Caliber is a collection of globally experienced business people with a reputation for creating powerful organizations. We have created a uniquely effective consulting approach by building a highly collaborative team with complementary skills. When you engage Caliber you are not relying on the insight of one key individual - you are accessing the combined knowledge, experience and application of our entire team. It is because we have both depth and breadth and the collaboration to leverage this knowledge that we have been so successful in enabling our clients to become powerful organizations. To find out more about our team please read the short biographies below.






Heather Hilliard
Principal



Heather is the Principal of Caliber and has more than 15 years of experience working with companies in the areas of organizational development and change, leadership development, reward systems and performance management.

Heather's specialties include developing reward and performance strategies for organizations undergoing change, helping clients to decide which approaches best align with and support business strategy and organizational values. She works with clients to develop plans and processes that optimize the return on human resource investment and that serve to focus work behaviour on value-added business results. In addition, Heather has extensive experience working with organizations to develop leadership and employee capabilities and create a culture that supports organizational success.

Prior to starting Caliber, Heather spent five years with an international HR consulting firm, where she was a Partner and Team Leader of the Performance and Rewards practice for the Vancouver office. She also spent three years in compensation and human resources for a national communications company.

Heather holds a Bachelor's Degree in Honors Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario. She is a Certified Compensation Practitioner (CCP) and a Certified Human Resources Practitioner (CHRP). She is a past member of the Board for the BC Human Resources Management Association, and is a frequent speaker on compensation, performance management, and leadership issues.

Heather Claridge
Lead Consultant

Lead Consultant Heather Claridge strengthens the Caliber team with over 20 years global HR experience, including senior management and executive level HR roles with Motorola, Pivotal Corporation and Blast Radius.

Heather is valued by CEOs for her strategic, systems view of what drives an organization’s performance. She has a strong track record in helping companies to successfully execute on their strategic plans by defining the organizational capabilities required, then assessing the degree to which these capabilities exist within an organization and finally by building the supporting HR infrastructure, systems and practices to enhance the organizational capabilities required to drive superior business performance. 

Heather has deep expertise related to growing and transforming organizations — having created scalable infrastructures to support and sustain growth, developed change management practices in support of an IPO process, integrated mergers and acquisitions, and implemented HR strategies that maximize the bottom line business impact as well as the return on investment. Experience developing and implementing integrated talent management systems including leadership, succession and career management rounds out her skill set.

Heather holds an MA in Organization Design and Effectiveness from Fielding University in Santa Barbara, CA. She is also a certified Human Resources Practitioner (CHRP). Since 1988, Heather has been a prominent member of British Columbia’s high technology HR community. A founding member of the Technology Industry Association’s HR Technology Group, she has also volunteered her time for BCHRMA, various speaking engagements and as an account executive for the annual United Way Campaign.

Anne Dranitsaris                                     
Associate Consultant



Anne is an Associate with Caliber, based in Toronto. With more than twenty years experience in business, leadership and employee development, Anne works with individuals and organizations, to design and implement assessment and development processes to increase their understanding of how personal dynamics impact upon interpersonal, team and organizational effectiveness. She conducts interventions and mediation for clients who are experiencing business challenges as a result of conflict within primary relationships (partners, leadership groups, teams, boards, etc.).

Anne is excited by the challenges that working with interpersonal dynamics bring and by opportunities to bring new concepts and theory into practice to facilitate the growth of people toward their potential. She is an innovator, who likes to push the envelope and do things that haven't been done before.

Anne holds a Master's Degree in Therapeutic Counselling and is a graduate of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy and studied at the Masterson Institute for Disorders of the Self (New York). She attended Ryerson University and the Institute for Management Training for organizational development and management studies. Anne has also completed certificate programs in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Alternate Dispute Resolution. She is certified to administer a number of assessment instruments including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, BarOn EQ-i (Emotional Intelligence Indicator) and Thomas Kilmann (Conflict Styles).