Shelly Dauphinee Associate VP, Psychological Injury

Shelly Dauphinee BA, MPL, ICD.D is an accomplished executive with broad leadership experience in public service and workplace health science. For over 25 years, Shelly has lead and inspired multidisciplinary teams that have been recognized with national and international awards in the Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety fields.  

Shelly brings a well-informed perspective to the challenges of the workplace health science field. Developed through her leadership roles across Canada with the Ontario Ministry of Health, the Canadian Red Cross, WorksafeNB and Pacific Coast University, Shelly brings expert knowledge and lived experience in strategy, policy and operational excellence to advance occupational health and safety, disability management and compensation insurance issues and opportunities. 

With over 10 years as the Vice President of Operations for WorksafeNB, and as a Corporate Director with the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety and Threads of Life - The Canadian Association for Workplace Tragedy Family Support, Shelly is equally as comfortable in the board room as she is listening to an injured worker or family member.  She is committed to sharing her experience and insight on leadership, governance, strategy, client experience, and multidisciplinary care to improve workers compensation for both workers and employers, and to develop future leaders.

Shelly was also recently appointed to the Executive Leadership Committee of the National Poverty Reduction Initiative through the National Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR), a role that sees Shelly directly involved in thinking and programming that applies return to work principles within early intervention approaches that are helping to mitigate poverty.

Born and raised in Atlantic Canada, Shelly completed a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the University of New Brunswick, and a Master of Human Services Planning (MPL) at Queens University. In 2015, she earned her Professional Corporate Director designation (ICD.D) through the Institute of Corporate Directors.