Louise Taylor Green

Louise Taylor Green, culture & HR expert, transformation specialist and inclusion champion, was appointed to the Toronto Metropolitan University board of Governors on June 15, 2023, for three years.

Louise's career is distinguished by her legacy of building trusting, ethical, high-performing teams in a broad range of industry sectors at all stages of the business lifecycle. Louise retired as CEO, Corporate Secretary & Director of the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA), Ontario's regulator of the HR profession, in 2022. Prior to this role, Louise was SVP & CHRO of Economical Insurance where she led HR, organizational change management and organizational development during a time of radical, industry-leading innovation and unprecedented growth & change. Louise served as the EVP Corporate Affairs, CHRO & Chief Strategy Officer for Hamilton Health Sciences, one of Canada's most comprehensive healthcare providers and research entities. She worked in cooperative financial services as both the VP of Retail Banking & Wealth Management and the VP HR/LR. Louise's early career experiences at start-up Canada 3000 Airlines, anchored her commitment to unlock human potential as she grew her own career from the 'backroom to the boardroom' having started on the front-line and ultimately ascending to the CHRO role.

Louise is a regulated HR professional, holding the CHRP, CHRL, and CHRE designations. She is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), a professional certified coach with ICF (PCC), and a certified board director (ICD.D.). She has a Certificate in Human Resources Management from McMaster, an MBA from Athabasca University, and a Comprehensive Evidence-based Coaching Certification from Fielding Graduate University. She is a certified Red Team Practitioner and earned her Balanced Scorecard Certification (XPP) from Harvard & Palladium. Recently, Louise completed a Certificate program in AI and Business Strategy from MIT Sloan & MIT CSAIL.

Louise has extensive Board experience having served as the Chair of the Hamilton Health Sciences Volunteer Association Board as well as serving on numerous other not-for-profit boards as an HRCC Chair, Governance Co-Chair, CEO Search Committee Chair, Audit & Finance Committee member and special pension committee member. She sits on the Blu Ivy Advisory Board and is a public-member (elect) of the CADTH Board of Directors. Louise champions disability inclusion and volunteers as a member of the national executive steering committee of NIDMAR (the National Institute for Disability Management and Research).