Pesce &amp; Associates is a full-service human resources consulting group that provides comprehensive, strategic consulting services carefully tailored to each client’s unique needs. We strive to be the leader in providing high-quality, relevant and innovative consulting services to clients.
Pesce &amp; Associates partners with our clients to provide them with the means to achieve positive workplaces where staff are engaged and aligned with their organization’s mission, values and strategic goals. 
We provide our clients with: practical advice; principled solutions; proven expertise.
<h5>CONSULTING SERVICE AREAS:</h5>
Compliance and Policy Development
Being compliant with employment legislation is crucial as most legislation contains penalties that carry substantial monetary consequences. As well, the organization’s reputation in the community as a good and responsible employer is critical to its credibility and is threatened by non-compliance. To assist organizations in this area, we offer the following services:
<ul>
	<li>Creating policies to ensure compliance with legislation and alignment with best practices.</li>
	<li>Conducting a human resources review to determine compliance in policies and systems as well as determine their effectiveness.</li>
	<li>Developing an Employee Handbook to ensure employees are fully aware of the values of the organization and the standards to which they must adhere.</li>
</ul>
Organizational Reviews and Effectiveness
The more employees are engaged in their work and committed to the organization’s goals and values, the more they will contribute to the organization and the longer they will stay. Success is a natural outcome of engaged staff. To assist with developing and maintaining engaged staff, we offer the following services:
<ul>
	<li>Reviewing and recommending organizational structures to ensure the best alignment with the employer’s strategic goals.</li>
	<li>Human resources strategic plan development.</li>
	<li>Conducting of employee engagement surveys to determine areas that need to be addressed to maintain and enhance employee engagement.</li>
	<li>Providing recommendations for change that will improve employee engagement.</li>
</ul>
Labour Relations
In a unionized workplace, the relationship between the employer and the staff, including the union(s) to which the staff belong, is very important. It is well known that maintaining a positive relationship with staff enhances employee commitment and productivity. To assist organizations in maintaining sound labour relations, we offer the following services:
<ul>
	<li>Representing and acting on behalf of management for contract negotiations.</li>
	<li>Assisting in the day-to-day relationship with unions by ensuring successful management of the various Union/Management processes.</li>
	<li>Assisting in managing disputes coming from the interpretation of the collective agreements.</li>
	<li>Assisting in the management of formal complaints/grievances including prepare the employer for grievance meetings.</li>
</ul>
Employee Relations
Non-unionized staff and management personnel are critical to an organization’s success. It is imperative that sound policies and terms and conditions of employment exist for this group of employees. To support employee engagement and manage employee relations, we offer the following services:
<ul>
	<li>Developing terms and conditions of employment for non-unionized staff and managers.</li>
	<li>Developing recognition programs that support organizational goals and values.</li>
	<li>Developing conflict resolution processes.</li>
	<li>Assisting in resolving conflict.</li>
	<li>Developing health and safety policies and programs.</li>
	<li>Supporting Joint Health and Safety Committees including the development of terms of reference and meeting facilitation.</li>
	<li>Developing and facilitating Return to Work / Modified Work Programs.</li>
</ul>
Performance Management
Managing performance is one of the most important duties of any manager or supervisor. Ensuring there is a complete understanding of performance expectations will enhance productivity and employee satisfaction. We offer the following services:
<ul>
	<li>Developing performance management programs including key competencies that support organizational objectives.</li>
	<li>Developing performance evaluation tools and follow-up systems.</li>
	<li>Developing processes to manage performance issues including performance improvement plans.</li>
	<li>Advising management on the handling of discipline and terminations.</li>
	<li>Conducting workplace investigations, developing recommendations and providing solutions.</li>
</ul>
Compensation
Job evaluation plans and compensation programs provide a systematic approach to determining the relative value of work and how to compensate for it. As well, it positions the organization to compete with other employers in the same industry and be compliant with legislation. We offer the following services:
<ul>
	<li>Creating new or reviewing existing Job Evaluation Plans to maintain internal equity ensuring the plan is compliant with legislation.</li>
	<li>Conducting market surveys and analyzing survey results.</li>
	<li>Developing pay bands and salary grids for management and non-unionized positions that are internally equitable and externally competitive.</li>
	<li>Developing pay for performance, incentive, and bonus plans.</li>
	<li>Developing salary administration policies.</li>
	<li>Reviewing and developing Pay Equity Plans.</li>
</ul>
Recruitment
The hiring and retaining of quality staff is a critical human resources activity. Staff are key to the success of any organization, especially at the frontlines where staff and clients interact. Selecting the right people ensures success. We offer the following services:
<ul>
	<li>Developing hiring process and guidelines.</li>
	<li>Developing and posting job postings for both internal and external recruitment.</li>
	<li>Creating a selection process including interview questions.</li>
	<li>Identifying appropriate psychometric assessments and case study/scenarios.</li>
	<li>Screening applicants and creating a list of qualified candidates.</li>
	<li>Assisting in the interviewing of candidates.</li>
	<li>Conducting reference checks.</li>
	<li>Preparing letters of offer for successful candidates.</li>
	<li>Creating an orientation program for newly hired staff to ensure understanding of the organizational goals, their duties and responsibilities and other critical information needed for a successful integration into the workplace.</li>
</ul>

Pesce & Associates Human Resources Consultants

Talent: Find, train and retain talent

Pesce &amp; Associates is a full-service human resources consulting group that provides comprehensive, strategic consulting services carefully tailored to each client’s unique needs.

Mentor Works, a Ryan Company, is a leading government funding firm dedicated to streamlining the funding and grant application process for businesses across Canada. Through Ryan ULC, an award-winning global tax services, consultancy and software provider, Mentor Works is able to offer a 360 funding experience and a grants discovery and screening platform that helps match businesses with government funding opportunities.
Ryan’s scientific research and experimental development (SR&amp;ED) practice focuses on helping businesses claim tax credits for their research and development activities. Our SR&amp;ED practice provides a range of services to help businesses identify and claim tax credits for their eligible R&amp;D activities, which can help them offset the costs of innovation and improve their financial performance.
<h5>CONSULTING SERVICE AREAS</h5>
Ryan&#8217;s government funding services are designed to help businesses maximize their chances of securing funding for their growth and innovation initiatives as well as help them optimize the impact of that funding to their business through proactive and retroactive funding. Specifically, we support our clients through:
Mentor Works, Ryan Government Grants Practice:
<ul>
	<li>Strategic Funding Analysis and Funding Identification: We work with our clients to understand their strategic initiatives and identify corresponding funding programs to meet their financing needs. We work with businesses to develop a funding strategy that aligns with their growth and innovation goals. Our grants discovery, matching and qualification process ensures business projects meet the requirements and mandates of active and available funding programs that are the best fit for upcoming business investments and initiatives. We work to develop a funding strategy that maximizes the funding potential for our clients’ initiatives in the short, medium and long term.</li>
	<li>Consulting Services: We provide our clients with strategic guidance and support throughout the government funding process. This consultancy work includes early consultancy support including having initial conversations with government funding agencies and developing pre-application documentation, through to due diligence requests.</li>
	<li>360 Approach to Funding: Finally, our team provides referrals and works closely with other Ryan practices to optimize our clients’ tax, incentive and funding approaches to ensure that we maximize our clients’ funding potential.</li>
</ul>
Ryan SR&amp;ED practice provides a range of services to help businesses identify and claim tax credits for their eligible R&amp;D activities, which can help offset the costs of innovation and improve their financial performance. The specific services provided by our Ryan SR&amp;ED Practice include:
<ul>
	<li>Eligibility Assessment: The practice helps businesses assess the eligibility of their R&amp;D activities for SR&amp;ED tax credits. Our team of technical experts and tax professionals analyze our clients’ R&amp;D projects to determine which activities qualify for tax credits.</li>
	<li>Claim Preparation: The SR&amp;ED practice prepares technical and financial reports to support the SR&amp;ED claim. Our reports are designed to provide a clear and concise description of the R&amp;D activities that qualify for tax credits and the associated expenditures.</li>
	<li>Audit Support: The practice provides support during the CRA audit process to help clients defend their SR&amp;ED claims. The team of technical experts and tax professionals assist in responding to audit questions and providing any additional documentation that may be required.</li>
	<li>Documentation Solution: Ryan offers a software solution to assist our clients to track SR&amp;ED project activity, costs and technical documentation. The software is cloud basedand is provided free of charge to our clients.</li>
</ul>
Overall, Ryan’s SR&amp;ED practice supports businesses in maximizing the value of their R&amp;D activities by claiming tax credits for eligible expenditures. The practice’s technical expertise and experience with the SR&amp;ED program helps clients navigate the complex claim preparation process and defend their claims in the event of an audit.

Mentor Works, A Ryan Company

Financial growth strategies

Government funding identification and SR&amp;ED tax credits.

M2M Business Solutions is a Canadian firm and a leader in business consultancy and advisory with a human-centric approach. With a mission to transform our clients into the “The Happy Organization,” we take pride in building a culture of inspired people, who deliver value-driven customer experience and focus on workplace innovation. 
With our flagship consulting services, “THO — The Happy Organization” and “JOY — Just Overcome Yourself,” we promise to grow organizations and people so that you can prosper together.
Our three elements — inspired employees, innovated processes and delighted customers — bring the best of internal and external stakeholders that excels the business productivity, efficiency and succession planning while everyone enjoys their roles and at the same time focuses on future opportunities and growth.
<h5>Consulting Service Areas</h5>
Business Foundation for Sustainability
This is the first pillar to building a sustainable foundation. The focus is on identifying the gaps between where the vision is leading, what strategic actions are going to be executed to get there, identifying leaders and teams that will execute, how it will be measured and what process is in place to follow up. Planning and aligning strategy with the mission and vision of the organization, operationally defining what the company stands for, their aspirations and translating it into short- and long-term strategies.
Business Strategic and Structure Aligned Planning
The second key pillar to business foundation and sustainability is strategic alignment, a process of planning and implementing practices to ensure an organization’s strategies support its general objectives. A strategically aligned business comprises operations, methods and prescribed practices that work in unison to achieve long-term company goals. The focus is on restructuring to various degrees as identified in the initial gap analysis. Looking at each department one by one and making improvements to ensure the departmental plan, people and processes are aligned with overall organization’s strategy and growth plan. Provide clarity on business structure in order to ensure the developed organization strategies are aligned to the structure and culture.
People and Process Development
This is the third key pillar to business foundation and further sustainability and growth. Identify the right people needed to execute the strategic plans and achieve vision and mission of the organization. Support the organization by evaluating the employees present and assessing the current process in order to develop both team and company processes to ensure efficiency.
Efficiency, Productivity and Cost Savings
The fourth pillar of the business foundation and growth is to ensure the right people in the organization can lead the efficiency and effectiveness of the processes. By auditing the organization’s current productivity and establishing a baseline and then further introducing efficiencies and establishing cost savings from identified initiatives. The focus is on restructuring to various degrees as identified in the initial gap analysis. Looking at each department one by one and making improvements to ensure the departmental plan, people and processes are aligned with the overall organization’s strategy and growth plan. Provide clarity on business structure in order to ensure the developed organization strategies are aligned with the structure and culture.
Succession Planning and Execution
The succession planning process is one of the most significant HR strategies in an organization because it ensures the perpetuity of the organization. From assessing your current and future strategic goals and identifying the required talent needed and then assessing the employee talent pool to developing a succession matrix with the appropriate timelines of execution and evaluation.
Business Growth Planning and Execution
Obtain the organization’s ideal growth expectation in the short- and long-term future, develop a realistic and comprehensive growth plan and strategically map the execution terms and requirements.
Market Entry and Expansion
Expanding to new markets can often be a challenging endeavor that requires substantial research and preparation. M2M can assist in gauging relevant cultural, economic and political factors to produce robust entry and expansion plans. Our deliverables provide detailed and customized actionable next steps and best practices for your company.
Talent Acquisition and Retention
Talent acquisition and retention have become strategic roles inside organizations. More than recruitment, talent acquisition and retention are an ongoing strategy that focuses on long-term resources planning to find the right people for the role. Our approach is a 360 model to ensure that right talent is acquired and then are engaged within the organization for retention.

M2M Business Solutions Inc.

M2M Business Solutions

M2M Business Solutions is a Canadian firm and a leader in business consultancy and advisory with a human-centric approach.

Our Mission
With our team on the job, you’ll stop worrying about managing technology and start having more time to focus on running your business. We think proactively about IT support, stopping issues before they arise and consulting with you to create innovative strategies to help streamline daily operations and keep your staff focused and productive.

Our Method
We provide a complete package of IT services, customized to fit your business like a glove. Here’s how we do it:

Learn about your business: Consult with you and your staff to understand your daily operations, your existing relationship with technology, and your long-term goals.
Create a plan: Together, we’ll lay out a long-term strategy focused on leveraging quality IT to improve business operations while staying within your budget.
Overcome obstacles: We’ll prepare your business for the challenges of the future, implementing security solutions and disaster recovery planning so you stay operational no matter what.
Focus on your needs: We only provide the solutions that make sense for you, even if they’re not the most profitable for us.
Stay by your side: We’re here for you 24/7 – our Help Desk offers support, and our outsourced CIO guides you towards strategic uses of technology.

Cat-Tec Inc.

Leverage technology to grow business

IT services by Canadians, for Canadians – Cat-Tec is your complete outsourced IT department, providing technology solutions for real-world business issues.

Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and business advisory firm providing accounting, audit, tax and advisory services to private and public organizations. We help dynamic organizations unlock their potential for growth by providing meaningful, actionable advice through a broad range of services. Grant Thornton LLP is a Canadian member of Grant Thornton International Ltd, whose member and correspondent firms operate in over 130 countries worldwide.

<h5>CONSULTING SERVICE AREAS</h5>

M&amp;A and divestitures: Unlock the value of your business with Grant Thornton

Dealing with disruptive change in today’s business environment is never easy, but with actionable advice, you can create value, manage risk, and take advantage of opportunities. Whether you’re looking to grow, sell, or buy, we can help you find the straightforward path to drive success today and beyond. You won’t make decisions alone — our trusted advisors will support you with navigating the buying or selling process to understand the risks and rewards. Whether you run a business of a few employees or hundreds, we work across all industries from energy and technology to agriculture and transportation to drive optimal value for you.

With personalized advice that puts you and your business needs first, you can rely on us to develop strategies that will maximize your deal, whether sell-side competition or buy-side success. In 2021, Grant Thornton was the leader in mid-market activity with over $2.7B of enterprise value from over 35 transactions.

Move forward with cash flow forecasting and financial modelling from Grant Thornton

A year-end review isn’t enough anymore — you need deeper insights about your current and future position to make informed and effective decisions today. With advanced financial modelling, you can access robust data quickly with the ability to update information as it changes while understanding your risks and opportunities for growth. We have a full-service, experienced team you can rely on to help you interpret and analyze this data, mitigate risk and advise on the best strategic decisions to move your business forward. Whether you oversee a small business of a few employees or large-scale operation of multiple locations, our advisors have deep market knowledge across a range of industries building dynamic and integrated models. Be empowered to make the right decisions at the right time.

Achieve accuracy, transparency and efficiency with Grant Thornton’s cloud accounting service

Breaking through to the next business milestone often means you need to break free from time-consuming tasks that keep you drowning in details. Cloud accounting provides you with easy access to a clearer picture of your finances in real-time, increases efficiency with automated tasks, securely protects your data and enhances collaboration with your team — wherever they are. We can customize any cloud application to meet your unique needs, so it can be easily scaled as your business grows and evolves. From small businesses to large public companies, our advisors have worked across a wide range of industries like energy, tourism, retail and more. No matter your size or business stage, cloud accounting can replace the need for traditional bookkeepers or complement your existing financial team by automating administrative tasks. By analyzing your data and turning it into meaningful insights, our team can help you understand how your business is performing, where you can earn potential savings and which growth opportunities can drive the best value.

Succession planning with Grant Thornton: Pass your torch without the complications

Whether you’re planning to pass your business down to a family member or need an effective exit strategy, our experienced advisors can help you determine your options, navigate any emotional complexities and clear a path for you to enjoy your next chapter, whatever it may be.

The decisions you make now will affect the future of your business, your employees, your customers — and most importantly, your loved ones. With an experienced and reliable advisor, you can ensure the longevity of your enterprise thanks to a partnership based on trust, active listening, strategic planning and an in-depth understanding of the relationships between the family, business and ownership. Remove the strain caused by emotional challenges and interpersonal dynamics with our specialized team of Family Enterprise Advisors who can help establish harmony among all stakeholders and bridge the gap between competing interests to find a unified purpose and mutually beneficial path forward.

Grant Thornton LLP

Grant Thornton

Unlock your potential for growth with credible and reliable accounting, audit, tax and advisory services. &nbsp;

Business families, like yours, are becoming more discerning about the advisors they bring into their fold. With ownership, the business and the family to consider, family business advising has become a highly complex field requiring advisors to be fluent in the complexities and nuances of serving business families. Only the Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA) designation prepares advisors to be fluent in “family enterprise.”

<h5>CONSULTING SERVICE AREAS</h5>

At Family Enterprise Canada, we have trained and certified over 500 Family Enterprise Advisors. Meet our designated FEAs from a variety of disciplines who can offer you a wide range of services to meet your needs, including:

<ul>
 	<li>Advisory boards</li>
 	<li>Dispute resolution</li>
 	<li>Family education</li>
 	<li>Estate planning and trusts</li>
 	<li>Facilitation/mediation/coaching</li>
 	<li>Family business advising</li>
 	<li>Family law</li>
 	<li>Family office</li>
 	<li>Financial planning</li>
 	<li>Governance</li>
 	<li>Leadership development</li>
 	<li>Philanthropy</li>
 	<li>Private banking</li>
 	<li>Succession planning</li>
 	<li>Tax planning</li>
 	<li>Wealth management</li>
</ul>

Family Enterprise Canada

Connect with the family enterprise community and leverage family business-focused peer programs, educational tools and resources.

A global shift is redefining the contract between businesses and their communities from simply being responsible to creating real social value. Society, governments and investors are nudging firms to do better.

In that context, the Goodman Sustainability Group is a full-service global consulting firm dedicated to supporting corporate sustainability (action on net-zero, ESG and corporate social purpose). This is the new frontier your business to create both shareholder and societal value.

Since our inception in 2014, we have been at the forefront of thought leadership relative to helping firms consider sustainable value creation. Our methods recognize that one size does not fit all, and we tailor our offering accordingly. We welcome the opportunity to work with SMEs and businesses of all sizes.

More specifically, we understand the unique business pain points for SMEs going into an uncertain business future (talent acquisition/retention, cash costs, inflation impacts, access to/cost of capital, supply chain complexities, etc.), and our services spotlight how net-zero and ESG/purpose performance can address these issues and enable business competitiveness and long-term survivability.

Corporate sustainability models are rapidly evolving and are currently still a nascent subject. As such, we utilize an evergreen group of third-party curated content experts who have demonstrated relevant expertise in the details of these matters, and who have worked with SMEs previously. This is a unique offering.

<h5>CONSULTING SERVICE AREAS</h5>

ESG and Competitiveness: Spotlight on Environment

We can help you build an environmental and net-zero plan that is right-sized for your business within your sector and geography.

ESG and Competitiveness: Spotlight on Corporate Governance 

We can help you build and maintain a fit-for-purpose governance framework for your small business.

ESG and Competitiveness: Spotlight on Social

We can help you build a future-fit diverse and inclusive business that attracts and retains talent.

ESG and Competitiveness: Spotlight on Corporate Purpose

We will help you understand what you need to know about the new frontier of corporate sustainability for SMEs and why action on all enables competitiveness and survivability.

Goodman Sustainability Group

Using diversity and sustainability to boost business performance

Develop and implement a social purpose agenda — one that is right-sized for your small business.

At Salary.com, you have direct access to a team of compensation experts who are easy to work with and committed to providing insights and recommendations that help you succeed.

Our team delivers creative, data-driven solutions backed by 50 years of combined total rewards consulting experience. We have unparalleled access to data and take full advantage of our state-of-the-art compensation platform, CompAnalyst®, to deliver solutions for your compensation and total rewards challenges.

<h5>CONSULTING SERVICE AREAS</h5>

Pay Equity Audit and Certification

Our compensation experts have a systematic process for assessing your business’s internal and external compensation strategies to determine the extent to which employees are paid fairly.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Our consultants will assess your pay practices and DEI initiatives and provide a framework to help your business evolve towards a more inclusive, fair and competitive workplace.

Total Rewards Strategy Development

We will help you align your total rewards strategy with your overall compensation philosophy.

Job Design

Our consultants will help you streamline your job process and will provide you with recommendations to improve performance, pay transparency and employee engagement.

Pay and Benefits Design

We can help you design and implement compensation and benefit programs based on your goals and unique business environment.

HR Metrics and Analytics

A higher-performing human resources function is essential to helping your business meet its objectives. Our consultants will review your current metrics, establish benchmarks and provide a model for measuring effectiveness over time.

Salary.com

Get pay right with trusted data, intuitive software and shared best practices.

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