Saskatoon Luncheon: How One Organization Is Moving the Bar on Employee Engagement

The Saskatchewan Healthcare Employees’ Pension Plan is a jointly trusteed defined benefit pension plan serving over 54,000 members across Saskatchewan. Creating a culture that supports, encourages and empowers employees to do their best work is very important not only for the leadership team at SHEPP but for the Board of Trustees as well. The underlying belief at the heart of SHEPP’s corporate culture is the understanding that employees are the source of the organization’s success. One of the ways SHEPP measures its ability to support its employees is through employee engagement surveys. In the last six years, SHEPP has participated in three engagement surveys. This presentation will provide high level engagement results and outline how SHEPP has developed and implemented people practices that not only support employee engagement but have increased it through a variety of organizational changes.

Kelley Orban is the Senior Director of Stakeholder Relations at the Saskatchewan Healthcare Employees’ Pension Plan (SHEPP). She has spent most of her corporate career developing strategies and initiatives around engaging customers, employees and other important internal and external stakeholders. Understanding how people think and why they make the choices they do is an important part of designing effective internal and external communications. As a professional ‘people watcher’, Kelley has designed and implemented a variety of effective marketing, branding, communication and people practices and programs. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree and Masters of Business Administration from the University of Regina.