Board of Directors

The CPHR Alberta Board of Directors is comprised of dedicated volunteers elected by the membership. 

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WHO WE ARE

Our Board

Shauna Yohemas, CPHR, She/Her

Shauna Yohemas, CPHR, She/Her

Director

Shauna Yohemas is a strategic and progressive leader with a passion for facilitating exceptional employee experiences by helping leaders to create the conditions where people are highly engaged and able to do their best work. Shauna actively seeks out opportunities to create an inclusive and supportive environment, where every individual can thrive as organizations succeed.


She brings significant experience serving in human resources, senior leadership and board roles and holds a Master of Arts in Leadership degree from Royal Roads University. In her studies, Shauna explored how organizations can benefit by incorporating polarity thinking to leverage the best of seemingly opposite alternatives in decision-making and studied how leadership can effectively be distributed through the activation of emergent leadership. Shauna is a Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR) and a Society for Human Resources Management Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP).


Shauna lives in the Edmonton area with her husband and kids, and serves as the Vice President, People, Culture & Equity at NorQuest College. In her role, she helps shape the work environment while fostering a strong organizational culture that reflects the colleges values and purpose. In partnership with her passionate and dedicated teams, she strategically leads the development and implementation of work designed to strengthen programs and practices associated with organizational development & effectiveness, talent management and advancing equity.


BACK TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Geordie MacPherson, CPHR, He/Him

Chair

Jesse Grieder, CPHR, He/Him

Vice-Chair

Lisa Watson, CPHR, She/Her

Director, CPHR Canada Rep

Mahyar Alinejad, CPHR, She/Her

Director

Lyn Brown, ICD.D, She/Her

Public Director

Rob Caswell, CPHR, He/Him

Director

Rob Dombowsky, CPHR, He/Him

Director

Landis Jackson, CPHR, She/Her

Director

Karen Krull, CPHR, She/Her

Director

Rebecca Lee, CPHR, She/Her

Director

Katherine Salucop, CPHR, She/Her

Director

Megan Vaughan, CPHR, She/Her

Director

Shauna Yohemas, CPHR, She/Her

Director

CPHR ALBERTA BOARD

Board Recruitment

We highly value diversity and support the election and appointment of diverse candidates to the Board. The Board believes that having directors of diverse gender, race and ethnicity, along with 

varied skills, perspective and experiences, contributes to a balanced and effective Board – one that is well-positioned to address the changing needs of the organization and our membership.

CPHR Alberta Board of Directors Inclusion and Diversity Statement

As the professional association dedicated to strengthening the human resources profession and upholding the highest standards of practice for our 6,000 members in Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, CPHR Alberta strives to be a culturally diverse organization that recognizes, supports, and values the inclusion of diverse groups and perspectives in support of our vision, mission and guiding principles. 


CPHR Alberta’s Board of Directors believes in inclusion and diversity, and recognizes the benefits inclusion and diversity bring to our volunteer Board of Directors. We are committed to integrating 

inclusive thinking and behaviors into all of the ways that the Board operates, recognizing that diversity promotes the inclusion of different perspectives and ideas, encourages innovation, ensures good governance, and supports good decision making.


CPHR Alberta aims to maintain a board comprised of talented and dedicated volunteer directors with a diverse mix of expertise, experience, skills and backgrounds representative of the diverse 

nature of the members we serve. We respect the value that diverse life experiences bring to our board and leadership. The Board strives to ensure that its membership reflects diversity in its broadest sense, and to connect diversity and inclusion with our vision and mission for the benefit of our members and the public. Diversity and inclusion drive excellence.