I support you in revealing individual and collective potential
Stella Riggi, CRHA
A strategic and multi-skilled manager, bilingual human resources trainer, specializing in:
- DEI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (lead DEI trainier for the Ordre des CRHA official program)
- Collective Intelligence: facilitation, co-development, Design Thinking, and Hackathons
- HR Advice: Attracting and recruiting top candidates for leadership positions and assisting organizations in improving efficiency
DEI: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Creating a fairer society and representative organizations through sustainable strategies, including training, governance, action plans, practical guides, policies, and processes.
- Assess intercultural competence using the psychometric tool IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory) and identify the mindset and paradigms that shape how differences are approached
Collective intelligence
- Facilitating and organizing workshops to reflect methodically, exploring blind spots to drive innovation
- Organizing solidarity-driven Hackathons to life using Design Thinking to find solutions and tackle challenges as a team
HR advices
- Achieving goals and priorities through an informed HR vision
- Attracting and recruiting top candidates for leadership positions and supporting organizations for greater efficiency
Key projects completed
- Organizer, lead coach, and facilitator for over 20 Hackathons (collective intelligence seminars where participants work in teams on a solidarity-driven challenge) both within and between companies, in Quebec and internationally, using Design Thinking
- Coach and trainer for the new collective intelligence program: “Big Bloom Academy“
- Organization of onboarding seminars for new employees
- Ordre des CRHA : lead trainer and content expert for the new EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) skills development program up to 2026
- Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) : psychometric tool and coaching for feedback on results (over 200)
- Union des municipalités du Québec (UMQ) : development of a practical guide on cultural diversity in the municipal sector
- Germain Hotels : training for the executive team using the IDI tool and on-site training outside the province
- Palais des Congrès de Montréal : training for the executive team with the IDI tool and submitted action plan
- Over 50 DEI trainings delivered across various sectors
- MRC de Joliette: speaker at the Mission Inclusion conference
- Via Rail Canada: analysis of practices and DEI policy
- Mouvement Desjardins: team support, training analysis, and workshop facilitation
- Maison Théâtre: Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Ordre des CRHA
- Ville de Gatineau
- Conseil du trésor du Québec
- Théâtre Bouches Décousues
- Cinars
- Ballets Jazz Montréal
- Montréal pediatric research foundation
- Coaching for frontline managers
- Development of an inclusive governance guide for a group of art gallery owners
- Development of an inclusive recruitment process for the group of psychiatrists at the CIUSS de l’Est de Montréal
- Support for HR management for Coesio: a sustainable development consulting firm
- Executive recruitment in collaboration with Electi
Helping you move from intention to action
An engaged manager in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), I am a catalyst for change in Human Resources. Graduate in Industrial Relations and member of the Ordre des CRHA, I combine coaching, facilitation, and collective intelligence to create inclusive learning environments. With over 30 years of strategic experience, including work with an international accounting firm and a federal Crown corporation, I now energetically operate as an entrepreneur specializing in EDI, training, and co-development.
As the leader of the Big Bloom collective for Quebec, I organize collective intelligence seminars where participants work in teams on solidarity-driven challenges focused on social innovation.
My conviction in the unique value of each individual fuels my passion for EDI. As the daughter of a first-generation Italian father who dedicated his career to cultural communities and as a mother raising two young girls of Chinese origin, I strive to be vigilant against unconscious biases and prejudices and am actively interested in neurodiversity.
An esteemed contributor, expert, and passionate advocate, I seek the authenticity needed to guide organizations toward an inclusive and equitable future. I partner with clients who share this vision and sincere commitment to positive transformation.
Collaborations
Certifications
Method
Plan
Align
Develop
Implement
Plan
Good planning is giving yourself a solid roadmap to materialise your next steps. This allows us to define our path and what we want to discover on the way.
It lets us trust the process.
Align
This step is the key junction where creativity turns into concrete proposals. We compare, analyze and think outside the box.
Rigour and respect for processes remain the cornerstones to properly frame ideas by circumventing unconscious biases.
Develop
This step is the key junction where creativity turns into concrete proposals. We compare, analyze and think outside the box.
Rigour and respect for processes remain the cornerstones to properly frame ideas by circumventing unconscious biases.
Implement
It is the time to frame actions, to test, to launch initiatives and to monitor results.
A post-mortem evaluation is carried out to learn lessons and adjust in due course.
Testimonials
Stella a accompagné le Théâtre Bouches Décousues dans un transfert de direction générale, une transition importante puisque le fondateur de la compagnie quittait le poste qu'il occupait depuis 35 ans. La rigueur du processus proposé par Stella, combiné à la bienveillance de son approche nous ont permis de mettre en place les conditions gagnantes pour opérer cette transition de manière harmonieuse. Nous sommes rapidement contaminés par l'énergie positive et la détermination de Stella.
Je travaille avec Stella depuis plusieurs années et je ne peux que la recommander les yeux fermés ! Nous collaborons sur le projet Big Bloom, qui développe l'intelligence collective au service de l'innovation sociale. Stella développe Montréal et son travail est incroyable et génère un impact concret sur son territoire. Stella peut tout faire : direction de projet, facilitation, animation, accompagnement sur des sujets de diversité et coachings, à l'international, en français comme en anglais. À chaque fois, c'est une grande réussite, grâce à son professionnalisme hors pair.
J'ai de la chance d'avoir Stella pour nous accompagner dans le cadre de ma succession à titre de fondateur de CINARS. le CA et moi-même sommes rassurés par sa démarche rigoureuse et son écoute. Elle prend le temps de connaître nos spécificités pour que cela se reflète dans le plan de travail. Aussi, nous avons beaucoup de plaisir à travailler ensemble
I had the pleasure to work with Stella on different mandates related to Diversity & Inclusion at VIA Rail. Stella is diligent about collecting information and connecting with stakeholders before starting her analysis. Her recommendations, feedback and deliverables are impeccable and she’s always ready to challenge status quo situations and brings new perspectives and best practices to drive change. She dedicates time to get to know her clients, their realities and what works best for them.
Stella est une partenaire d’affaires privilégiée et ma précieuse collaboratrice dans les processus de sélection que je fais pour mes clients pour les recrutements de postes de direction générale dans le milieu des OBNL. Son large coffre à outils comme généraliste en ressources humaines, sa certification en coaching, sa connaissance fine du milieu institutionnel et son expertise innovante en diversité, équité et inclusion apportent une belle valeur ajoutée aux processus de sélection que nous réalisons ensemble pour nos clients.
J’ai travaillé avec Stella dans les derniers mois sur les sujets de l’Équité, la diversité et l’inclusion et j’ai beaucoup apprécié son écoute, son ouverture et son dynamisme. Elle a de plus, développé et animé une formation chez nous, et j’ai à la fois apprécié la qualité du contenu présenté, mais également la façon dont elle a animé la formation soit avec brio.
