Board and Executive Leadership Qualifications

Tom is Chair of the Board CODE Inc. and Director of CODE. CODE Inc. specializes in election materials in developing countries worldwide. CODE Inc. is the for profit affiliate of CODE. CODE is the not-for-profit charity supporting global literacy. Tom is a Director of C-CORE. C-CORE is an international leader in innovative engineering technologies for natural resource sectors.

Tom is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA). He is an Institute of Corporate Directors, Certified Director (ICD.D).  Tom received the designation Chartered Director (C. Dir.) from The Directors College. With these combined designations Tom actively applies a unique mix of financial & governance expertise and HR insight to Board decision making.

Tom is the Executive Director, Corporate Services for the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA). In his capacity at the CCA, Tom provides leadership in corporate governance, accounting & finance, HR, and IT systems. Prior to joining CCA, Tom worked in the management consultant sector, serving as Vice President with Right Management, and Managing Director with Alan Davis & Associates. Before this, he worked with the ATCO Group.

POINT OF VIEW

The future focus of HRPA's Thought Leadership:

I believe that HRPA’s Thought Leadership should reflect the new knowledge paradigm of the 21st century both in building the skills and knowledge through HR research that is essential to Canada's success as a country and a society and, in training the next generation of Canadian leaders. HRPA, as the leading HR Association in Canada, has a responsibility to provide a strong base of Thought Leadership research.  As such, I led the start up of the Research Foundation (now called HRRI). The Human Resources Research Institute purpose is to advances the mission of HRPA and the profession as a Thought Leader by funding both scholarships and empirical research projects that have clear application to HR practice. HRPA’s long term strategic direction should be to continue to investigate means by which it can add value in strengthening Thought Leadership research, especially in ways that are bold and transformational.

The need to take decisive action:

Performing as an effective Board Director is to be bold, courageous, and decisive.  A Director needs to see beyond the immediate environment and make the right long-term choices.  I demonstrated this when HRPA went through significant governance and operational change — which was needed to stay relevant and provide leadership to the profession. Business and the environment changes constantly and waits for no one.  HR has to be at the forefront of facing these changes and to ensure that organizations are well prepared.   The role of HRPA is to see beyond the turn in the road, to provide leadership to the profession and its members.  I believe that there will always be a need to critically access our abilities to truly support our members and the profession.  This means that change within the Association will be a constant and this requires a Board Director who will be bold, courageous, and decisive.


Thank you for your support!

Tom Bursey, CHRP