Self-compassion: your secret weapon when faced with adversity
You are out of your comfort zone, you’re doing something you’ve never done before, you’re learning and you’re growing. You feel great until… Things don’t go as planned or you make a mistake. You start to feel awful and that voice in your head starts to...
My inner critic made me do it. Unpacking my own self sabotage
This morning, I ran the Miami half marathon while my husband ran the full marathon. Why didn’t I run the full marathon? That is a loaded question.A few months ago, my husband decided that he wanted to run a marathon. This was going to be his big goal of...
Loaded question: Why are most companies buying their women’s leadership initiatives from men?
Last week I was reading the 2018 World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report. If we continue to make progress at the same pace, the gap for economic opportunity (i.e. gender parity in the workplace) will close in 167 years in Canada and the US. For the world as...
Loaded Question: Will investing in women create a divide in my organization?
This question comes up a lot, especially when I’m talking to senior leaders. The last thing an organization wants to do is alienate women, or give special treatment to someone just because of their gender. They don’t want it to backfire and they don’t want...
We’ve closed the gender gap in education. Now it’s time to tackle the workplace.
I recently read The World Economic Forum 2017 Global Gender Gap Report, and there's something to celebrate. Today there is absolutely no gap in the US and Canada when it comes to educational attainment for men and women. What this means is that a lot of the groundwork...
Why women don’t apply for leadership roles and what you can do about it
Gender diversity in leadership is an elephant sized problem here in Canada and around the world. Men and women want to solve this problem but there is no easy solution. Last year I was at a conference on diversity and I kept hearing the same thing: I want to hire more...