigrated to Canada. Marsha’s other Board roles have included Stella’s Place who provide free mental health services for young people. One of her most proudest achievements was as a Trustee on the Memorial Statue Appeal to Mary Seacole (MSMSA) a Jamaican nurse who nursed wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. The charity raised funds to build a statue, the first in the UK to a named black woman, erected in 2016 in London, England.