Beginning her career in HSE as a first responder, the core of her passions have always been around helping people, which ultimately led her down a path towards competency management, learning, training and HR. Mary Beth’s innate ability to develop and implement programs that strategically build and grow talent brought her around the world focusing on workforce nationalization and local content development in third world countries and emerging markets. She has managed portfolios in every industry from oil and gas, hotels, emergency services and governments (among others) in Africa, Australia, Canada, Central America and the U.S, in both public and private sectors, with SAIT Polytechnic, Shell Canada and LNG Canada. 

Mary Beth’s diverse career gives her a unique skill set including commercial business development, strategy creation, project management and execution, joint venture governance, LMS and HRIS system implementations and developing effective and culturally/regionally appropriate strategies for talent acquisition, talent management and talent development with a focus on diversity in the workplace which includes Indigenous, Labour and employee relations. Joining Fort McKay Group of Companies in 2020, she is responsible for the entire HR portfolio developing and implementing HR strategies aligned with the company core purpose and values.  Fort McKay Group of Companies has ~2000 employees and since she has joined the organization the number od Indigenous employees has tripled to 27% of employees with 12% identifying as Indigenous females from over 100 different First Nations communities across Canada.