A Q&A with Les Dakens, former CHRO at Maple Leaf Foods
Les Dakens has had a prolific career in human resources. He was the North American HR director at Cadbury Schweppes in the 1980s, North American vice-president of HR at Heinz in the 1990s and topped it off by being CHRO at CN Rail from 2001 to 2008, when he retired.