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Residing in Toronto, Ontario, Shawna is the Executive Director of Dayforce Cares in Canada and the U.S. Additionally, Shawna is the Director of Dayforce HCM’s global Community Impact work.

Shawna strives to make a positive social impact in all that she does, and her experience reflects this with a focus on corporate grant-making, employee giving, volunteering, and fundraising. She has worked in corporate social responsibility with two of Canada’s largest banks, worked directly with several non-profits, and studied Corporate Citizenship at Boston College.

Shawna holds a degree in Psychology from York University as well as a diploma in Illustration from Sheridan College. Shawna has been a Director and Advisor for non-profit Boards in the Toronto area, and in her spare time she enjoys art, music, travel, and is an enthusiastic dog lover.

As a leader within the Solution Advisory team at Dayforce, Christine and her team work with mid-market clients and prospects across North America to help solve their Human Capital Management needs through the Dayforce application. Residing in Burlington Ontario, Christine joined Dayforce 19 years ago as an Inside Sales Representative in the call center. Christine has held various positions within the sales and advisory organization before moving in a leadership role. 

Christine holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Sydney (Australia) with a Major in Marketing & Sales. Prior to achieving her degree, Christine graduated from Mohawk College with a diploma in Business Administration. 

Before serving as Vice Chair on the Dayforce Cares Board of Directors, Christine was an active member of the Markham Chapter, actively assessing and approving grant applications. In her spare time, Christine enjoys skiing and golf, and spends much of her free time in arenas with her son for both hockey and lacrosse. Christine is also actively involved in her community, working with The Good Shepherd Center where she annually sponsors a family in their “Family Christmas Program”, and volunteering at the annual “Hockey Helps the Homeless” tournament.

Tavia Tolleson has been with Dayforce for 15 years predominantly focused on Field Effectiveness, Business Excellence and Strategic Initiative enablement. Prior to joining Dayforce, she was engaged in Corporate Training, Learning Management and Quality Programs. Tavia holds a Bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a Graduate Certificate from Concordia University (both in Education). 

At the time Dayforce was launched, Tavia was chair of the Montreal Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and was pleased to step into the role of Chair for the Montreal Dayforce Chapter. 

When not at work, Tavia has been a volunteer hike leader for the Montreal Chapter of the Alpine Club of Canada, has done peer mentoring for single parents to challenge themselves in the outdoors and has been an organizer of a single parent networking group offering resources and social outings for children and their parents.  She has also organized toy and winter clothing drives and participated in the Montreal-NY run raising funds for the Esprit de Corps Foundation.

 An outdoor enthusiast, she enjoys spending her free time outside and with family.

Mike has been practicing law for 20 years in both private practice and as in-house counsel. He has been with Dayforce for over 10 years in various roles, and is currently the Global Head of Partner Contracting.  

Mike has volunteered with West Coast Environmental Law, the Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce, and the Manitoba Marlins.

 Tamar Arje has been with Dayforce for over 5 years and currently holds the position of Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis. In her current role, Tamar is responsible for the budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis for the product development group. Prior to working at Dayforce, Tamar worked in audit at Deloitte where she obtained her CPA, CA designation.

 Tamar has a business degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. She currently resides in Toronto. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, and loves to travel.

Uma has spent the better part of her career working across sectors in social impact roles in Canada. Currently she serves as a Board member for two corporate foundations including Dayforce Cares and Randstad Canada Charitable Foundation helping align their corporate citizenship and social impact goals to their business objectives. Her previous roles include leading a national Canadian granting team under the TD Ready Commitment, leading strategy development for a community collective-impact approach focused on improving cradle-to-career population-level outcomes for children across Windsor-Essex, a Faculty Teacher at St. Clair College, leading social impact initiatives at BCG (Boston Consulting Group) and managing CIBC’s $8.5MM national employee giving campaign. 

Uma is a 2015 Association for Fundraising Professionals Diversity and Inclusion Fellow, a 2008 Ivey MBA graduate, and in 2010 received the Ivey Global Emerging Leader award in Community Advancement. 

Avinesh holds a position with Mackenzie Investments as the Assistant Vice-President of Internal Audit in Toronto. Avinesh started his career at Ernst & Young but has also held positions within Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and BMO Bank of Montreal.

 Avinesh hold a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Avinesh also holds a Canadian Chartered Accountant (CA), Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designations. He is also completing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of Toronto.

 Originally born in Trinidad and Tobago, Avinesh migrated to Canada with his parents at a young age. Avinesh now resides in Burlington, Ontario with his wife Andrea and daughter Nikki. Outside of work Avinesh is an avid baseball player, playing at the provincial, national and university levels. He also enjoys coaching baseball, golfing and attending sporting events.

Shelley Ng led Product Management at Dayforce for small business, managed services and tax solutions. She was a proven executive in product innovation, product management and development across Human Capital Management, Software and Financial Services industries.  Shelley graduated with honours from the University of Waterloo majoring in computer science with a business minor through Wilfred Laurier University.  

At Dayforce, Shelley was recognized as an influential leader in developing strategy, launching and growing new, innovative, profitable businesses and financial management. During her tenure at Dayforce, Shelley was an active volunteer with Dayforce Cares, leading the Markham Chapter. She retired from Dayforce in 2021 but remains active Director with Dayforce Cares Canada.

Franca has been in Technology, Customer Service and People Management for over 35 years, with 21 years at Bell Canada and 15 at Ceridian/Dayforce. In these roles Franca had the opportunity to design and deliver organizational strategies that drove success for the business, in partnership of employees and in the support of our customers and partners.  

With 35 years of continuous thoughtful change and real transformation, Franca eagerly embraced each opportunity to usher in new and exciting initiatives, together with employees and customers of different countries and cultures. Over the last 4 to 5 years at Dayforce, global integration was a pivotal task on her agenda. Despite its challenges, the endeavor proved remarkably fulfilling and successful for everyone involved. 

Born in Italy and raised in Quebec, Franca has two children and is a proud grandmother of 6 grandkids. As an eternal learner, she obtained a masters degree at 50. Franca now plans to share these learnings with students, and mentor young women.