About Salish HR
Salish HR supports mining, energy, LNG, and capital-project organizations with senior advisory, consulting, and executive HR leadership in complex, safety-critical, and capital-intensive environments.
We work with organizations facing growth, mobilization, restructuring, leadership transition, and workforce or operating-model challenges where experienced judgment and practical execution matter.
Founder
Chris Reid is the Founder of Salish HR and a senior HR and Corporate Services executive with more than 20 years of experience across mining, energy, LNG, engineering, defense, and major capital projects.
Over the course of his career, Chris has worked with organizations operating in complex, safety-critical, and capital-intensive environments where workforce decisions, leadership capability, and organizational effectiveness have a direct impact on execution. His experience includes supporting businesses through periods of growth, mobilization, restructuring, leadership transition, and broader organizational change.
Salish HR reflects that background. Chris works with clients who need practical, senior-level support on workforce, leadership, and HR operating challenges — whether as an advisor, a consulting partner, or in an executive HR leadership capacity. His approach is grounded, commercially minded, and shaped by firsthand experience in environments where the stakes are high and the work needs to move forward.
Areas of experience include:
- Mining, energy, LNG, and capital-project environments
- Workforce and organization readiness
- Leadership and executive HR support
- HR operating model, governance, and people systems
- Growth, restructuring, and transition support
