Nicole Price

Nicole seeks out opportunities to resolve workplace conflict through investigations, assessments, and mediations, navigating challenges to reach fair, balanced, and practical outcomes.

Investigator & Trainer

Since 2013, Nicole has focused her practice on workplace investigations and is known as a leading practitioner in this growing, dynamic field. She incorporates trauma-informed approaches, unconscious bias training, and specific training on investigating sexual misconduct into her work, and she also provides anti-harassment and investigation training across sectors.

Federally Regulated Employers Investigator (National Registry)

Nicole became a member of the Government of Canada’s Work Place Harassment and Violence Prevention Regulations Registry of Investigators in 2021. She has conducted numerous investigations for federally regulated organizations under the Canada Labour Code, including for maritime, trucking, rail, Crown, and First Nations clients. Nicole is well versed in both procedural and practical aspects of these investigations and values the opportunity to make recommendations to foster positive workplace outcomes.

Mediator

Nicole has extensive experience resolving workplace conflict, drawing on 20 years of workplace law practice. Nicole firmly believes that many disputes are better suited to a mediated resolution. She looks for opportunities to mediate (with parties’ consent) in matters that might otherwise be investigated, successfully resetting working relationships.

Assessor

Nicole has extensive experience conducting workplace assessments across sectors, providing practical and effective recommendations. Nicole believes workplace assessments offer opportunities to address matters before they escalate and demonstrate to employees that their voices matter. Nicole has conducted large workplace assessments where she led a team and used various tools, including surveys and interviews, as well as smaller assessments allowing for a deep dive into specific teams and departments.

After articling with a national law firm, Nicole joined its Labour and Employment group as an associate. Her desire for firsthand exposure to business operations prompted her move to in-house Employee Relations, gaining over a decade of in-depth workplace experience in both the private and public sectors. During that time, she worked collaboratively with stakeholder groups, unions, and leadership to negotiate and resolve complex workplace issues, including through collective bargaining.

• Called to the Bar in British Columbia (2002)

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of British Columbia (2001)

• Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons), Psychology, University of Windsor (1998)

• Mediation and Conflict Management Certificate, Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation (2024)

• Annual continuing professional development courses accredited by the Law Society of British Columbia on topics such as Human Rights, Labour and Employment Law, Privacy Law, Mediation (2015 to present)

• Association of Workplace Investigators Conference, (2018, 2019, and 2024)

• Title IX Training, Investigating Sexual Misconduct on Campuses (including trauma-informed training) (2017)

• Presenter of “Evidentiary and Ethical Issues in Workplace Investigations,” Canadian Bar Association, Investigations Section (2024)

• Co-Chair of the “Investigations Workshop,” Lancaster House (2020)

• Co-Author of “Investigations as an Evolving Area,” BarTalk (2020)

• Presenter of “Strategies for Successful Workplace Investigations,” Canadian Bar Association Employment Law Section (2016)