Rhoda Lalog, Founder of Urban Consciousness. Rhoda Lalog is a seasoned HR expert with over 20 years of practical and professional experience in the industries of telecommunications and banking. Her diverse HR career includes internal and external leadership consulting on recruitment, performance management, employee engagement, and employee relations, with specializations in health and safety, risk management, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Rhoda’s lifelong fascination with human behavior inspired her academic background, which includes a certificate in early childhood education and a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and communications. She is currently licensed as a registered psychotherapist (qualifying) in Ontario, practicing a holistic model of psychotherapy with an area of focus on leaders and entrepreneurs. Her passion for understanding the inner workings of our minds from childhood to adulthood, in the context of our social settings, has been the key motivator that continues to inform her career path. Today, she combines her working knowledge as a therapist with decades of HR leadership insights to bring humanity back into the function of Human Resources. She is passionate about building the capacity of organizations to foster a safe and inclusive environment that places a focus on the mental and emotional wellbeing of individuals.