Associate Vice President, Psychological Injury

Shelly Dauphinee is an accomplished executive leader and board governor with a proven track record of influencing and aligning people, policies, and processes. 

Shelly currently serves as WCB Nova Scotia’s first-ever Associate Vice President of Psychological Injury, leading the Traumatic and Gradual Onset and Psychological Injury teams, and ensuring the needed cultural shift toward workplaces that are psychology safe is represented at the executive level.

Shelly joined WCB Nova Scotia in 2021 as the Director of Specialized Adjudication and Workplace Services. During that time serving in this role, she restructured the traumatic psychological injuries business unit and implemented program-level initiatives that have improved return to work, claim duration, and service. 

Before joining WCB Nova Scotia, Shelly served for 21 years at WorkSafe New Brunswick in various leadership roles including Director of Policy and Planning, Vice President of WorkSafe Services, and Vice President, Claims Management and Rehabilitation.

Shelly is a member of the Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Committee of Nova Scotia and is currently the Chair of the Governance Committee of Threads of Life, a Canadian registered charity dedicated to supporting families after a workplace fatality, life-altering injury, or occupational disease.