Struggling to Fill Positions or Expand Your Workforce?
If you’re unsure how to tap into the rich talent pool of individuals with disabilities, now is the perfect time to discover a diverse, skilled workforce ready to help your business succeed. Let us guide you in unlocking this valuable resource and setting your business up for long-term growth!
What does it take to truly make accessibility and inclusion thrive? It’s not just about policies—it’s about action! Commitment, Readiness, Recruitment, and Retention—these Four Pillars form the foundation of a dynamic, inclusive workplace that not only welcomes people with disabilities but empowers them to succeed.
In this interactive and insightful two-hour workshop hosted by Tourism HR Canada’s Tourism Workplace Accessibility Clinic, we’ll dive deep into each of these Four Pillars, equipping you with practical, easy to apply, real-world strategies to transform your recruitment and retention practices. You’ll leave with actionable tools to build an accessible workforce that strengthens your organization and fosters true diversity regardless of whether you are a small, medium, or large employer.
This session is designed to meet the unique business needs of Canada’s tourism employers, offering customized solutions that ensure accessibility and inclusion are easily integrated into your workplace.
Learning Outcomes:
- Master how to easily adapt recruitment and retention practices to enhance workforce inclusion for people with disabilities.
- Gain practical, tactical solutions you can easily apply immediately.
- Learn how the Four Pillars can be brought to life in real-world settings.
- Ensure your organization meets provincial/territorial or federal accessibility legislation requirements with confidence.
Details:
Date: Thursday, January 30
Time: 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Eastern
Cost: Free
Let’s turn accessibility into your organization’s strength—together!
About the Training Facilitators:
This session will be facilitated by Jamie Millar-Dixon and Jasmine Marchant, both considered experts in this field with experience in Canada’s tourism sector.
Jamie Millar-Dixon
With over 35 years of human resources experience, including working with medium to large tourism and hospitality employers, Jamie has taken an active leadership role in Canada’s DEI community and is recognized for leading inclusive hiring initiatives with organizations, focusing on helping employers to increase workforce inclusion of people with disabilities.
As Principal Consultant with MacLeod Silver HR Business Partners, Jamie continually supports diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion projects. She is the current Lead Consultant for Tourism HR Canada’s Tourism Workplace Accessibility Clinic. Jamie previously led the development, launched, and took the operational lead of BC Partners in Workforce Innovation (BC WiN), an initiative that expanded to CAN WiN from BC to ON in 2023, and she created the Four Pillars of Accessible and Inclusive Employment model.
She also took the lead in a project that made accessible employment recommendations to Accessibility Standards Canada to support the Accessible Canada Act that was widely used to support these standards.
Jasmine Marchant
Jasmine has over 20 years of human resources experience in the hospitality and tourism sector in Canada. As the Director of Human Resources at Parq Vancouver (and Edgewater Casino) from 2014 to 2019, she brought to the role a wealth of knowledge and success in human resources strategy, recruiting, training, labour relations, and performance management.
Jasmine was responsible for establishing the D&I hiring standards and practices for the organization. These standards defined the culture for the entire resort, including Hotel, Food and Beverage, and Casino: 2000 employees. Jasmine led Canada’s first Community Benefits Agreement initiative at Parq Vancouver, to increase hiring of people with disabilities, people who reside in the downtown east side of Vancouver, amongst other designated groups of people who are traditionally under-represented in the workforce. She is also a BC Workplace Inclusion Awards, Diversity & Inclusion – Leadership Champion for constant support of opportunities to increase employment for people who are traditionally at a disadvantage.
Jasmine contributed to the project that made accessible employment recommendations to Accessibility Standards Canada to support the Accessible Canada Act that was widely used to support these standards.
Funded by the Government of Canada’s Opportunities Fund.