By: Brené Brown Reviewed by: Susan MacKenzie The Premise: Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown is a timely book for today’s increasingly ‘us versus them’ tribal environment. Social connection has helped us survive as a species but people are increasingly isolated as perspectives are polarized (anything from politics, sexual harassment to child-rearing), many of us feel […]
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Roundtable Member Shana McEachren, Executive Coach, shared her perspective on how to build a kind culture. “As a leader, you have an opportunity to make a significant impact on your team. Your desire to create a culture of kindness and generosity is inspirational. While there may be some challenges, the potential benefits for you, your team,
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Roundtable Member Agatha De Santis, VP Human Resources at Indigo Books and Music, shared her perspective with our team on how to build a kind culture. “You owe it to yourself as a leader to be true to yourself, and build the team culture that creates value, grows people and makes people want to come
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Roundtable Member Gabriella O’Rourke, Group Practice Manager of the Commercial Litigation Group for Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG), shared her perspective with our team on how to maintain your network. The key to staying relevant and on other people’s radar is to make sure that when you do reach out to people you are conscious
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Roundtable Member Elliott Silverstein, Manager of Government Relations at CAA South Central Ontario (CAA SCO), shared his perspective with our team on how to maintain your network. To be truly successful, networking requires strategy, time investment and ongoing maintenance. READ MORE
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By: Bill Burnett and Dave Evans Reviewed by: Janey Piroli The Premise: Authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans have both achieved great success working in and around Silicon Valley since the 1970s. Working within the product design space of many businesses, from young start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, they gained ample expertise with the design thinking
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By: Porter Gale Reviewed by: Julie Melaschenko The Premise: Author Porter Gale’s story of her rise to her role as Director of Marketing for Virgin Atlantic is the jumping off point for an informative and in-depth review of how actively seeking and maintaining contacts can be the key to a successful and rewarding career. Your Network
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Roundtable Mentor, Bob Canuel shared his perspective with our team on how to tap into sponsors and mentors to move your career forward. “A mentor is a catalyst that helps you grow as a person and as a leader. A sponsor helps you action what it is that you want to do and ultimately translate
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Roundtable Mentor, Jennifer Campbell shared her perspective with our team on how to tap into sponsors and mentors to move your career forward. “Rather than focusing on a singular sponsor… focus on identifying and building a network of internal, senior champions/friends that will be sitting at the ‘grown-up table’ when those important conversations are being
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By: Eric Barker Reviewed by: Shelby Gobbo The Premise: Eric Barker challenges the traditional advice that we have been given throughout our lives and rallies the pros and cons, successes and failures and point-bank, cold, hard facts that have emerged from those who have chosen the ‘guided path’ and those who have taken the ‘alternative route.’
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Refer a colleague to a Roundtable Program and we will donate a percentage of any sales to support our Roundtable Bursary with Indspire, a national charity supporting Indigenous youth aspiring to post-secondary education. Our goal is to fund 215 young people in memory of the 215 children found in unmarked graves at the residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Reach out to Glain at groberts@goroundtable.com with your referral suggestions.
