A strategic human resources leader & leadership coach with over 25 years of bringing people-focused solutions to the most niggly business challenges to achieve results. With experience across the spectrum of HR practices, David’s specialities include:  talent management, executive coaching, process improvement, organizational change and transformation and leadership development.

Dave cofounded “get keep grow inc” a  Canadian employee engagement and retention professional services corporation.




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David McLean

McLean & Company's new HR Trends report is live and shows some significant shifts in HR and organizational priorities for the coming year:

✅ Innovation jumped from #10 in 2025 to #2 in 2026—HR is now a key driver of transformation.
✅ Leadership development remains the top priority, but the focus is expanding to employee experience and AI adoption.
✅ HR is moving from reactive support to strategic leadership, shaping culture and enabling change.
📌 Bottom line: HR leaders must embrace innovation, tech, and cross-functional collaboration to stay ahead.



✴️✴️✴️ If you're interested in accessing the report, there is a link in the comments box below 


Acknowledgement: McLean & Company  


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Dr. Nora Gold

Dr. Nora Gold is an editor, former professor, and the author of three books of fiction. The first, Marrow and Other Stories, won a Canadian Jewish Book Award and was praised by Alice Munro. Fields of Exile won the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award and praise from both Cynthia Ozick and Irwin Cotler. Gold’s most recent book, The Dead Man, received glowing reviews, including from the Los Angeles Review of Books, and won a Canada Council translation grant, resulting in The Dead Man being published in Hebrew. An excerpt of this novel was also translated into Hungarian and appeared in a prominent literary journal in Hungary. 

Gold, at one time a social worker and a tenured social work professor, was also, for six years, the Writer-in-Residence at the Centre for Women’s Studies at OISE/University of Toronto. In addition, she is the founder and editor-in-chief of Jewish Fiction .net (www.jewishfiction.net), a prestigious online literary journal that publishes first-rate Jewish-themed fiction from around the world, either written in English or translated into English from 18 languages. To date, Jewish Fiction .net has published 500 works of fiction that were never before published in English, including fiction by eminent authors like Elie Wiesel. Jewish Fiction .net has readers in 140 countries. For more details about Dr. Gold, visit www.noragold.com.

Dr. Gold posts daily on LinkedIn. Join her 33,000 followers to read her thoughtful, well-informed infographic-based posts.

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