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Step Ahead: Preparing for Senior Leadership

EXPERT ADVICE

 

Building Workplaces that Work for Women: How to make your organization more inclusive

 

Tanya van Biesen left her 21-year career in the corporate world of executive search to take on a leading role with a global non-profit supporting one of her passions: advancing inclusive workplaces.

SUCCESS STORY

 

Leading in Luxury: The director of marketing for Toronto’s Bisha Hotel shares her career journey

 

Christal Agostino knew that marketing for the luxury segment was a highly competitive field — so she gave herself an edge by including international luxury brand management studies in her MBA. She’s been climbing in her career ever since.

SUCCESS STORY

 

Learning and Leaning in: How an EMBA gave Darielle Corsaro the confidence to take her career to new heights

 

Darielle Corsaro was looking for a new challenge. On the advice of a mentor, she enrolled in an MBA program — and returned to work not only with added knowledge, but also a newfound confidence.

CAREER ADVICE

 

When Deviance Works to Your Advantage

 

Tired of mediocrity and negativity at work? Jana Raver, Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Smith School of Business, offers five strategies to give you the power to inspire organizational change.

 

SUCCESS STORY

 

Too busy to do your absolute best? Done is better than perfect, advises Raman Gakhal

 

While Raman Gakhal was completing the Executive MBA-Americas program presented jointly by Smith School of Business at Queen’s University and Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, she was also handling some major changes at home — caring for a young infant, and preparing for a second on the way. The lesson she learned? Done is better than perfect.

PROFILE

 

Strategic Moves: How Canadian Kate Murphy became the CEO of a gaming startup in Norway

 

Kate Murphy is the CEO of Play Magnus, a startup based in Norway that offers apps and events for practicing and playing chess. How did she get picked to head the company, considering she doesn’t speak Norwegian or play the game? Kate discusses the leadership tactics she’s learned through her entrepreneurial experience combined with a top tier MBA.

SUCCESS STORY

 

To Close The Gender Gap, It’s A Matter Of Degrees

 

With her engineering background, Christina Waters thought she would have to invest 20 years before getting a senior management position. Six years into her career, she decided to speed up her progression with a Queen’s MBA – but she had to work through her self-doubts to take the plunge. Like many women, “age and stage” issues were holding her back. 

CAREER ADVICE

 

The confidence gap— 3 tools to level the playing field

 

Today, women make up almost half of the workforce in Canada; yet men are twice as likely to hold senior management positions. A growing body of evidence suggests that confidence matters more than competence to workplace success, and it is this “confidence gap” that holds women back. Lora Sprigings, Career Coach at Smith School of Business, offers three strategies to bridge the gap.

 


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