He/Him
Jamie Bruno is a senior public sector executive with more than 20 years of experience directing organizations through collective bargaining and large-scale transformation across higher education, healthcare, and government.
As Vice President, People and Transformation at Ontario Tech University, Jamie has provided executive leadership for the university’s overall labour relations strategy since 2017 and has directed the planning and negotiation of collective agreements across five bargaining units representing faculty, teaching, research and administrative staff. He has successfully led the institution through complex negotiations and periods of significant organizational disruption, including strike preparedness and crisis response. By integrating bargaining strategy with institutional priorities, he advances outcomes that support operational continuity, fiscal stewardship, and respectful relationships with employees and union partners.
In previous roles, Jamie designed the negotiation approach and strategy in hospital for bargaining with unions representing frontline healthcare workers, support staff, and engineers, and was part of collective bargaining in government involving policing association and unions representing both professional and administrative employees.