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Adriana Leigh

About Me

I am an international award-winning changemaker, thought leader and Founder and Principal Consultant at ALG Consulting. I bring 20 years of diverse global experience as a workplace human rights lawyer and facilitator in building respectful and collaborative teams and workplaces, gender-based violence prevention and DEI. She has vast experience working nationally and internationally with the United Nations and international aid organizations, in addition to the private and public sector. As a policy advisor, I help organizations develop inclusive trauma-informed policies and processes including policies on harassment, gender-based violence, discrimination prevention and workplace wellbeing, with expertise in reporting mechanisms to build a safer culture. As a facilitator and learning and development designer, I have expertise in building the skills necessary to implement policies, improve empathetic communication, prevent and respond to harassment and discrimination, and manage conflict across difference. I draws on heart, humour, and deep subject matter and human rights education expertise! I have worked with a wide range of global organizations including: Google Ads Legal Team, Communications Security Establishment Canada, Crossroads International, UN Women Georgia, Public Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia, Human Rights Legal Support Centre of Ontario – SHARE Project, UN International Trade Center -She Trades Initiative and Electricity Human Resources Canada. A natural facilitator, at once positive, passionate, forceful, articulate, and pragmatic, clients respond most favourably to my candor, sense of humour, warmth, and knack for communicating concepts practically, building capacity and identifying gaps in policy and culture.

Experience

Seniority LevelDirector
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive

Certification

Total Certifications8

Nonviolent Communication Foundations 2 & 3: Empathic Listening for Connection & Dialogue for What Matters, Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, Henry Wai, Presence and Possibility, 2022

Creative Facilitation 1, PYE Global, 2019

Gender-based Analysis (GBA), Status of Women Canada, 2018

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, BSAFE, UNFPA, USDSS, 2018

Civil, Commercial and Workplace Mediation Training, Barreau du Québec, 2014

Masters Certificate in Adult Training and Development, Canadian Organization Development Institute/York University Schulich School of Business, 2013

B.C.L./LL.B., McGill University, 2006

B.A. International Development/Spanish, Dalhousie University, 2001

Skills

Core skills24
Languages2

Skills

Workplace policy
Facilitation
Workplace training expertise
Human rights law (workplace discrimination and harassment)
Workplace occupational health and safety
Gender-based harassment and violence prevention
Workplace well-being
Human rights education
Workplace learning and development
Cross-sector knowledge building and sharing
Cross-cultural knowledge building and sharing
Trauma-informed approaches
HR
DEI
Workplace culture and policy
Empathic listening
Dialogue
Creative facilitation
Gender-based analysis
Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse
Civil mediation
Commercial mediation
Workplace mediation
Adult training and development

Languages

English (British)
English

Services