2017 Women of Influence
For our third annual survey of women making an impact on B.C., we honour those who support others’ success Ask a group of women that question, and you’ll probably get more answers than there are people in the room. That was...
In early 2014, Anne Stewart, then a partner at law firm Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, was feeling some angst. Approaching 65, the mandatory retirement age at her workplace, Stewart wasn’t quite ready to move away from her nearly four-decade...
A few years ago, Vancouver-based Glenn Ives attended a meeting with 22 of professional services firm Deloitte LLP’s senior managers at a regional office in Ottawa overlooking a golf course. “I was talking about how we needed to change things...
Mentorship roles: Women’s Executive Network; former president, Wired Woman SocietyShout out: “[She was] very helpful in providing real-life experience, not just from a career perspective but from an overall perspective. Family, career—[she was] really an open book….Through conversation and sharing...
Mentorship roles: Established a mentoring program as president of the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SWIST)Shout out: “When you have a mentor, I think it’s important that they’re willing to share the good and the bad, not only...
Mentorship roles: Advising and mentoring companies she invests in via Pique Fund and personally; Women in Leadership Foundation; Forum for Women Entrepreneurs; through alma mater University of WaterlooShout out: “She’s an investor personally in MuseFind, the company I run, and...
Mentorship roles: Founder and chair, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, VancouverShout out: “Christina has this story, I think it was when she was working for Goldman Sachs, and they had a meeting in L.A. and another meeting across the city, and...
On a rainy Sunday in September 2013, multitudes showed up at Queen Elizabeth Plaza in downtown Vancouver. They walked through an arch that had been blessed by a First Nations healer and set out for Concord Place, passing by drummers...
In early 2011, Donna Spencer, long-time artistic director of Vancouver’s Firehall Arts Centre, was thinking about how to produce a show using Leonard Cohen’s music. She had just called a director in Thunder Bay, Ontario, who had recently done a...
Laurel Douglas knows how crucial it is for women entrepreneurs to have female role models. “Women start businesses for slightly different reasons than men do,” says the CEO of the Kelowna-based Women’s Enterprise Centre. Although money is important, independence and...