· March 2010: Alison Sargent nominated for the Mercer Vision Award for Human Resources Innovation - for client work at Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies.

· January 2010: Tim McConnell delivered a session on "Compensation 101" at the HR Professionals Association Annual Conference in Toronto.

· December 2009: Tim McConnell chaired the INFONEX public sector HR event in Ottawa: Innovative Techniques for Improved HR Management.

· November 2009: Tim McConnell spoke on Succession Planning at HRPA Ottawa's Professional-Development-In-A-Box seminar.

· October 2009: Tim McConnell was the featured speaker on HR Strategy at the 2009 Canadian Conference of The Law Office Management Association (TLOMA), Niagara-on-the-Lake.

· October 2009: McConnell HRC announced as Finalist in the Professional Services (firm) of the Year category of the 2009 Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement Awards.

· June 2009: McConnell HRC completes two major Competency Profile projects - for Accreditation Canada and the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

· June 2009: McConnell HRC completes a complex Functional Organizational Re-Design for Canada’s National Science Library, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) at the National Research Council (NRC).

· May 2009: Kathy Bedard becomes President-elect of the Ottawa Chapter of the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA).

· May 2009: “Top Ten Mistakes in HR Management” published in Update; the magazine of the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA), Ottawa Chapter.

· November 2008: Tim McConnell lectures on Compensation Strategy at the University of Ottawa, Telfer School of Management, Advanced Program in Human Resources Management (APHRM).

· October 2008: Tim McConnell delivers a national Webinar on behalf of CCH Ltd. “Jump Start Your HR Strategy: How to Evaluate, Improve and Communicate a Winning HR Strategy”. Evaluated by participants as the top ranked webinar ever offered by CCH.

· June 2008: Tim McConnell delivers a Key Note Address on “Why HR” to the 2008 National HR Conference of IPMA Canada, the International Personnel Management Association, in Edmonton.

· April 2008: “Why HR?” McConnell HRC article published in magazine of the Saskatchewan Association of Human Resources Professionals (SAHRP), Regina.

· February 2008: McConnell HRC article published in CMA Management Magazine (Toronto). “Practical Approaches to Organization Design”, by Tim McConnell and Alison Sargent.