Practicing Leadership is a three-week blog series featuring members of our Youth Advisory Council as well as participants and mentors from the Learning to Lead™ program. The series explores how young women leaders are managing during COVID-19 as they navigate disruption in routine, maintain social connections, and put their leadership into practice at home and in their communities....
Practicing Leadership is a three-week blog series featuring members of our Youth Advisory Council as well as participants and mentors from the Learning to Lead™ program. The series explores how young women leaders are managing during COVID-19 as they navigate disruption in routine, maintain social connections, and put their leadership into practice at home and in their communities....
Practicing Leadership is a three-week blog series featuring members of our Youth Advisory Council as well as participants and mentors from the Learning to Lead™ program. The series explores how young women leaders are managing during COVID-19 as they navigate disruption in routine, maintain social connections, and put their leadership into practice at home and...
Practicing Leadership is a three-week blog series featuring members of our Youth Advisory Council as well as participants and mentors from the Learning to Lead™ program. The series explores how young women leaders are managing during COVID-19 as they navigate disruption in routine, maintain social connections, and put their leadership into practice at home and in their communities....
Practicing Leadership is a three-week blog series featuring members of our Youth Advisory Council as well participants and mentors from the Learning to Lead™ program. The series explores how young women leaders are managing during COVID-19 as they navigate disruption in routine, maintain social connections, and put their leadership into practice at home and in their...
These past few weeks have shown us the value of leadership. Specifically, the value of women’s leadership. In Canada, public health leaders like Dr. Bonnie Henry and Dr. Theresa Tam are guiding us through this crisis with expertise and humility. Across the globe, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern is being praised for providing a...
Sometimes, the answer to the generic “what do you do?” question is nice and simple: “I’m a lawyer, I’m a nurse, I’m an accountant”, for example. Other times, like when the question is posed to Kiana Alexander, a simple one-word answer won’t suffice. Kiana is the Chief Operating Officer at the Raven Institute, which is...
PwC Canada, a member firm of the second-largest services firm in the world, is one of the most recent organizations to sign Minerva’s diversity pledge, committing to gender parity at the leadership level. And although the partnership with Minerva is new, the organization’s work towards furthering gender parity is not. “We’ve seen a significant benefit,...
Understanding the importance of being a leader in her community has been part of Lori Ackerman long before she was elected Mayor of Fort St. John in 2011. Even before spending two terms as a City Councillor and serving as the Family Service Director at the local Salvation Army, it was Mayor Ackerman’s parents who...
Bob Elton talks about what men can do to be part of the gender equality discussion Fighting for gender equality involves a lot of hard work – work that needs to be shared by both men and women. Bob Elton, former President and CEO of BC Hydro and former Board Director at Minerva BC, has...
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