Sharon (she/her) is a Mediator, Trainer and Consultant at Strategic Workplace: Equity and Conflict Resolution Solutions. She provides mediation, workplace restoration, workplace assessments, training and other supports to a wide range of workplaces. Sharon has 15 years of experience in labour, employment and human rights as both a practicing lawyer and a mediator. She has mediated close to a thousand disputes, including many multi-party and extremely complex, high-profile cases.

Sharon gained her expertise in workplace issues (labour, employment, and human rights) when she began her career in private practice for a prominent union-side labour law firm in Toronto. Following that, she went in-house at a major public service union as a litigator. She then spent many years as a Senior Mediator at the Ontario Labour Relations Board. After working as a mediator, Sharon returned to private legal practice as a Workplace Investigator, conducting numerous complex investigations, as well as mediations, workplace restorations, and workplace assessments.

Sharon’s goal is to incorporate anti-oppressive, anti-racist, anti-hierarchical, and trauma-informed principles into all of the work that she does. She is deeply passionate about the power that mediation and mediation-related processes have to transform workplaces and conflicts, and the as-yet untapped potential of mediation if applied in a wider variety of contexts.

Sharon was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2011 after obtaining her J.D. from Western Law in 2010. She interned at the International Labour Organization in Geneva and led both the Diversity Committee and Labour Law Society.  Sharon holds an Executive Certificate in Conflict Management, and Certificates in Transformative Mediation and Advanced Workplace Restoration. She is a designated Workplace Fairness Assessor, a member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario, and a member of the Ontario Bar Association (Labour and Employment and ADR sections), CBA, ADRIO and ADRIC. Sharon is also the Co-Founder of the Women’s Indo-Caribbean Entrepreneurial Group. Sharon is also a Volunteer Roster Mediator with The Neighbourhood Group (formerly St. Stephen's Community House) and a Coach for York University's Certificate in Dispute Resolution program at their School of Continuing Studies.

Sharon provides the following services:

• Mediation
• Facilitation
• Workplace Assessments
• Workplace Training
• Workplace Investigation Consultations
• Presentations and Workshops
• Research and Writing
• Sensitivity Reading