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Lynn Roger, the Global Head of Employee Experience & Workplace Transformation at BMO Financial Group, is passionate about designing human-centric workspaces. In this episode, she discusses how putting people first when designing spaces has positive impacts on business outcomes.

Intro: Jill Proud, CEO of the Proud Group, a leadership transformation company discusses why boundaries matter, how they can contribute to personal growth, leadership capabilities, and even make us happier people.

Samra Zafar is a bestselling author of the book, A Good Wife. She’s an international speaker, and the director of business finance at BMO. She is also the founder of a non-profit organization called Brave Beginnings. It is dedicated to supporting abuse survivors in their journey to build a life of freedom. Her story is remarkable, and so is her passion for empowering people to believe in themselves. Today, she joins us on Her Money, Her Way to discuss the power of collective resilience.

In this episode, Kathleen Burns-Kingsbury speaks with Dr. Amy D’Aprix, authority on lifestyle issues, and a variety of topics on wealth and living your best life, and Whitney Rockley, co-founder and Managing Director of McRock Capital about how to not only how to perfect a funding pitch, how to stretch your resilience to deal with rejection, and what role gender might play in both the pitch and the comeback.

What are some of the signs it’s time to grow your business, and, if it’s time, how do you undergo that expansion? Marg Hachey, Managing Director of GroYourBiz, and former owner of Duocom, shares the lessons she learned about business growth as an extremely successful entrepreneur, how she stays up-to-date in the business world today, and what she does now to help other women grow their businesses.

Author, facilitator, business owner. Michelle Bailey is all three. She’s also a person who believes in mindfulness, gratitude, outsourcing what you’re not good at, work-life integration, and self-care. As an agency owner, and the founder of My Big Idea, Michelle’s personal and professional goal setting process has helped countless individuals set, and reach their goals. Hear what she has to say about gaining clarity, setting your goals, and her own next big ideas, in this episode.

Courtney Reardon, Director of Institutional Equity Sales, BMO Capital Markets is also the 68th American woman to summit Everest, and survive. In this episode, Courtney will tell us about her expedition, and share the insights she gained along the way that can help all of us become more successful at home and at work.

The statistics are in, and the proof is in the outcomes. With diverse boards, outcomes are better – financially and otherwise. However, women are still under-represented at boardroom tables across North America. Katie Kelley, Vice-Chair, US Commercial Banking with BMO Harris, and Traci Bransford, General Counsel, Business, and Entertainment Attorney bring their passion for increasing the number of women on corporate boards to this discussion about why it’s so important to have that diversity at the tabl

As a small business owner, finding talent you can trust, hiring the right employees, and building a team you trust can feel like a challenge. Carol Robinson, principal founder of Harbour West Consulting and Clear Talent People Solutions, and her colleague, Tara Parry, join Kathleen to discuss some ways to make the process less challenging, and how hiring based on shared values may lead to better human resources decisions.

A career in STEM, a realization that a lack of diversity is not going to change itself without advocacy and an incredible outpouring of support. Those were the keys that propelled Jodi Kovitz, founder of #movethedial, to spearhead a global movement to advance the participation and leadership of women in technology.