Brendon Bernard is a Senior Economist at Indeed.com, based in Toronto. He has been the Canadian lead of the Indeed Hiring Lab since 2018, combining publicly available data with the wealth of information internal to the Indeed hiring platform to make sense of the Canadian labour market. Brendon was previously an economist with Finance Canada, analyzing the U.S. economy, and developing Canadian financial sector policy. He holds a Master’s in Economics from the Vancouver School of Economics at University of British Columbia.

Élise leads the Talent Intelligence function for Indeed Canada. She consults with large businesses across Canada, offering best practices, thought leadership and insightful data analysis. Originally from Québec and now living on a farm in Alberta, she is fluently bilingual and understands the Canadian employment landscape and the subtleties of the workforce from one province to another.

Élise is also a two-time Olympian in the sport of Artistic swimming and has won over 20 titles at the Canadian National Championship. She brings her love for high performance, dedicated work ethic, and energy that one needs to be a successful Olympic athlete into her current work as a storyteller and a facilitator for professional audiences in English or in French. She is a mother of two and she also runs a small real estate business with her husband in Calgary. She is an ambassador working to keep young women engaged in sports and to help Olympic and Paralympic Athletes successfully transition from sports into the world of work.