Jamie Millar-Dixon

Seminar Speaker

With over 35 years of Human Resources experience, Jamie Millar-Dixon is recognized for leading inclusive hiring initiatives with organizations she worked with in the past. She is particularly focused on recruitment, retention, training, and consulting services focused on helping employers increase workforce inclusion of people with disabilities in Canada.

As Principal Consultant with MacLeod Silver HR Business Partners, Jamie continually supports diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion projects and this is a passionate niche for her consulting business.  She led the development, launched, and took the operational lead of BC Partners in Workforce Innovation (BC WiN), an initiative that expanded to CAN WiN and she created the Four Pillars of Accessible Employment model, also used by CAN WiN as a foundation of services. 

A summary of Jamie’s previous experience creating a number of initiatives to build employer capacity with respect to DEI.

  • Developed and led ‘Stars for Success,’ an initiative to connect street youth to employment in 4 and 5 star hotels in Vancouver, while working as Director of Human Resources at The Westin Grand Hotel.
  • Led an initiative for BC’s tourism and hospitality sector after the 2010 Games, focused on increasing workforce inclusion of people with disabilities in the sector.
  • Founder and operational lead of BC WiN and CAN WiN.
  • BC WiN led to identifying and developing the Four Pillars of Accessible and Inclusive Employment which became a signature foundational approach, including training that employers could relate to.
  • Co-created Untapped Talent B2B Guide on Innovative Recruitment and Retention in 2020, a practical business guide on how to adjust each stage in the recruitment and retention process to better engage people with disabilities and people who reside in the downtown east side of Vancouver.
  • From 2020-2023, led the development of recruitment and retention recommendations to Accessibility Standards Canada to support The Accessible Canada Act.
  • Participated in selecting and mentoring the current CAN WiN team members, including hiring people with disabilities to join the team at a known rate of 50%.