Mrs. Diana Mahabir Wyatt

Executive Director,
PMSL     
PRESENTATION: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND ITS IMPACT UPON ABSENTEEISM IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO  
This session would provide participants with a historical overview of Industrial Relations in Trinidad and Tobago and how the employment relationship has contributed to absenteeism in workplaces today

From 1963 -1966 she taught a survey course in communications skills at the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies. She is a certified Psychometric Testing specialist and has been trained in Executive Coaching by the Institute of Executive Coaching. In 2001 she got her M.Sc. (Edu) from CSUA, specializing in online education and adult learning and in 2012 was awarded an LLD (Doctorate of Law - honoris causa) from the University of the West Indies and was awarded a Community Service Medal (Gold) for her work in the field of Human Rights specifically work with women.

In 1966, Diana Mahabir-Wyatt joined the Employers' Consultative Association of Trinidad and Tobago responsible for setting up supervisory and management training programmes and for handling general administration. In 1969, she was appointed Director of the Association. Serving as Chief Executive Officer of the Employers' Consultative Association and the Caribbean Employers' Confederation simultaneously for almost 15 years, she gave assistance to employers' federations throughout the Caribbean in industrial relations, management training, labour legislation and human resource development.

Ms. Mahabir-Wyatt served as a founding member of the National Training Board of Trinidad and Tobago, of the Registration, Recognition and Certification Board and of the National Insurance Board of Trinidad & Tobago. She served on various other national committees and commissions including the Workman's Compensation/ Employment Injury Committee, Severance Pay Legislation Committee, Freedom of Association Committee, National Flexi-Time Committee, National Productivity Council, the National Training Board, the Self Help Commission, and the Family Court Committee, among others.

She is deeply involved in community development work, serving on the Boards of Directors of Servol, the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Trinidad and" Tobago Coalition for the Rights of the Child, Childline, and the Caribbean Center for Human Rights.

In 1991 Diana Mahabir-Wyatt was formally appointed an Independent Senator by the President of the Republic in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and served continuously in that position until she left the Senate in 2000.

She is at present the Chairman of the Board and the Executive Director in the consultancy firm of PMSL. Since becoming a founding Partner of PMSL, Diana’s portfolio has included the development of performance management systems, managing the human resource aspects of organizational change, assessing training needs and developing training programmes appropriate to the culture of individual companies, and industrial sectors, executive “head hunting”, psychometric testing, executive level mediation and internal company investigations, dispute handling and providing advice, individual coaching and training in industrial relations, team-work and leadership development matters.