Bestselling and award winning author, Executive Producer, and Professional Speaker, Charmaine Hammond is passionate about building healthy workplaces, raising dreams and telling stories that matter. Charmaine Hammond, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) is a highly sought-after business keynote and workshop speaker, entrepreneur, author and educator who teaches and advocates the importance of developing trust, healthy relationships and collaboration in the workplace. She has helped clients in many industries build resilient and engaged workplaces, develop high trust/high accountability relationships, and solve workplace issues that get in the way of success and profitability. Charmaine is a Certified Virtual Presenter (eSpeakers).
Charmaine is a respected content creator, and is the Executive Producer of the award-winning Back Home Again movie. Back Home Again by screenwriter/director Michael Mankowski was inspired by community resiliency after one of the largest wildfire evacuations in Canadian history impacted the lives of more than 80,000 residents. Told through the eyes of the woodland creatures that inhabit the land of Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo, Back Home Again has an all-star voice cast, that aims to build mental health awareness and spark conversations in communities across Canada and around the world. Including Jeremy Renner, Martin Short, Kim Basinger, Eugene Levy, Norm Macdonald, Catherine O’Hara, Michael J. Fox, Howie Mandel, Lorne Cardinal, Gordon Pinsent, Mena Suvari, Bill Burr, Tom Green, Tantoo Cardinal, Marlon Wayans, Harland Williams, Sherri Shepherd, Scott Thompson, and Ed Asner. Watch the official trailer here: https://youtu.be/Gz-QJhm5uKI
Her corporate clients have included all 3 levels of government, oil and gas sector, trade associations and companies (health, nursing, engineering, safety, and more), technology businesses, human resources, community partnership departments, educational institutions, police/fire and rescue, non profit organizations and everything in between. She has presented to more than 500,000 people worldwide. Her extensive background in the corporate, small business and non profit worlds, her past role as a contract negotiation specialist for government, and a business owner, she has an interesting perspective of being on all sides of the collaboration table. She has owned several businesses over the past 25 years. Her career started out as a Correctional Officer, working in jails and young offender facilities. She then went back to school and was certified as a mediator, opening her first business in 1997, a dispute resolution and mediation firm. She facilitated the resolution of some of the most difficult community and workplace conflicts and has trained thousands of people on these skills. Charmaine developed workplace conflict management systems, continuing education certification program for mediators and developed programs to help unionized organizations and government navigate negotiations through an interest based model.
She has a Master's Degree in Conflict Management & Analysis is a bestselling author (of 5 books & featured in 6 others), and CSP™ Certified Speaking Professional. Charmaine has been featured in renowned publications such as Inc., Occupational Health & Safety Magazine, and many others, as well as having appeared as a guest on numerous TV and Radio Programs.
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Photo Credit: Gadbois Photography, 2021
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