Greater Toronto's Top Employers (2026) Magazine - Magazine - Page 63
( 2026 )
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mental health
practitioner benefit
52
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leave top-up pay
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scholarship program for
employees’ children
hit, and Rau found herself having
to convert the whole school to
online learning.
In 2021, she was asked to take
over the project management for
George Brown’s much-praised
Limberlost Place: a 10-storey,
Nerys Rau, executive director of facilities and sustainability, at George Brown Polytechnic.
mass-timber, net-zero building
on Queens Quay East.
This breadth of experiences
prepared her to take over George
Brown’s capital projects portfolio
earlier this year, when she was
named executive director of
Commited to
wellness, inclusion,
and lifelong learning.
georgebrown.ca/employment
facilities and sustainability.
Not bad for someone without
a background in construction or
IT, never mind being a woman
working in what are still mainly
male-dominated industries.
But Rau thinks the leadership
at George Brown recognizes the
benefits new thinking can bring to
the table.
“It reflects so positively on
George Brown that its recognition
of transferable skills allowed me to
work in so many different areas.”
