Resources

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...

YourForest Podcast

Find out some of the challenges faced with implementing Free To Grow in Forestry. “I wouldn’t have expected someone from the LGBTQ+ community, and a woman, to be behind the undermining of Free to Grow. That’s when I knew this was about power and control, not the...

CIFAL Global Network – Sector Series Panel

Panel Discussion on Localizing the Canadian Supply Chain – Understanding Sector Specific Impacts on US Tariffs in the Forest sector.

Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) recognizes Free to Grow in Forestry

https://www.ccfm.org/canadians-and-communities/forests-an-integral-part-of-our-communities/

The Path of Least Resistance

As pointed out in my book Lead the Change – The Competitive Advantage of Gender Diversity and Inclusion - we live in an increasingly culturally diverse country and Canadian businesses must engage all facets of the current workforce that are available to them to...

Benefits to Men on Gender Diversity & Inclusion

Yes, that’s what I said. Benefits to men. Hard to believe a commonly thought of “women’s issue” can be interpreted as benefiting men but it does. Let me explain with just the top four things that come to mind: 1. Safe space to speak up about...

Blog

Social Intelligence Can Optimize A Corporations Effectiveness

Leading companies are focusing on advancing environmental and social aspects of their company and tracking it through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting. Much of the conversation to date has focused on environmental issues and concerns with only...

New Year Reflections

January is the month for reflection – of the year gone by and the year ahead. I often find myself drawing down the lessons from the year with the hope that I will integrate those nuggets of knowledge into my being such that it no longer seems to be a lesson, just an...

Gender Diversity in the Mining Sector

My daughter will be heading into high school this fall and is beginning to think about possible career options. Her future will be quite different than mine was when I entered the workforce. My parents raised me to think I could do anything I put my mind to and it...

New Year Reflections

January is the month for reflection – of the year gone by and the year ahead. I often find myself drawing down the lessons from the year with the hope that I will integrate those nuggets of knowledge into my being such that it no longer seems to be a lesson, just an...

Climate change and Nunavut: building a future

As climate change continues to impact the globe, and most Canadians cheer for warmer winters, the citizens of Canada’s northern regions are cheering for a different reason. Faced with unprecedented new economic opportunities, Canada’s northern territories are well...