About Us

Laird & Greer is a management consulting firm focused on the selection of application software and associated activities in the functional areas of Human Resources, Payroll, and Time and Attendance Management.

Our roots are in people management: human resources, payroll, human resource information management systems (HRIS/HRMS), and time and attendance.
We provide you with integrated end-to-end critical business processes that directly support your business needs. We are your "one stop shop" for all your human resources consulting needs, whether they are technical, functional, or focused on software selection.

Why work with us? We're a small company, and that's good. Each consultant is experienced and skilled; we don't staff your project with trainees, and we are able to keep our administration costs very low, and pass on those savings through better rates. To provide for special expertise we also form partnerships with other companies in order to provide the highest quality service. In those circumstances we continue to manage your project so that we can meet your business goals.

We have worked with organizations as small as a few hundred employees, to those with over 60,000 employees in Canada and the United States, in both the private and public sectors (See "Clients"). Many of our clients have a workforce outside of North America, and we understand that environment.
Best of all….."We make it happen!"

About Ian Turnbull

Ian Turnbull is the founder and Managing Partner of Laird & Greer Management Consultants. Ian’s extensive background includes:

• Certified Human Resource Professional, Human Resource Professionals of Ontario (HRPAO)
• Director, Human Resource Management Systems Professionals (HRMSP)
• Director, Human Resources Professionals Association of York Region (HRPYR)
• Director, The Canadian Privacy Institute
• Member, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• Past-chair of the International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM)
• Director, the Workforce Privacy Network (WPN)
• Past-chair of the Canadian Council of Human Resource Associations (CCHRA)
• 2002 recipient of The President’s Award from the International Public Management Association of Canada (IPMA) for making an outstanding contribution to the practice of human resources management in Canada.

In addition to the two books he has co-authored on HRMS (the latest being: Human Resources Management Systems: A Practical Approach), he was Editor of: Privacy in the Workplace - An Employment Perspective about data privacy and security for The Canadian Privacy Institute, and the 2004 CHRP National Knowledge Exam Study Guide published by Canadian HR Press.

He has taught the practical application of HRMS at the Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto, is a frequent speaker at human resources, payroll and general management conferences in North America and abroad and regularly contributes articles on a wide variety of human resource management issues.