Liberating Potential: Requisite Organization in the Life of a VP of Human Resources

Speaker A My name is Rich Morgan and let me tell you just a little bit about my career and particularly my career in HR. And probably the most important part of that would be my my career as the role I had as vice President of Human resources. And it's an interesting story. Let me take it back a bit. I know a number of you are interested in Requisite organization. My first level two role in HR, I was 26 years old. I was the training manager at that time for Alberta Division, and I progressed in the bank of Montreal, mainly within Western Canada. I guess my first level three role, I was the HR manager for Western Canada, training manager for Western Canada all along. In this career, I was hoping to get transferred to Toronto, to the corporate head office, to where the excitement was. So after having waited so long to be transferred to Toronto, to the corporate head office, I had the most painful experience of moving from a low four role in Western Canada with a bank to at best a low two role in Toronto. I simply couldn't stand it. It was a very short period of time. I left, I had to leave. I was just so terribly frustrated. The bureaucracy was painful. Anyway, that was after 20 some OD years. Happy years, happy career years in the bank. I then went and was recruited by Canadian Tire Financial Services as the VPHR. This was my first role, having control of all of HR. It was wonderful, really felt in the flow. The organization had recently gone through a reorganization using the principles of Requisite organization. It was my first experience in Requisite and it changed my life at the time I was assessed. And this is where I went through a first career path appreciation by a wonderful man by the name of Carlos Rigby. And interestingly enough, the assessment also included my wife. My wife that time, I guess, of 20 years. Frankly, the whole experience changed my life. I could fully appreciate where I was, how I felt, the way I felt, and frankly, it saved our marriage because my wife also better understood that I had recently gone through a stratum change and I was changed a changed person so she could understand it. So it was a wonderful experience. That was my first experience with Requisite, was having a CPA done the role there at Canadian Tire Financial Services. For the first time, I felt more like a general manager. The executive team was truly a cohesive team and we related incredibly well. The experience with Joss Wintermans was probably the best of my life. He was a wonderful leader who truly allowed his executive team because he understood Requisite organization to be the best they could be. And as a team we truly worked well together. It was quite remarkable and it was a blast. An awful lot of fun. So after six wonderful years at canadian Tire. I truly felt, and I guess I perhaps went through another stratum level, I needed another change. And that change, frankly, was when I started my own consulting business. I needed to run my own business. I always wanted to, and this was my opportunity. Learned very quickly in consulting that on one's own, you don't very often get the type of challenging assignments that you would like. I was fortunate enough to meet Paul Tremlet, and we formed a wonderful company, Core International, and we were able to then, because of size and scope, get involved in more exciting, challenging, larger consulting assignments. And over the last ten years of consulting for many clients, primarily in Canada, I guess my career curve said I would now be operating at the mid to high five range. In retrospect, looking then at my career through requisite organization lenses, I can truly say that it fundamentally changed my life. It is frankly quite liberating to know where you are in your career path, to know when you're frustrated as hell that it's not your fault that often it's a system that's creating your frustration. So, in retrospect, requisite organization has changed my life in a very positive way.