Katerin Juape is Director of Global Employee Recognition at Scotiabank, where she leads the strategy, design, and governance of the Bank’s enterprise recognition ecosystem. Her work focuses on positioning recognition as a performance lever—intentionally designed to reinforce business priorities, drive productivity, and enable discretionary effort.

Katerin oversees global programs spanning day‑to‑day recognition, performance‑based awards, and years of service recognition, supporting employees across diverse roles, geographies, and functions. She partners closely with senior leaders, HR business partners, and people managers to ensure recognition is timely, meaningful, and aligned to clear performance and impact criteria—moving it beyond “nice‑to‑have” praise to a tool leaders actively use to drive results.

With more than a decade of experience in employee recognition, Katerin brings a strong focus on governance, leader enablement, and data‑informed decision‑making. She is passionate about building recognition practices that are inclusive, scalable, and directly connected to organizational outcomes.