This webinar will offer promising practices for non-Indigenous organizations to consider when recruiting and retaining an Indigenous workforce. Indigenous Peoples have unique legislative considerations as employees that may have implications for researchers and health leaders. This webinar builds on an article in the November 2025 supplement of Healthcare Management Forum, dedicated to health workforce planning, in which Kienan Williams discusses workforce surveys from an Indigenous employee perspective (What), identifies legislation and taxation considerations for health workforce leaders regarding Indigenous employees (So What), and shares organizational measurement tools and promising practices (Now What).
Featured Speaker:
Kienan Williams
Indigenous Wellness, Planning & Quality
Primary Care Alberta
Kienan spent three decades moving around northern and southern Ontario, and the last decade living, working, and playing in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Kienan's education has focused on Public Health and how to use system-thinking to influence the health outcomes of large groups of people, especially First Nation individuals.
Kienan Williams writes from an Indigenous, decolonial, critical constructivist perspective. “Indigenous” because Kienan is Anishnawbe, Cree, First Nation, registered to both the Indian Act and Sandy Lake First Nation. “Decolonial” because Kienan uses quantitative methods to analyze colonial legislation from epidemiological studies of Indigenous population health in Canada. Kienan's also uses a “critical constructivist” approach to assess foundational misunderstandings regarding Indigenous Peoples, sometimes referred to as being one of the most studied populations on Earth.
Moderator:
Ivy Bourgeault, PhD
University of Ottawa, Canadian Health Workforce Network
Guest Editor, November 2025 supplement, HMF
Ivy is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. She leads the Canadian Health Workforce Network, the Empowering Women Leaders in Health initiative and co-leads the Team Primary Care: Training for Transformation project.
She is an internationally recognized expert on the professions, including academia and the health workforce, where she applies an intersectional gender perspective.
Fees:
CCHL members: FREE
Non-members: $40.00
