Joan Canning  utilizes her human resources experience to create HR Advocate, a HR consulting company established in 2006 to offer businesses a sincere, personalized approach on any of their employees’ concerns or needs.

HR Advocate offers the following programs to small-and medium-sized companies:

• Catalytic Coaching – Ending the Performance Review, created by Gary Markle, Owner/Founder of Energage Inc.
  
• Designing Compensation Strategies
• the HR Power Hour
• the HR Advocate Help Desk
• and Straight-Talk: Management & Compliance Training

HR Advocate designed these tailored services to guides employers through the complexities of employment regulations, while helping them meet the needs of their employees—their most crucial asset, and greatest expense. Joan Canning uses the HR Power Hour to work with employers to develop a personalized HR action plan, one that will not only enhance organizational performance, but also reduce the risk of employee relations volatility. The HR Advocate Help Desk provides a lifeline to employers, where they receive customized answers to any of their HR questions. Straight-Talk: Management & Compliance Training provides employers and managers with comprehensive, applicable training programs targeted to enhance workplace culture and goals.