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 working for SAIT Polytechnic, Shell Canada, LNG Canada and now Fort McKay Group of Companies. 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, developing effective and culturally/regionally appropriate strategies for talent acquisition, talent management and talent development and including a broad focus on diversity in the workplace and Indigenous relations. Joining Fort McKay Group of Companies in 2020. She is responsible for the entire HR and Payroll portfolio developing and implementing an 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 of indigenous employees has tripled to 27% of the employees with 12% of employees identifying as Indigenous females.