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Top 5 Resources for Supporting Work-Life Balance

Here’s my top 5 ideas for supporting your team with work-life balance: 1. Encourage socializing - Don’t look down on employees for having water cooler conversations or chatting in between assignments — better yet, join in when it makes sense to do so! Encouraging...

2025 Woman of Inspiration™ by the Universal Womens Network™

Kelly Cooper is a 2025 Woman of Inspiration™ by the Universal Womens Network™

Honouring the Achievements of Women together with SupportHERs Across North America

Identifying Hidden Cultural Resistance

In every organization striving to evolve — whether toward inclusion, innovation, or agility — there lies an often-overlooked obstacle:hidden cultural resistance. Download the Article Enter your information for an instant download:

Using Social Intelligence to Address Workplace Culture and Root Out Toxic Leadership

Workplace culture issues and toxic leadership often arise from a lack of awareness, unchecked power dynamics, and poor communication. Social intelligence (SI) provides leaders with the skills to observe, understand, and influence behavior in ways that improve culture,...

AI: Arrogance and Ignorance?

Ok I said it – those two letters that are at the forefront of everyone’s mind these days, but I’ve applied them to two words that are at the forefront of everyone’s mind when it comes to equity and inclusion. I’ve witnessed arrogance and ignorance first hand – not...

Unveiling Traditional Leadership, One Clue at a Time

Remember the game Clue? I loved that game — going from room to room trying figure out “who done it” and with what means? I’ve been racking my brain for months on a “crime/wrongdoing” committed in the workplace, a situation where individual agendas caused a few people...

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Are Women Inclusive of Each Other?

Photo by Polina Tankilevitch Gender diversity & inclusion in the workplace is about creating a culture where everyone has to be respectful to each other. Often the finger is pointed at men to be more respectful of women. But it’s time to shine a light on women...

What are the Benefits of Gender Equality for Men in the Forest Sector?

photo by Jaymantri The federal government has taken significant leadership on gender equality in Canada in an effort to not only support women but to also improve the Canadian economy. This has generated many conversations around boardroom tables and inspired...

Creating Opportunities for Women in Forestry

An article in the Spring 2019 edition of The Working Forest highlighted the work of the Gender Equity in Forestry National Action Plan. Many companies like Lim Geomatics, are recognizing the importance of technological advancements in the sector, but also social...

Assertiveness with Men and Boys is Key to Gender Equality

I recently attended and presented at the World Bank Conference on Oil, Gas, Mining and Gender in Washington, D.C. and was impressed with the gender practitioners’ best practices from around the world on how to create a sustained shift on gender equality.

CSI: Gender Agents for Change

Creating a Gender Transformation Movement for A Better Workplace Culture The Cost of Doing Nothing Photo: The Boss Magazine Gender Equality in the workplace Women represent only 17% or less in each of the natural resource sectors (mining, oil and gas, forestry) and...

Stress Tolerance: Managing Difficult Situations in the Workplace

With the fast pace of information hitting us from all angles all day long, it’s no surprise that people feel that multi-tasking has been taken to a new level. Be it the balance between personal and professional life, or just keeping up with the pressures at work, we are now operating at a pace that the generation before us did not do. With that constant stream of action and reaction each day brings a new layer of added stress.