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Grant Grobman

Registered with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia
Clinical Director for Touchstone Family Association
In Practice for 24 years

Clients: BC Hydro Health Services, IBEW, COPE, CEP, Tembec, Skytrain Respectful Workplace Program, Richmond Addiction Services, Pope and Talbot, Canadian Mental Health Association, WorkSafe BC, ICBC, Liberty, BC Gas, SOS Children’s Foundation, Touchstone Families Association, Stroh Healthcare

Grant is co-founder of Collaborative Workplace Services and an expert in personality styles. For 24 years he’s helped organizations and unions deal with mental health issues in the workplace. Grant teaches managers and HR professionals to recognize people with differing personalities and to use special techniques to communicate and collaborate with them. He delivers workshops and provides consulting, mediation and facilitation services.

Grant says, “When managers have all the right tools, it’s far easier to cope with mental health issues in the workplace. People with unique personalities can be highly productive and wonderfully talented – to tap into these benefits managers must know how to tailor their communication and management techniques.”

Dr. Alan Buchanan

Clinical Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, UBC.
In Practice for 25 years

Clients: Spectra, Alcan, Telus, RCMP Health Services, BC Hydro Health Services, Health Canada, BC Public Service Agency, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, School District No. 34, Surrey Fire Department, Healthcare Benefit Trust Appeal Panel

Dr. Alan Buchanan co-founded Collaborative Workplace Services with Grant Grobman in 2007. In his 25-year career as a psychiatrist, Alan has helped many organizations deal with mental health issues in the workplace. He has conducted over 2,000 independent psychiatric evaluations (IME) to determine whether employees are ready to return to work and he’s facilitated return-to-work agreements that accommodate the needs of the employee and the organization.

In Alan’s words, “The traditional medical model too often fails to resolve mental health issues in the workplace. We believe that organizations need more than just medical advice and assessments – they need leadership development and consulting so they can manage employees with extreme personalities in better ways.”