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Ending the year on a positive note!!

For some time now, I have been observing a trend in what I read in the newspapers and other reports which implies things are moving in a positive direction for the women of the world. And it seems to be happening to women in every part of the world and in a huge variety of undertakings. This positive direction doesn’t mean women everywhere are living in the way we might like them to be, in terms of their daily life experience, far from it. It simply means in the words of Buffalo Springfield “Something’s happening here!” Something which gives me hope!! I thought sharing some of these hopeful glimmers with you would be a perfect way to say we have ...

Welcome to Walmart!!

The December issue of the Financial Post Magazine ("FPM") included a great article about the four women who comprise one half of the management team at Walmart Canada. This entity has 85,000 employees and 183 Walmart stores and 146 Supercenters which means by any measure, it's a major Canadian business enterprise.   The women are Shelley Broader CEO, Gale Blank, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Trudy Fahie, CEO and President of Walmart Canada Bank, and Emma Fox, Senior Vice-President of Marketing.  The FPM article tells a little of the story of their lives and how they ended up in their current roles and offers  some comments on leadership, mentorship and sponsorship and includes some great advice from each of them. It is well written ...