Our Founder

Meet Vanessa Gerard – Our Founder, CEO & Human Resource Consultant…

Vanessa is a proud Metis entrepreneur and human resource consultant. She specializes in working with metis and indigenous small businesses in Saskatchewan. She found a way to fulfil her passion of helping people by developing a career and business dedicated to providing critical HR support for small businesses. She has 8 years of combined experience in Human Resources and Business Administration. Vanessa graduated from the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology with a diploma in Human Resource Management as well as Praxis School of Entrepreneurship where she earned a certificate in Small Business Development. She is a certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator instructor, a certified Management Coach Program Facilitator, and a certified Leadership Coach. She is also an Advisor for WESK’s All Access Expert Advice Panel that assists women entrepreneurs succeed in business.

As the CEO and Senior Consultant at Trusted HR Solutions, she is passionate about supporting small business and entrepreneurship – not only in the Saskatchewan business community, but also in the metis and indigenous business sector as well. She actively contributes her ideas and opinions to metis and indigenous economic development and plans to continue doing so in the future as she gains more insight from working with the community and its members.

Trusted HR Solutions was built purely from hard work, perseverance, and passion. Vanessa poured her entire being into developing Trusted HR Solutions from the ground up and she made sure that her business has strong values. She is proud to tell the other entrepreneurs about the barriers she overcame when starting a career in business and how she overcame them as an indigenous female.

“If you are someone like me, someone who has faced barrier after barrier in business – You can and will be successful. To do that, you only need three things: determination, perseverance. but most of all, what you need is PASSION.”

Vanessa Gerard, Trusted HR Solution’s Founder & CEO