Alana Peer is a senior HR and Total Rewards leader with more than 15 years of experience across compensation, organizational design, HR operations, employee experience and organizational effectiveness. She has worked across financial services, insurance, consulting, manufacturing, media and higher education, with much of her career focused on complex, global organizations.

Alana is currently AVP, Total Rewards & People Experience at Sagicor Financial Company, where she leads enterprise Total Rewards initiatives and provides HR leadership for the company’s Canadian operations. Her experience includes executive and broad-based compensation, global rewards strategy, job architecture, benefits redesign, HR technology, workforce governance and organizational design, including the use of human-centred design to improve employee and leader experiences. She has led large-scale initiatives spanning multiple countries, business functions and stakeholder groups, often working across the boundaries between traditional HR disciplines.

Throughout her career, Alana has partnered with executives, Boards and cross-functional teams to solve complex people and organizational challenges. She is particularly interested in questioning assumptions, bringing different perspectives into the conversation, and understanding how organizational decisions, processes and systems work in practice for the people affected by them. She values curiosity, candour and being willing to change course when new information challenges the original assumption.

In addition to her corporate leadership experience, Alana has taught Compensation & Benefits, HR Management and Labour Relations at the post-secondary level and serves on the HR & Compensation Committees at Wilfrid Laurier University. She holds CCP and GRP designations through WorldatWork, as well as CHRL, PCP and MCIPD credentials, and was a speaker at the 2026 WorldatWork Canada Summit.