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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...

How to Deal With Resistance to Diversity & Inclusion

Change of any kind is often met with some level of resistance so it is no surprise that some people – both men and women – resist changing a workplace culture to be more gender diverse and inclusive. In the report “The Path of Least RESISTANCE to Gender Diversity...

Become an Ally – Toolkit

Want to know how to be an ally to underrepresented groups in your workplace? This report provides “the ally journey spectrum” to help individuals learn the steps they can take to contribute to an inclusive workplace culture. It also provides tangible allyship actions...

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...

Think gender-based violence outside the workplace doesn’t affect your business? Think again. Here’s my story.

My husband and I decided to go out on the town this past NYE – get dressed up and find somewhere where we could have dinner and dance to live music. I found a great dress, put on the heels for the first time since covid hit, and we were off. The evening was going...

Top 10 things leaders can do to create gender equality in the workplace

Like all great leaders, and as further explained in my book Lead the Change – The Competitive Advantage of Gender Diversity and Inclusion, there are key actions that can be taken now to help improve gender equality in the workplace. Here are a few thoughts to get your...

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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.

Impulse control – Look Before You Leap

Despite the growing attention given to gender diversity these days, you can still find people who will quietly admit that they don’t see this issue as an issue at all. They are the folks who look around them and see women employed and wonder what all the fuss is...

How Do EQ Skills Improve My Business? The Necessity of Self-Awareness

“Can’t you see why you’re wrong?!”. We have all heard this, or some variation of it, in our arguments with those closest to us. Typically, the recipient of this phrase is unable or unwilling to change their viewpoint, leading to a further breakdown in communication....

Why Corporate Social Intelligence should be on your company’s radar.

Despite major advances in the last decade in Corporate Social Responsibility, companies have missed the mark when it comes to Social Intelligence. This concept was developed by Edward Thorndike in 1920 and it refers to how humans act toward each other. In an...

Five ways to make the most out of your change agent

Change agents spend their time managing large projects in as little time as possible. Management often expects change agents to get the process done without intrusion or without relying too heavily on employees. Unfortunately, that prevents the agent from doing good...