Biography

Education

• Graduate diploma in management, McGill University (1985)
• Bachelor’s degree in behavioural psychology, McGill University (1981)
• Diploma of College Studies in psychology, Cégep Marie-Victorin (1978)

Professional Experience

• Founder and director, Carrefour jeunesse-emploi de Laval (1997-2015)
• Founder and president, Personnel Métro (1987-1996)

Community and Political Involvement

• Candidate for Fabre in the by-election held in November 2015
• Member of the management committee of Réussite Laval (2010-2015)
• Member of the national monitoring committee L’école, j’y tiens (2009-2010)
• President of the Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec (2007-2015)
• Chair of the Laval regional council of labour market partners (2003-2015)
• Administrator of the Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec (1998-2015)
• Guide for 40,000 young people from Laval, in collaboration with Carrefour jeunesse-emploi de Laval, to increase the success rate for the socio-professional integration of young people in employment or at school (since 1997)
• Regional director for Montréal of the Réseau des Femmes d’affaires du Québec (1993-1995)
• Founder and administrator of the Fondation du Carrefour jeunesse-emploi de Laval
• Administrator of the Corporation de développement communautaire de Laval
• Administrator of the Laval regional board of health and social services
• President and administrator of Rond-point jeunesse au travail, now Carrefour jeunesse-emploi – CJE Bourassa-Sauvé
• Administrator of Epoc-Montréal (career counselling service – training and social reinsertion programs)
• Member of the governing board of the Centre de formation professionnelle Paul-Émile-Dufresne
• Member of Forum national et régional des ressources internes d’Emploi-Québec
• Member of the Emploi-Québec and Réseau des carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec joint committee
• Founding member of the committees on the correlation between training and employment, which support the immigrant clientele within the Laval regional council of labour market partners
• Participating member of the Réseau des Femmes d’affaires du Québec and partner in the creation of the network’s eastern Montréal chapter to substantially increase the number of members in that area