They looked…they found and Ottawa Life Magazine’s Evert Akkerman is one of them! Huge congrats for making the Canadian HR Reporter’s Top 25 Human Resources Practitioners in Canada.
Born and raised in Holland, Evert Akkerman, HR consultant at XNL HR in Newmarket, Ont., went on to obtain his CHRP designation in Canada and worked as an HR manager for eight years. He started his own consulting practice in 2012 and in 2014-15, served as interim director of HR at Habitat for Humanity GTA after amalgamation, organizing a road show with the CEO to visit employee locations and discuss harmonized HR policies. He also helped York Region with updating its job descriptions for transportation, leading to a larger project at the organization. And in 2016, he helped Toronto-based Fleet Complete with the challenging search for a new vice-president of sales for Holland.
