Breaking Space

When discrimination rains on your parade, bring an umbrella of tools and awareness so that you can continue on your way to success.

We speak with WinSETT's Erica Lee Garcia to learn about SkillBuilders that can help anyone learn and grow in leadership.  Through collaboration and partnership, the WinSETT Centre creates and fosters opportunities that encourage women to enter, stay, grow and lead in science, engineering, trades and technology careers.

To find out more about WinSETT's skill builders: https://winsettcentre.org/leadership-program/skill-builders/.  Listen for a 50% discount code provided in the episode.

Erica Lee-Garcia, P.Eng.
Ontario Regional Facilitator and National Leadership Program Director - WinSETT Centre.
Erica is a professional engineer with over 20 years’ experience in automotive manufacturing, mining and non-profit management. She is a Six Sigma Black Belt, professional change agent, innovator and big-picture thinker. Erica is also mentor to students and recent grads who aspire to change the world.  Erica founded Erica Lee Consulting Inc in 2010 to assists companies in improving their performance, reducing their impact and building great culture. Erica has a significant track record in achieving improvements throughout her career, totalling over $364M. She has significant cross-cultural work experience, including fluency in English and Spanish.  She has coached mining professionals in Spain, Peru and Chile, managed the startup a recycling and poverty reduction initiative in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and built a successful 10-year cross-cultural marriage to a great Peruvian guy she met while working on it. She is teaching her 3 amazing daughters to be kind (not nice) and to love spaceships and dinosaurs as well as Barbies and unicorns. She founded and currently Chairs the Board of the national non-profit organization Engineers of Tomorrow that inspires the next generation of engineers and STEM professionals through effective, impactful outreach to young people.

This week we speak with Adeline Huynh about creating a culture that allows for inclusivity at the top.  We talk talent pipelines, salary transparency and what it takes to make senior leadership a place where culture starts, not where it ends.

Adeline (she/her)  is the CEO & Principal of the commons, a diversity + inclusion strategy firm. With almost 15 years of leadership in the field of equity, diversity and inclusion she has worked in large public sector organizations and with private sector businesses to bring about culture shift.  Learn more about Adeline at https://thecommonsconsulting.com/.

Tune In September 22nd for the launch of Season 2 and join us as we continue to Break and Make Space in the architecture, engineering, construction and real estate development industries.  See you soon.

Part Two of our conversation with Sue Unerman, Chief Transformation Officer with MediaCom and co-author of Belonging and The Glass Wall.  We talk to Sue about the Echo Chamber, how inclusion is not a Zero-Sum game, and how egos fit into creating belonging at work.

We are very excited to meet with Sue Unerman, Chief Transformation Officer with Mediacom, to discuss her best selling book Belonging - The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion and Equality at Work.  Sue co-authors the book with Kathryn Jacob and Mark Edwards.  Sue is also the co-author of The Glass Wall, a collection of success strategies for women at work.  This is Part 1 of our conversation with Sue.

This episode is sponsored by Y5 Creative www.Y5Creative.com

In this episode we speak with Debbie Pearmain of OneStopHR to dig into the reasons why Targeted Gender Recruitment works and how companies can implement this strategy in all of their recruiting and promotion campaigns. Debbie has worked with CEOs and leadership teams for over 25 years at more than 250 companies. She has been facilitating organizational and leadership transformation projects with Accenture, Global Knowledge, One Stop HR and Morneau Shepell. Debbie is an excellent facilitator, coach and strategic thinker. She helps clients view problems as opportunities for growth and change and creates breakthrough strategies that help people and organizations achieve their full potential.

Thank to our sponsor Y5 Creative for their generous and ongoing support of our show.  Find out more at www.y5creative.com

In this episode we talk with Patrick Reynolds from Boyden Executive Search about his experiences recruiting for leadership roles in the construction and engineering industries.  Patrick provides some great insights into why companies should be including women in their leadership recruitment strategies and how to start that process.