EVENT REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED – PLEASE CONTACT MARKETING@GLOBEANDMAIL.COM TO BE REGISTERED.
Registration closes at 11:00 A.M. on June 18, 2024.
For assistance, please contact marketing@globeandmail.com.
For decades the ‘glass ceiling’ dominated conversations about the lack of women in executive roles. But there’s growing recognition of significant gaps at the earlier stages of women’s careers. A 2023 report by McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.Org shows women often stall at the entry level. For every 100 men promoted to manager, there are only 72 women, and the situation is worse for women of colour, the report found. How are progressive organizations reassessing and formalizing who gets hired and promoted at work?
Registration closes at 11:00 A.M. on June 18, 2024. For assistance, please contact marketing@globeandmail.com.
Marwa Abdou
Senior Research Director, Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Sarah Kaplan
Distinguished Professor, Founding Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE), and Professor of Strategic Management, at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
Jess Johannson
Chief Human Resources Officer, Canada Goose
Déjà Leonard
Contributor, The Globe and Mail
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease. Novo Nordisk employs about 45,800 people in 80 countries and markets its products in around 170 countries. Novo Nordisk’s Canadian head office is in Mississauga, Ontario.
For more information, visit novonordisk.ca, or find us on Twitter: @NovoNordisk.
Desjardins Insurance offers a wide range of flexible life insurance, health insurance and retirement savings products and services. It is one of the top life insurance companies in Canada and a member of Desjardins Group, the leading cooperative financial group in Canada.
Desjardins Insurance believes that a work environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion is more than an asset—it's a necessity. That's why it is committed to welcoming each person and accepting them for who they are, learning from our differences, celebrating those differences and guaranteeing everyone the same treatment. In keeping with that commitment, Desjardins Insurance’s solutions evolve along with the changing needs of Canadians.
Learn more at desjardinslifeinsurance.com/group-insurance.
OMERS is a jointly sponsored, defined benefit pension plan, with 1,000 participating employers ranging from large cities to local agencies, and 600,000+ active, deferred and retired members. Our members include union and non-union employees of municipalities, school boards, local boards, transit systems, electrical utilities, emergency services and children’s aid societies across Ontario.
Purpose is what unites our global team of 3,000+ employees. Rooted in our values — drive with inclusion, partner with integrity, build with humility and deliver with excellence — we’ve fostered a culture where everyone is empowered to make an impact.
Focused on building tomorrow together, we originate and manage a diversified portfolio of high-quality investments in bonds, public and private credit, public and private equity, infrastructure and real estate. OMERS and Oxford teams work in Toronto, London, New York, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe.
For more information, visit OMERS.com.
Founded in 1931 by Dr. Haller, Vichy Laboratoires has been dedicated to caring for sensitive skin throughout all stages of life. Today, the brand is recommended by over 50,000 dermatologists worldwide. Our cutting-edge exposome science delves into the effects of hormones on the skin during crucial life phases, such as puberty and menopause. As a skincare partner, Vichy Laboratoires aspires to make a meaningful impact on women's well-being that transcends product solutions. We adopt a holistic approach to menopause, supporting women on their hormonal journeys. This commitment has led us to collaborate closely with experts, healthcare professionals, and thought leaders in this field, with the goal of enhancing menopausal care. Our mission extends to educating women and offering assistance during this significant transition in their lives.
For more information, visit vichy.ca.
Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm providing accounting, audit, tax and advisory services to private and public organizations. We help dynamic organizations unlock their potential for growth by providing meaningful, actionable advice through a broad range of services. Grant Thornton LLP is a Canadian member of Grant Thornton International Ltd, whose member and correspondent firms operate in over 130 countries worldwide.
For more information, visit Grant Thornton LLP.
The Pay Equity Office promotes gender economic equality by administering Ontario’s Pay Equity Act. The purpose of the Act is to eliminate pay inequity between women and men who perform work that is of comparable value to their organization. Our mission lies in closing the gender wage gap.
In Canada, it’s taken over 20 years to close the gender wage gap by 8%, with 70% of the gap remaining unexplained. Recently, the Pay Equity Office produced award-winning Level the Paying Field video and podcasts series exploring topics related to economics, equity, women, work and wage equity. Through the series, we seek to highlight how data and research can seed meaningful conversations around gender inequality and drive change.
Join the Pay Equity Office in elevating the equity conversation to make the world a more equitable place for women to work, live and thrive and support closing the gender wage gap.
Learn more at payequity.gov.on.ca/
Marwa Abdou (Senior Research Director, BDL, Canadian Chamber of Commerce): After over 12 years of multidisciplinary experience abroad, taking on this unique role in June 2022 at the Canadian Chamber has been an opportune and fitting homecoming for Marwa. In her role with the BDL, Marwa is responsible for developing and implementing an innovative long-term research agenda that crystallizes the Chamber as an essential source of intelligence about and for Canadian business.
Prior to her role at the Chamber, Marwa served as the Advisor to the Minister of International Cooperation of Egypt for Private Sector Engagement. She also worked directly with and within some of the world’s most renowned multilateral organizations, private sector organizations, and country governments including the World Bank Group, Commonwealth Secretariat, APEC, OECD, Ernst and Young, Nathan Associates and the Asian Development Bank. In addition to leading dozens of capacity and technical assistance projects, consulting on regulatory, legal and policy reforms with these institutions, she also co-authored several publications and working papers. Marwa’s journey has seen her through several professional pitstops spanning the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region where she’s worked on trade facilitation, gender equity, equality, social, and financial inclusion as well as the enablement, engagement and empowerment of the private sector. Still, one driver and common thread has always remained: championing, advocating and catalyzing impactful interventions for vulnerable groups, including businesses and SMEs, through rigorous data analysis, inventive research and storytelling. Marwa received her master’s degree in international relations and international economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She received her bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from Queen’s University Smith School of Business in Canada.
Jess is a veteran in the area of human experience, having honed her expertise through a variety of industries throughout the past 20+ years from renewable energy and engineering to manufacturing and technology. Jess joined Canada Goose in 2022 as Chief Human Resources Officer and is responsible for driving the company’s human resources strategy across its corporate, manufacturing and retail teams. She oversees all global teams within HR, including talent acquisition, employee experience, training and global policy. Jess was most recently Chief People Officer at Tucows, an Internet services and telecommunications company. Previous to Tucows, she held related positions with Capgemini, Brookfield Renewable Energy Group, Johnson Controls and Business Development Bank of Canada. Jess is motivated by out-of-the-box strategies that create engaging and impactful workplace experiences. Her strength is creating, setting and leading the trends, rather than following them. Jess holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Degree from the Asper School of Business from the University of Manitoba, with a double major in Human Resources and Marketing. Outside of work, she can be found at the movie theatre, working out or enjoying a meal with friends.
Sarah Kaplan is Founding Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE), Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy, Professor of Strategic Management and Fellow of the Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. She is a co-author of the bestselling business book, Creative Destruction as well as Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business. Her latest book, The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation is based on her award-winning course at the Rotman School. In it, she shows companies how to avoid simple “greenwashing” or “pinkwashing” in addressing corporate social responsibility and gender equity. She lays out a roadmap for organizational leaders who have hit the limits of the supposed win-win of shared value to explore how companies can cope with real trade-offs, innovating around them or even thriving within them.
Her current work focuses on applying an innovation lens to understanding the challenges for achieving gender equality and other social goods. She regularly advises corporations, governments and agencies on policies related to environmental, social and governance issues such as board diversity, board governance, care work, employment, pay equity, gender-based analysis and other topics. As a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, Professor Kaplan has dedicated her work to supporting women and people who belong to all marginalized groups.
She collaborated with Peter Dey on the 2021 report “Governance 360º: Where are the directors in a world in crisis?” which provides guidelines for boards of directors to navigate the challenges of the 21st century. In 2020, she was strategic lead on the GATE/YWCA “Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada.” She has received the Peter Dey Governance Achievement Award from the Governance Professionals of Canada and was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women Executive Network.
Formerly a professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (where she remains a Senior Fellow), and a consultant and innovation specialist for nearly a decade at McKinsey & Company in New York, she completed her doctoral research at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has a BA with honors in Political Science from UCLA and an MA in International Relations and International Economics with distinction from the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
Juliet is an asian Canadian woman dedicated to the mission of creating more equitable opportunities in the world of work. To support this endeavour, Juliet is proud to be accredited in both Canada and the USA as a Certified Canadian Inclusion Professional (CCIP) and Certified Diversity Executive (CDE).
Juliet has over 30 years of experience partnering with hundreds of organizations across Canada developing workforce management and talent acquisition strategies, she also has over 5 years of experience leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) strategies both internally and externally as a DEI consultant. With this unique perspective, Juliet strives to create tangible pathways to a more sustainable, diverse, and equitable world, especially within the world of work.
Juliet is passionate about volunteering and currently serves as Lean In Canada’s Vice President of Networks and as an advisory member of the Canadian Chapter of National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP).
