Meet Corey Bainerman

Key Topics:

HR Strategy and Advisory
Total Reward
Employee Engagement
Assessments
Career Development

Corey is a fractional HR Executive, facilitator, coach, and strategic advisor. He is a three-time Head of HR, sitting on multiple leadership teams and reporting to boards of directors. He brings over 15 years of experience in both consulting and evolving HR functions. He leads culture transformation mandates, develops leadership capacity, builds engaged, healthy cultures, and contributes to organizational effectiveness.

Corey’s areas of focus include HR strategy development, total rewards, leadership development, employee journey mapping, onboarding, employee engagement, progression frameworks, hybrid strategy, talent and succession planning, and career transition consulting.

Corey has worked with clients in various industries, including tech, start-up/scale-ups,eCommerce, engineering, financial services, not-for-profit, professional services, and automotive. Corey has held executive roles with Orangutech and Monkedia and leadership roles at Shopify. WSP, and GALE Partners. Corey has contributed as a speaker and writer on the topics of total rewards, leadership, culture, and performance management.

Corey holds a Master's in Organizational Psychology from the University of Waterloo and an Honours Degree in Psychology from York University. He has completed an HRExecutives Accelerator program led by the great Lars Schmidt of Amplify Talent and an Adult Learning and Development certificate from the University of Toronto. Corey is an Executive Coach certified by the Certified Coaches Federation.

Key Offerings:

HR peer Group
Unicorn Leadership
Executive Coaching
Workshop Facilitation

Career Highlights:

As VP of People & Culture, the Ottawa Business Journal recognized Corey for building the #1 company culture in all of Ottawa in 2023. This organization’s culture was also ranked 27th nationally by Great Place to Work Canada in 2023.
Co-facilitated 4-day Executive Team Effectiveness programs with the Executive teams at Rogers and at Ontario Power Generation.Starting Good Growth HR
Starting Good Growth HR

Accreditations

  1. Certified Coach Practitioner from the Certified Coaches Federation
  2. HR Executive Accelerator Certificate from Lars Schmidt’s Amplify Academy
  3. Certificate in Adult Learning and Development from the University of Toronto Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
  4. Masters in Organizational Psychology from the University of Waterloo

Specializations

  1. Chief People Officer (fractional engagements); HR Strategy development
  2. Facilitation of Leadership Development Programs
  3. Designing world-class employee journeys / experiences
  4. Executive Coaching
  5. HR Advisory

Likes and interests:

In Corey's spare time, he enjoys playing baseball and tennis, hiking, hosting dinner parties with his wife, and taking walks with his 21-month-old and 5-week-old children. He also has a strong love for broccoli!