Career

For years, conversations about women in entrepreneurship have focused on what we supposedly lack: confidence, networks, risk tolerance, or access. Shelley Kuipers believes that conversation is backwards.

Ask enough founders how they started, and pretty quickly you'll start to see a pattern: most of them didn't feel ready. They didn't have every detail mapped out, unlimite…

Getting yourself board-ready is a journey in which you need to be realistic about the skills, experience and value you bring to a board. Throughout the process, you shoul…

If you have successfully secured a corporate board seat, the next step in your journey is to take on a leadership role within the board. However, just like in your profes…

When my kids were very young, I spent three hours a day commuting to work. By the time I arrived home, I was exhausted. But the day was far from over. I rushed to pick th…

My focus was on the kind of leadership the world tends to recognize – the kind that comes with a title and an office. Getting more women into those spaces mattered. It still does. However, it is only part of the picture. My work with CARE Canada showed me another part of a much larger picture.

Across Canada, more women are working for themselves. They’re freelancers, consultants, creatives, and tradespeople carving out income between school pickups and elder ca…

I was twenty years old when I boarded a plane with two suitcases, a one-way ticket to New York, and no real understanding of what it meant to start over. I remember walki…