iwd2021

2021 marks the 110^th year since International Women’s Day was first recognized by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland. It has since become recognized worldwide as an opportunity to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, as groups come together to rally for gender parity.

This year, BlackBerry sat down with a panel of exceptional women leaders from within its own business – with a combined 46 years’ of experience at BlackBerry alone – to discuss how the landscape of their careers has shifted since they began working; from collaborating with female management in a predominately male environment to the importance of mentors and sponsors.

These fantastic women from across the BlackBerry business include Yasmine Aggarwal, Director, Enterprise Software Testing, Jennifer Bramhill, Vice President, Employee Relations & HR Business Partner, Pooja Kohli, Vice President, Product Management and Karen Murdock, Senior Director, Legal Counsel.

Do you think we should have special days or month like, International Women’s Day or Women’s History Month.  I realize this may be a triggering question for some, and people will be on both sides.  Some will say absolutely more awareness needs to take place and this is a call to action.  Others, including many women, believe these days are not needed and can even hurt the people they are trying to help.  Listen to this episode where we will discuss this polarizing topic in detail including my own experience, changing opinion, and what you can do to celebrate these events. 

"Women have accounted for nearly 56% of the workforce exits since the start of the pandemic... across all industries and all professions".

This IWD2021, we look through new research about the challenges facing women in the profession today with Shelly Frazier, a Senior Manager for AICPA & CIMA's Diversity & Inclusion team. Shelly is also staff liaison for the AICPA Women’s Initiatives Executive Committee and will be appearing in the forthcoming March 23rd 'Forging The Path' webinar (AICPA & CIMA member discount applies).

• the effects of the pandemic that threaten the progress made by women,
• the new challenges faced by professional women in the USA.
• the additional barriers it creates that are unique to them.
• choosing to challenge - or not.

Our Guest. Connect with Shelly Frazier via LinkedIn here.

Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free and paid-for resources to implement in your own team or organisation.

• Explore this topic on future.aicpa.org.
• See Shelly's blog post for IWD2021 here.
• Read the "20 Most Powerful Women in Accounting" Report
• Consider this 'Forging the Path' webinar (paid for).
• See our IWD21 video.

Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email.

Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News.

About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful.

Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here.

©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

"Women have accounted for nearly 56% of the workforce exits since the start of the pandemic... across all industries and all professions".

This IWD2021, we look through new research about the challenges facing women in the profession today with Shelly Frazier, a Senior Manager for AICPA & CIMA's Diversity & Inclusion team. Shelly is also staff liaison for the AICPA Women’s Initiatives Executive Committee and will be appearing in the forthcoming March 23rd 'Forging The Path' webinar (AICPA & CIMA member discount applies).

• the effects of the pandemic that threaten the progress made by women,
• the new challenges faced by professional women in the USA.
• the additional barriers it creates that are unique to them.
• choosing to challenge - or not.

Our Guest. Connect with Shelly Frazier via LinkedIn here.

Resources. Use these links to find out more about this topic, or to access free and paid-for resources to implement in your own team or organisation.

• Explore this topic on future.aicpa.org.
• See Shelly's blog post for IWD2021 here.
• Read the "20 Most Powerful Women in Accounting" Report
• Consider this 'Forging the Path' webinar (paid for).
• See our IWD21 video.

Share. Know someone who should hear this podcast? Click on these links to automatically share this episode with colleagues and friends. Recommend it to your LinkedIn connections, send to Twitter, auto-share on your Facebook page, or simply tell someone via email.

Social. Use #GoBeyondDisruption, @AICPANews or @CIMA_News.

About Our Podcast. These conversations with expert guests are recorded by different members of the AICPA & CIMA team from our offices around the world. While the sound quality may vary, we hope that the insights will be consistently useful.

Get in touch. How did you discover our podcast? Where do you listen? What would you like to hear more of? Finance pro or not, we're keen to know what you think. Email us here.

©2018-2020 Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA & CIMA)

Dr. Jen and Regina talk to...molly pockets? No, that's not right. Listen as they share practical advice on how to help women at work during a pandemic. Hello Dolly!

Check out the report here: https://womenintheworkplace.com

For women's history month, Rachel is sharing 10 things you can do for women to make the future better than today. Cause who runs the world?? De colonize the bookshelf and buy some cookies, because it all matters. From referring to celebrating, here's what you can do.

Check out ThriftBooks online HERE!

Browse the collection of speeches at Speaking While Female.

Read the article Deeper In Debt: Women and Student Loans.

Read the 1996 Nora Ephron Wellesley College commencement speech HERE.

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Check out Rachel's TEDx Talk - How to Burnout and Be Successful 

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Episode 97 - Can You Hear Me Now? with Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Best Selling Author

Celina Caesar-Chavannes is a Transformative Leader, Organisational Psychology, Strategy & EDI Consultant. She is an International speaker, best selling author and entrepreneur and prior politician.  

She is an Executive Coach and helps business leaders with the tools, techniques and motivation to transform and maximise their potential, establish a vision for moving forward, develop a plan for implementation and ultimately, meet personal and professional goals.

Celina Caesar-Chavannes became the first Black person elected to represent the federal riding of Whitby, Ontario in Canada.

At the time she hadn't really thought about the fact that Ottawa wasn't designed for someone like her and as a result she found herself both making waves and breaking down and she paid the price for speaking up for her community and holding firm to her principles.

Celina has now written both a memoir and leadership book: Can You Hear Me Now? published by Penguin Random House Canada and it is a funny, self-aware, poignant, confessional and fierce look at how failing badly and screwing things up completely are truly more powerful lessons in how to conduct a life than extraordinary success.

Celina is on a mission to help build a world where inclusion is real in all of her brilliance and boldness.

EP.97 - Can You Hear Me Now? with Celina Caesar-Chavannes 

- her personal story

- what inspired her to write her book

- what is transformational leadership

- what are her self care rituals

- tips on how to become confident speaker

- how to be your true authentic self

- how to share your own story, vulnerabilities, mistakes and all

- why making time to fill your own cup up is key to your mental health

- a real insight of issues facing black women and young teenage girls in Canada

Plus we talk about so much more of course....

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Jeanine McIntosh Menze was awarded her ‘wings of gold’ on June 24, 2005 and became the first Black female aviator in the 215-year history of the United States Coast Guard! In this episode of The Nine Oh Six Jeanine shares how her staying true to not only her why but her how helps her conquer fear in all walks of her life. She challenges us to cancel out the noise, especially the negative self talk that keeps ‘the only’s’ from seeking with clarity the light they were meant to shine in. She encourages us all to reach back and pull up another person as we continue to scale our leadership journeys.

In this episode of The Nine Oh Six, Sanhita Sen who works for the District Attorney’s Office of Philadelphia. shares how she is choosing to challenge systemic racism in the United States Justice system by helping Philadelphia launch a Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission.  She shares how this is the most important and challenging work she has ever done.

She deconstructs how her class, career, education and race motivate and fuel her passion for finding ‘individual justice’. She challenges with kindness on how we can be intentional in what we choose to challenge and how uncomfortable we are willing to get. She walks us through the power of being the opressor and being opressed and her continued journey to challenge the underlying power conversation which requires an investment in imagination.