Bailey is the Founder & CEO of SkillsCamp — an award-winning digital marketer, TEDx speaker, and businesswoman with a talent for helping people and brands tell better stories. Bailey frequently speaks publicly about social media, personal branding, and media and mental health. She is currently working towards an MA in Communications and Culture, part-time at Ryerson University, with research focused on social media’s impact on mental health.
Devery found her passion for the arts from a young age. Her first big break came when she was cast as the lead role in Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013). Since then, Devery has gone on to amass a significant body of work in several film and television productions. Outside of acting and filmmaking, her other passion lies in Indigenous rights activism.
As CEO of YWCA Metro Vancouver, Deb Bryant is working to bring economic independence and wellness to vulnerable women. She’s also dreaming big about a better future through a global vision for change. That’s why Deb and the YWCA are taking part in the Women Deliver 2019 Mobilization Canada campaign — joining their voices with those of other Canadian organizations to bring about positive change.
Technology can have an impact on an organization’s success — and these eight entrepreneurs know it. As participants in the Cisco Women Entrepreneurs’ Circle, they’ve been paired with engineering interns with the goal of using technology to better their businesses. They’re sharing the challenges they’re solving with technology this year — could it help your company, too?
On May 3, Labour Minister Patty Hajdu published a notice of intent, initiating a regulatory process to make free menstrual products available in federally regulated workplaces. There’s now a 60-day consultation period to determine how to best implement the proposal, and the impact it will have on businesses —and about 480,000 women employees in the federal labour force.
Robin Swicord was born in South Carolina and raised in rural Florida and Georgia. She is a screenwriter and director known for her screenplay adaptations of Little Women, Matilda, and Memoirs of a Geisha. We caught up with her to discuss her career journey ahead of her Books on Film talk in Toronto, where she will discussing the process of adapting a book for film.
Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and event producer. She turned around Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker as Editor-in-Chief. She wrote a bestselling biography of Princess Diana. She launched The Daily Beast news site and Women in the World summits. And she’s our Women of Influence Luncheon speaker.
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Here’s how Tiffany James landed her dream job at L’Oréal headquarters in Paris
Meet Nathalie Pambrun: the first ever Indigenous woman to serve as President of the Canadian Association of Midwives
How a physics professor is helping to get more women’s voices into Canadian media
Eight entrepreneurs reveal the tech challenges they are tackling now — and how it will make their business better
Why the CEO of YWCA Greater Metro Vancouver is Mobilizing for Gender Equality
Five minutes with Labour Minister Patty Hajdu on offering free menstrual products in the workplace
