Stephanie Abbott

Stephanie has spent more than 25 years leading Human Resources at Canadian and multinational organizations, including Lockheed Martin, JPMorgan Chase and Amazon, with 15+ years leading HR functions across multi-region and global organizations. She now brings that experience to organizations that need senior HR leadership without a full-time hire, or that need support quickly.

Organizations typically bring Stephanie in when they are scaling quickly, integrating an acquisition, restructuring, building HR for the first time, or strengthening an existing HR function. Clients value her ability to build trust quickly, cut through complexity, deliver practical solutions and coach leaders through challenges and change.

High-impact Human Resources transforms organizations by building trust, inspiring collaboration and deepening engagement, turning people strategy into sustained performance.

• Strategic HR advisory. An ongoing advisor to you and your executive team on people, organizational design and leadership decisions.
• Fractional HR leadership. Senior HR leadership, part-time, for organizations that need a strategic HR executive, but not a full-time one.
• Interim HR leadership. Steps in quickly during a leadership gap, restructuring or period of rapid change, keeping the function stable and moving.
• Project-based consulting. Organizational design and effectiveness, workforce and succession planning, talent strategy, leadership development and HR transformation.
• Executive coaching. Certified coaching for senior leaders, leadership transitions and teams.

• Head of Human Resources for a Lockheed Martin Canada division and member of its Canadian senior leadership team; led the HR workstream of a multi-phased national reorganization and division-wide succession and workforce planning.
• HR Director across Canada, the U.S. and U.K. for a global safety equipment manufacturer; built a business case that moved U.S. recruitment in-house for $132K in annual savings, and led a market wage strategy that improved recruitment and retention.
• HR Site Lead at an Amazon Canada fulfillment centre, leading a 12-person HR team in a high-volume, complex operation.
• HR Manager and corporate leadership team member for a growing Alberta municipality; rebuilt the HR team and processes and led the people side of a utility acquisition.
• HR and safety leader for a Newell Rubbermaid manufacturing site, with global health and safety audit scores of 97% and 98%, tied for highest worldwide.
• Fractional Head of Global HR for a high-growth technology company, and Director-level HR advisor to municipal and not-for-profit clients through CECai.

Defence, energy, financial services, technology, e-commerce, manufacturing, municipal government, and the public and not-for-profit sectors.

• Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR), CPHR New Brunswick
• Certified Executive Coach (CEC) and Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching, Royal Roads University
• Bachelor of Business Administration (HR major), Husson University
• Diploma in Business Administration (HR major), Algonquin College

stephanie@cecai.ca