The Canadian College of Health Leaders is proud to announce that Workforce Edge Consulting has been named recipient of the 2024 President’s Award for Outstanding Corporate Membership in the College. This award recognizes a corporate member who has consistently helped the College achieve its purpose, values and strategic directions.
CCHL is awarding this prize to Workforce Edge Consulting in recognition of the organization’s ongoing and consistent engagement and support of the College, our priorities and programming. They have demonstrated over the years that they believe in leadership development and the purpose of the Canadian College of Health Leaders.
Workforce Edge Consulting has been a corporate member of the College since 2016. Shawn Drake, Managing Partner of Workforce Edge Consulting is currently a member of the Corporate Advisory Council.
As College President and CEO Alain Doucet remarked “we know we can always count on Workforce Edge to be responsive and be there when we need them. They are part of the fabric and the community we are building at the College, and we are very grateful”.
Through their financial contributions, Workforce Edge Consulting has helped support several CCHL events and conferences. They have been a sponsor of the National Health Leadership Conference (NHLC) in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022, sponsor of the CCHL National Conference in 2023, sponsor of the Canada West Health Leaders Conference (formerly BCHLC) in 2017 and 2018, and sponsor of the 2022 and 2023 Colloque francophone des leaders en santé.
Since 2001, Workforce Edge has provided the hands-on expertise and the deep, organizational change management necessary for healthcare organizations to transform their staff scheduling practices across the continuum of care. This highly specialized team is the premier partner in workforce optimization for integrated acute care, long-term care, home and community health, complex ambulatory networks and emergency health services. Having established the field of “health workforce optimization” more than two decades ago, solutions are tailored to meet each client’s unique needs and are delivered by experts with deep industry knowledge and experience.
Workforce Edge is a software vendor-neutral organization, and focuses on the critical work “around the system” – required to advance the strategic workforce planning, and staff scheduling and deployment business functions. By helping to bring many values alive that are important to the healthcare workforce, such as transparency, equity, inclusion, safety, and predictability – the application of Workforce Edge’s Health Workforce Optimization Model © has secured proven benefits such more highly engaged workforces, better alignment of intended skill to patients needs, and savings to budget and reductions in total spend supporting sustainability of healthcare service delivery across Canada and abroad.
The President’s Award is given annually to a corporate member in good standing who has at the minimum five years of continuous involvement with the College and has supported CCHL activities and programs in a tangible manner. In addition, the successful nominee has provided advice on ways and means to enhance the College’s corporate membership program and assistance to the College in the achievement of its objectives.
This award is part of our CCHL National Awards Program. and will be presented at the Honouring Health Leadership event on June 2, 2024.
Watch Workforce Edge’s acceptance video from the Honouring Health Leadership Event this past June!
For further information and/or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Christian Coulombe
Vice-President, Marketing & Membership
Canadian College of Health Leaders
613-235-7219, ext. 213
ccoulombe@cchl-ccls.ca
