People Operations
Recruiting, onboarding, retention, and culture — designing the employee experience from first touch to long-term growth.
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer · ARISE Human Capital
Operations with
a human heart.
I'm Tamara — a strategic commercial leader with 20+ years building people-first organizations. I help high-growth teams turn strategy into momentum: systems, culture, and leaders that let great work happen at scale.
About
Operator. Builder.
People-first.
I'm Tamara — a Montreal-based executive and Co-Founder & COO of ARISE Human Capital, where I help organizations unlock the full potential of their people. ARISE was born in 2025 out of a simple belief: when people rise, they lift organizations, communities, and the world around them.
My career spans more than 20 years of senior leadership at global companies — Procter & Gamble, Abbott Nutrition, Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, and Merck Canada — where I drove growth, transformation, and lasting results. I've also built organizations from the ground up in fast-moving sectors like dental and cannabis, growing a Quebec cannabis business from $20M to $100M in profitable sales and creating nearly 200 jobs along the way.
Devoted to empowering women to succeed, I co-founded Women Leaders in Pharma in 2018 and serve on its Board of Advisors.
What I do
Where I focus
my energy.
Organizational Design
Structures, compensation frameworks, succession planning, and change management — the systems that let teams scale without breaking.
Commercial Growth
Turning strategy into revenue — from brand building at P&G and Sanofi to scaling a start-up from $20M to $100M.
Leadership & Culture
Coaching and mentoring emerging leaders, championing diversity and inclusion, and building workplaces people are proud to be part of.
Career
A track record
of building.
2025 — now
Co-Founder & COO, ARISE Human Capital
Building a leadership assessment platform and consulting practice that helps organizations create thriving, high-performance workplaces.
Prior
Chief Business Officer, Quebec cannabis company
Grew the business from $20M to $100M in profitable sales over four years, creating nearly 200 jobs and a culture where people thrived.
Earlier
Senior leadership — P&G, Abbott, Sanofi, Merck
Commercial leadership across CPG, beauty, and pharma: leading teams through restructurings, brand acquisitions, and global growth.
2018
Co-Founder, Women Leaders in Pharma
Co-founded a now well-established Canadian association devoted to empowering women to reach their full potential.
Education
McGill · HEC Montréal · Harvard · Oxford
Bachelor's in HR & Organizational Behaviour from McGill (with honours), MBA in Marketing from HEC Montréal, plus executive certificates from Oxford and Harvard Business School (AI Essentials for Business).
Approach
How I lead.
"Sustainable performance comes from investing in human capital — through continuous learning, coaching and mentorship, diversity and inclusion, and incentives that align company, team, and individual goals."
— Tamara Lovi
Clarity first.
Ambiguity is expensive. I make the path visible.
Ambiguity is expensive. I make the path visible.
People before process.
Systems serve people, never the other way around.
Systems serve people, never the other way around.
Progress over perfection.
Ship, learn, iterate — momentum beats waiting.
Ship, learn, iterate — momentum beats waiting.
Contact
Let's build
something that lasts.
Interested in working together, or just want to connect?
tamara@tamaralovi.com