Dr. Tim's On-Line Profile

Connecting people with their jobs
Jobs with their organizational goals
Organizations with their communities

My career started when I first brought Human Resources tools out of the academic and in to applied settings. I have a firm belief that learning and improvement must take their place in new environments with better tools, not with "Gee Whiz" elements. From 1982 to , I have been answering the call to solve human resources problems -- from HR best practices to quality and production to community engagement and responsibility.

As a parent, I've built educational Web pages for my children and school children. As an consulting Industrial and Organizational Psychologist, I have developed a number of computer-based firsts in Canada that build on using the Internet collaboratively, including:

• Canada's first computer-based WHMIS training program
• A set of personnel selection and assessment tools
• Career development and outplacement tools
• On-line training tools
• As a part-time educator, I have brought forward-thinking to the classroom.
• As someone with a strong operations and production philosophy, I understand that the development of "better" is not haphazard -- it builds on a team moving along the same path.

All of these views have shared a "work smarter, not harder" theme.
There are fascinating changes in Human Resources practices,
Web-based events, computer-based applications and learning, in
particular are all fascinating. They can be also built to reinforce
the "every day get better" Kaizen attitude.

I have been lucky in my career to date. I have never advertised nor had to seek a project. People came forward with problems to solve. From this fortunate set of circumstances, I have had the opportunity to work with a number of the world's organizations - both in educational and applied settings. During my teaching years, I consulted in Canada and taught during the eight-month academic year. During the four-month break, I consulted and taught in the Far East. I dealt with a number of organizations and earned the participation of many firms in the writing of "Understanding the Management Practices of the Pacific Rim" and its subsequent editions. I saw the changes that had impacted Canada and how the ripples of these changes spread across the world. Education and applied work settings, in particular, have faced the largest changes.

I have been fortunate to have exciting conversations with a range of partners who are reacting to change and looking for higher expectations for their own success.

I look forward to continuing this conversation, and remain,

Yours truly,


Timothy D. Hill, Ph.D.