RT Workplace Training & Consulting Inc. helps organizations build stronger, healthier workplaces through workplace training programs and consulting across Canada.

Grounded in extensive experience in employment and labour law, human rights law, workplace investigations, workplace assessments, and policy review, our team brings real-world insight into every training session and consulting project. Our passion is helping organizations proactively prevent workplace issues before they escalate, while also equipping workplace investigators with the skills to conduct fair, effective investigations that reduce risk and protect organizational reputation.

Our Training Programs

Our Workplace Investigation Training suite equips HR and other professionals at any level with the skills, confidence and practical frameworks to conduct fair and thorough workplace investigations. Through structured methodology, real-world scenarios and facilitated exercises with professional actors, participants learn to manage complaints, assess evidence, conduct interviews and handle complex or sensitive situations with professionalism and care.

Our Respectful Workplace Training suite focuses on preventing harassment, discrimination, and toxic behaviours, helping organizations build inclusive, respectful, and productive workplace cultures. This training is designed for all levels of an organization, from executives and boards to managers, leaders, and employees.

The result is teams that think critically, act confidently, and contribute to stronger, more resilient organizations.

Why Choose RT Workplace Training & Consulting Inc.?

Our training supports workplaces in building internal capacity, strengthening investigation practices, and translating policy into day-to-day workplace behaviour. We translate what we have learned from our real-world experiences into practical, high-impact training for both workplace investigators and organizations. Drawing on firsthand insight into workplace conflict, misconduct, and culture breakdowns, our training focuses on how issues arise in practice and what it takes to address them effectively. Through realistic scenarios, actor-simulated role play, and guided discussion, we help participants move from policy to practice, building the skills and confidence to identify, address, and prevent workplace misconduct before it escalates.

Our consulting work also supports healthy workplaces through reviews, assessments and guidance on investigations, as well as special projects, all designed to help organizations identify and address workplace issues as soon as possible.

Our Leadership

Christine Thomlinson and Cory Boyd are highly accomplished lawyers and workplace investigators with a shared commitment to helping organizations create and/or restore healthy workplaces. They lead the majority of our training programs and work directly with clients to advise on complex workplace investigations, conduct reviews and assessments, review workplace policies, and provide strategic guidance on issues such as discrimination, harassment, bullying, human rights matters, microaggressions, and other forms of workplace misconduct.

Christine Thomlinson, President

With over 30 years of experience, she is considered a leading authority in workplace harassment, workplace investigations, and workplace reviews. Christine is renowned for her knowledge, strategic and innovative thinking, and ability to provide solutions to challenging workplace issues. Christine spearheads and develops our extensive training modules and ensures the curriculum remains relevant, practical, and grounded in real-world experience. She has a gift for exploring creative solutions, enabling her to help others look at issues objectively and explain things in a way that people better understand. This approach informs the design and delivery of training that is thoughtful, accessible, and impactful.

Christine can regularly be found on Lexpert’s Best Lawyers list and appears in Lexpert directories, including the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. She was awarded the Lexpert Zenith Award for her contributions to Diversity and Inclusion in the legal profession (2016) and is also a recipient of the Randall Echlin Award for Excellence in Labour and Employment Law (2025), recognizing exceptional contributions to the field and a strong commitment to mentorship. Christine is also renowned for her leading texts on both workplace investigations and employment law. In 2006, she co-authored Human Resources Guide to Workplace Investigations, now in its second edition. She also co-authored with the late Mr. Justice Randall Scott Echlin, For Better or For Worse: A Practical Guide to Canadian Employment Law, currently in its third edition. Together, these texts serve as essential resources for professionals and students across Canada.

Cory Boyd, Vice President

With over 25 years of experience in both the public and private sector, he is a highly accomplished workplace investigator, consultant, and trainer. His fair, analytical approach adapts to the characteristics of every workplace he encounters, respecting each client’s unique workplace culture while bringing his knowledge and expertise to help tackle workplace challenges. Cory assists employers in developing systems to ensure compliance with legal and ethical obligations through assessment processes, and he works with clients to identify individual and systemic issues within the organization, with the end goal of creating healthy and respectful workplaces. Moreover, as a trusted authority on addressing workplace issues, Cory often presents at conferences and writes on workplace investigations, bullying and harassment, human rights developments, and has been recognized by his peers in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada^TM. Cory also continues to advance his professional knowledge, having completed a Graduate Certificate in Organization Design and Development at Royal Roads University, a Certificate in Conflict Management and Mediation from Conrad Grebel University College, and the Authentic Leader Development program at the Harvard Business School Executive Education.