Sochi sponsors should follow AT&T’s lead and speak up for LGBT rights: MacDonald
The Olympic Rings displayed near Sochi, Russia (Photo: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty) The business community can (and should) follow AT&T’s lead in speaking out in solidarity with the lesbian, gay, bisexual...
View ArticleWhen it comes to workplace diversity, small details say a lot
(Illustration by Peter Arkle) In August, workplace communication app Slack launched a new feature called “Add to Slack” that allows users to pull in outside content from other applications. The company...
View ArticleCanada’s Most Powerful Business People 2016: #10 — Deborah Gillis
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View ArticleMany Canadian women feel conflicted about their careers, survey finds
Our colleagues at Chatelaine today unveiled This is 40(ish), a comprehensive survey of 1,000 Canadian women aged 35 to 45, to better understand their attitudes and aspirations across all areas of...
View ArticleWhy Canada Needs an “Old Girls’ Club”
Mary Lou Maher, chief inclusion officer, KPMG in Canada. (KPMG) When Justin Trudeau appointed women to half of the positions in his first cabinet, crusaders for gender equality were elated. But the...
View ArticleImproving diversity in upper management means changing frontline hiring
(Illustration by Peter Arkle) When Zabeen Hirji joined the Royal Bank of Canada as a teller in 1977, all of the company’s executives were white men. By 2015, eight years into her tenure as the bank’s...
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