Join us for an inspiring webinar discussing careers in sustainability, growth in the industry, changes that have been made and those that are still needed.

About this event

There are many different jobs within the sustainability and green jobs industry. The ever-changing diversity of this field makes it incredibly flexible to those with many different backgrounds.

Join our panel discussion with industry experts to explore the industry of sustainability and the growing career opportunities within. Local BC residents with experience across the field will share their insights, career background and how the world of sustainability continues to evolve.

Meet our speakers:

Alex Johansen - Visual Environmental Educator and Sustainability Curator

Alex is a visual environmental educator and sustainability curator with seven years of experience in interpretation and science education. With a M.A.Ed in Urban Environmental Education looking at the intersection of environmental justice and the urban landscape, Alex has collaboratively managed program development, exhibit curation and content creation on topics from stormwater to risky play. Her interests lie in facilitating placemaking, especially as it connects to the history of a place, and community climate resilience. Alex’s intentional approach to projects and research background, combined with a love of whimsy, ensure unique, engaging products. 

Michelle Austin - Impact Strategy Consultant

As an Impact Strategy Consultant, Michelle is an enthusiastic disrupter to business-as-usual. She is able to critically examine the big challenges faced by today’s society, while daring to demonstrate how regenerative solutions are possible here and now. Her background is in food sustainability, which has bolstered her ability to align climate justice with economic objectives, and has prepared her for the work needed to seed impact and cultivate its growth! With less than a decade left on the climate clock, Michelle is eager to help big and small businesses be a force for good.

Lina Gomez - Director of Sustainability & Solutions

Lina works as the Director of Sustainability & Solutions at Debrand Services. From recommerce through to fiber reclamation, she supports Debrand’s clients in identifying next or end of life solutions for their products. Lina works closely with clients to develop value recovery strategies tailored to their brand, sustainability objectives, and garment materiality. Prior to her role at Debrand, Lina spent several years working in international trade and logistics. Outside of work, you can find Lina running, biking, or split boarding in the North Shore mountains with her Border Collie, Cooper.

Meet our moderator:

Ky Sargeant

Ky is a 5th year HR/Entrepreneurship student who has dedicated her time to studying and furthering equity, diversity, and inclusion in business. She is actively involved in assisting administration at the UBC Sauder School of Business on EDI issues and created new services to support other LGBTQ2+ students. Outside of their studies, they facilitate education sessions on inclusive culture and gender diversity in the workplace.

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Join us for an interactive workshop that will inspire you to achieve your next career goals. This event is in collaboration with ShEvalesco.

About this event

In this 1.5 hour workshop, we will dive into how to make "the ask" at work, and how to handle difficult conversations in workplace. Your next step to a career advancement might be asking to take on more opportunities at work; it might be asking for a raise after working at the same position for a while; it might be how to handle your next performance review or how to share your knowledge in a group meeting. Hands-on and interactive in nature, we will examine each of these topics through a strength-based lens.

Can’t wait to see you there!

ShEvalesco (derived from the Latin word Evalesco meaning to increase in strength, to prevail and to be worth) is a non-profit serving female identified and non-binary youth ages 12-30. The ShEvalesco mission is to empower youth with knowledge, strategies and tools to confidently navigate life, exploring life skills critical to personal and professional success. Founded in 2017, ShEvalesco has worked with over 1500 youth across Canada, encouraging each and every person to be bold, build resilience, and know their worth.

Speaker Bio:

Ali McKenzie is the founder and Executive Director of ShEvalesco. She holds a BSc. in Life Sciences from Queen’s University and an MSc. in Occupational and Environmental Health from UBC. Ali gained professional experience in industrial hygiene and occupational cancer surveillance before moving on to software professional services consulting for a global EH&S software leader. Mentorship, training and empowerment of youth has always played a significant role in Ali’s workplace and volunteer endeavours. In 2017, Ali took this passion and turned it into a mechanism for change through the inception of ShEvalesco.

This event will be online. Tickets are free for this YWiB Vancouver Chapter Event. Get your ticket now!

Join us for an interactive workshop that will inspire you to achieve your next career goals. This event is in collaboration with ShEvalesco.

About this event

In this two hour workshop, we will dive into how to get a step ahead, and what that means for you. Your step ahead might be expanding your network through informational interviews; it might be battling those pesky thinking traps that threaten to hold you back; it might be how to go after that wage increase that you deserve. Hands-on and interactive in nature, we will examine each of these topics through a strength-based lens.

Can’t wait to see you there!

ShEvalesco (derived from the Latin word Evalesco meaning to increase in strength, to prevail and to be worth) is a non-profit serving female identified and non-binary youth ages 12-30. The ShEvalesco mission is to empower youth with knowledge, strategies and tools to confidently navigate life, exploring life skills critical to personal and professional success. Founded in 2017, ShEvalesco has worked with over 1500 youth across Canada, encouraging each and every person to be bold, build resilience, and know their worth.

Speaker Bio:Ali McKenzie is the founder and Executive Director of ShEvalesco. She holds a BSc. in Life Sciences from Queen’s University and an MSc. in Occupational and Environmental Health from UBC. Ali gained professional experience in industrial hygiene and occupational cancer surveillance before moving on to software professional services consulting for a global EH&S software leader. Mentorship, training and empowerment of youth has always played a significant role in Ali’s workplace and volunteer endeavours. In 2017, Ali took this passion and turned it into a mechanism for change through the inception of ShEvalesco.

This event will be online. Tickets are free for this YWiB Vancouver Chapter Event. Get your ticket now!

Networking is centred on creating win-win alliances where all parties provide mutual value. As the world of work continues to shift in unprecedented ways, we need to focus on how we can utilize our existing network, whether physical or digital, and continue to grow our networks to succeed towards our goals. Meeting people, the right people, during a pandemic is hard enough so growing your network is especially tricky right now.

Join us as we host a free, virtual webinar with insightful and experienced panelists to discuss their experiences and top tips for creating a solid network, understanding yourself and your goals and selling yourself to benefit from your network.

Our guest speakers will discuss strategies and proven tactics that help professionals and business womxn be their best selves and shine - every time!

Afterwards, we will divide into Breakout Rooms to network in small groups with a supportive community - when you win, we all win! You learn, make connections, and get yourself set up to level up your future.

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Meet our speakers:

• Angeza Mohammed: Principal Consultant at Angeza Consulting

Angeza Mohammed is the Founder of How did you learn to do that? where she also hosts the How did you learn to do that? Podcast. Angeza, a Career and Personal Development Coach focused on fulfillment, shares guidance and stories of people who have made small daily commitments to themselves, which has helped them discover their purpose, increase their feeling of fulfillment and become a higher version of themselves. Angeza offers tips, guidance and coaching to help you build that fulfilling life and career you have always dreamed of! 

You can connect with Angeza on instagram @howdidyoulearntodothat 

• Due to personal matters, Hanaa Wong Abdullah: Leader, Trainer, Coach will not be able to attend the event.

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IMPORTANT: All event participants must follow and respect our guidelines for safe space, which will be sent to the registered participants on the prior day.

This is a free event.  

What does an inclusive workplace actually look like? How does it feel to work in an inclusive workplace?

Diverse and inclusive workplaces not only lead to better business performance and growth, but also earn deeper trust and more commitment from their employees. As companies spending money on D & I initiatives and adding policies for diversity to their mandates, how can we help and support our colleagues and coworkers who feel underrepresented?

Join us as we host a panel of outstanding speakers talking about diversity and inclusion. As advocates for diversity and inclusion in the community, our panelists will be sharing their knowledge from their lived and professional experiences, leading discussions on diversity and inclusion initiatives, and inspiring you, aspiring leaders in business, to nourish inclusion in the workplace.

The panel will be followed by an open floor discussion for participants engage with the guest speakers. This event will be held live on Wednesday, February 10, from 6:00PM - 7:30PM (Pacific Time) via Zoom.

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Meet our panelists:

• Linnaea Kershaw: Marketing Communications Specialist - Race Face/Easton Cycling

• Kate Madden: Project Manager at Elementus Wealth Management.

• Doris Mak: Vice President at InterVISTAS Consulting

• Sarah-Audrey Mome E: Customer Solutions at Paypal | Creative Director for Steezy.filez

More speaker information coming soon!

IMPORTANT: All event participants must follow and respect our guidelines for safe space, which will be sent to registered participants on the day before.

This is a free event. Donations upon registration are welcome. All funds raised will go to the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC).

With the financial markets being in turmoil there’s a lot of panic surrounding investing. What should you do with your retirement fund? Is this a good time to start investing? Should I buy or sell?

If you are asking yourself any of these questions, you’ll want to join (an online chat/webinar) with investment coach, Anjali Pradhan, where she talks she’ll answer these questions and more on investing. She’ll also discuss why she decided to focus her efforts on teaching women specifically to be DIY investors & why it’s one of the most life changing things a woman can do.

Anjali is an investment coach to women through her business Dahlia Wealth. She teaches women to invest their money so that they can grow their wealth & live their best lives. Her services are offered via a unique online program designed specifically for women. Her goal is to financially empower 5,000 women in the next 5 years. Anjali holds a B.Comm and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She is on IG: @dahlia_wealth. Sign up for her free class here: www.dahliawealth.com.

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Are you prepared to navigate your next career moves in the ever-changing world? COVID-19 brought unprecedented changes to the job market. How can you take on the new challenges and stand out? Join YWiB Vancouver on October 22 at 6:30pm (online) for our Resumes & Recruitment in an Ever-changing World event and get inspired on how to network in the digital world, perfect resumes and practice skills in job searching!

This month, we have guest speakers from various industries (consulting, technology, etc.) to share their insights. You will also have a chance to practice networking in a digital world. Please note that this event will be recorded!

We are excited to introduce our amazing speakers:

- Doris Mak: Vice President at InterVISTAS Consulting

- Sadaf Khatibi: Technical Recruiter at TEKsystems

- Jennifer Parry: Regional Manager, Investment and Retirement Planning with RBC Royal Bank of Canada

More to be updated soon!

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till feeling like you haven’t found a solid routine that maintains your physical and mental well-being? Join us on June 29th for a wellness session with Stress Coach & Nutritionist, Nicole Porter. Get your healthy routine back on track!

Nicole Porter is a Stress Coach and Wellness educator. She is also a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Healthy Weight Loss Coach, Personal Trainer, and Pilates Coach, with training in mindfulness-based stress reduction and behaviour change.

Through Workplace Wellness Programs, Private & Group Coaching, and online courses like The 8 Weeks to Awesome Wellness Challenge, Nicole helps busy, stressed out professionals mindfully conquer to Top 10 unhealthy habits that chronically stress out their bodies and prevent optimal health, mindset and productivity.

Having overcome her own health challenges with natural therapies, Nicole combines personal experience with formal education to provide a passionate, unique, realistic, empowering and holistic approach to wellness.

We look forward to seeing you there!!

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Are you wondering how work will look like post-Covid? There are new challenges to adapt to, and new opportunities emerging. Please join us on June 18th to find out! Our amazing speaker Karin Tischler will talk about the changes when going back to work!

Karin Tischler is the founder of Emily’s Path Consulting, promoting flexible working methods to create a more diverse workforce. She is an advocate, speaker and podcast host of #JobsharingAndBeyond – talking to international experts about job-sharing, reduced work hours, father networks, professionals returning to paid work and much more. A returner herself with a Masters from the University of Oxford and a focus on professional research, Karin utilizes her European & German background to raise awareness of this untapped part of the workforce and to share innovative solutions. She is also a co-host of LinkedInLocal in Vancouver, a global volunteer initiative to organize networking events focused on human connections. 

Please note this event will be recorded!

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With the financial markets being in turmoil there’s a lot of panic surrounding investing. What should you do with your retirement fund? Is this a good time to start investing? Should I buy or sell?

If you are asking yourself any of these questions, you’ll want to join Investing in Volatile Times webinar with investment coach, Anjali Pradhan, where she talks she’ll answer these questions and more on investing. She’ll also discuss why she decided to focus her efforts on teaching women specifically to be DIY investors & why it’s one of the most life changing things a woman can do.

Anjali is an investment coach to women through her business Dahlia Wealth. She teaches women to invest their money so that they can grow their wealth & live their best lives. Her services are offered through a unique online program designed for women which includes group coaching. She started her career in London, England working for many of the big established banks like Goldman Sachs & HSBC. Her goal is to financially empower 5,000 women in the next 5 years. Anjali is holds a B.Comm and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

This even has been rescheduled to June 16th, we are truly sorry for the last minute postpone. We are concerned about our speaker Anjali's health and wish her a speedy recovery.

Please note that this webinar will be recorded.

How to sign up:

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Every person has adopted a different strategy in how they support the people in their community. Some focus on reaching out to their loved ones, some focus on giving their time to others by offering services and others focus on making sure they stay healthy so they can rejoin their loved ones.

Join YWiB Vancouver on May 28th at 6:30pm for our webinar, Frontline Perspectives: How Essential Workers are Experiencing COVID-19 and How we can Help.

Get inspired by healthcare practitioners, Downtown Eastside workers and other essential workers as they share their own and their communities' experience these past few months.

We'll discuss the changes that have been made and the challenges and opportunities they have presented to the people they serve. Please note that this event will be recorded!

We have amazing panelists for this webinar!

Jessica Briggs, Resident Doctor in Family Medicine with Fraser Health

Jessica is originally from Vancouver Island and earned her BSc(Dist) in Linguistics from the University of Victoria before starting medical school at UBC. She completed her MD last year and became a Family Medicine resident with the UBC Vancouver-Fraser Program, based largely at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster. Jessica was this year's recipient of the BC College of Family Physicians' Dr. Manoo and Jean Gurjar Award, which recognizes one male and one female physician who have demonstrated excellence throughout their Family Medicine training. She has a particular interest in rural medicine and plans to locum in small communities across BC after completing her residency next year.

Martyna Kamela, Occupational Therapist with Vancouver Coastal Health

 Martyna is an Occupational Therapist (OT) working both in the community and in hospital. As an OT, her goal is to optimize the abilities of her clients to achieve positive performance in their activities of daily living - which can range from self-care, productivity and leisure pursuits. She works to collaborate with clients to build on their capacities and strengths so that they can participate in their meaningful areas of life, even in the face of adversity.

Emma McFarlane, Outreach Worker with City of Vancouver's Homelessness Services

In her role with the City of Vancouver's Homelessness Services team as an Outreach Worker, Emma works mainly in our outreach office that serves folks who are homeless or precariously housed. We help clients to access more secure housing, health care services, sources of income, identification, and act in an advocacy role wherever else possible. She studied Public Health at SFU although she didn’t think she would end up working in this community, accepting those who call it home and encouraging others to do the same was always important to her. 

Lucia Woolgar, Leadership Development Coordinator with Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House

Lucia is  passionate about working with people and social justice. She currently works at the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House as the Leadership Development Coordinator. She coordinates a project called Let's Speak Up! that aims to shift the power dynamics that exist in decision making spaces in the Downtown Eastside. She works with community leaders and partner organizations to build capacity in the neighbourhood surrounding community governance. However, her role has changed drastically during this pandemic. Her focus is now on food security in the neighbourhood so her days involve cooking and serving food. She loves the human interactions that she has in her role.

Laura Gibbins, Occupational Safety Officer with WorkSafeBC

Laura has worked in the health and safety profession for 35 years for a variety of employers and in different roles within the scope of health and safety. She started off as an occupational health nurse with Canada Post Office and the City of Vancouver doing both occ. health and safety when understanding of safety was quite minimal. In the 1990s, she worked in the health care sector for the Providence Health Authority and then decided to go back to school and get her diploma in occupational health and safety. She then went on to work with the Vancouver Aquarium. That was one of the most rewarding and interesting positions she has had in her career. She spent 7 years with them along with opening up her own consulting company. Through her own company then with a partnership in another company, she expanded their scope of health and safety to include construction, disability management, industrial hygiene and teaching both to employers and at BCIT. And now she has been working as a prevention officer (occupational safety officer) for WorkSafeBC for the past 10 years. Her day is unpredictable but it’s a very rewarding job due to the variety of employers and industries she works with and the opportunity to continuously learn about subjects she would never have thought she would need to know.

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Considering a career in the STEM industry? Wondering what that could look like? 

Join YWiB Vancouver on April 23rd at 6:30pm for our first online webinar, "Inside the STEM Industry: a Woman's Perspective in the Current Climate". 

Get inspired by recruiters, engineers and project managers working in the industry and ask questions!

We'll discuss the endless possibilities of this dynamic sector and what it looks like during these unprecedented times. Please note that this event will be recorded!

We are proud to introduce our speakers!

Nicola Cohen

Nicola is a Project Manager at JBR Construction in Vancouver and has spent the last three years building affordable housing projects in the Lower Mainland. With a degree in civil engineering from Ryerson University, Nicola started her career in engineering design, working on restoration and structural design of buildings, and found the dynamic aspects of the active construction project phase to be very interesting and exciting. After taking some time away to travel through South America, Australia and Asia, Nicola moved back to Vancouver and joined a small general contracting company which was starting out on their first  multi-family residential project. Nicola loves working collaboratively with the many players involved through design and construction, the problem solving challenges that come with the job and has really enjoyed seeing the positive community impact at the completion of these projects.

Nicole Mateo

Nicole graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Astrophysics specializing in academic research. However, she did not pursue a career in academia after her undergrad and instead leveraged the most important skillset that she acquired as a research student to join the workforce: data analysis. Nicole moved back to Vancouver and managed to get an entry level data management role at TELUS in 2017. Since then, she has worked her way up to become her team’s business intelligence prime and one of the subject matter experts in her organization.

Zahra Pirani

Zahra is an environmental engineer with 12 years of post-graduate experience. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering. Zahra’s main area of focus is contaminated site assessment and remediation; however, she has had several years of exposure to related disciplines such as geotechnical engineering and upstream oil and gas development. She is President and Conference Chair for the Science Advisory Board for Contaminated Sites (SABCS), and is a Director for the Young Professionals in Energy (Vancouver Chapter). Zahra received the Young Professionals Award for excellence in consulting business practices in 2017.

Sadaf Khatibi

Sadaf was born and raised in Tehran, Iran and embarked on her Canadian journey with her family in August of 2008. Sadaf has a bachelors of Sciences in Psychology from UBC's Okanagan campus. Sadaf has been involved within various industries from academic, retail, restaurant to mental health, addiction, cancer treatment and now the corporate world of IT staffing. She is passionate about helping individuals achieve their goals no matter how big or small the may be. Sadaf gets inspired and excited when she hears and learn about someone else's dreams and achievements. And in her spare time or in between everything else she is supposed to be doing, Sadaf can be found dancing around, whistling random tunes, and catching up with a friend over the phone or video:)

The video link to access the online webinar will be sent to your registration email a few days before the event.

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Are you prepared to start a year of adventure and growth in your career? Join YWiB on February 20th for our Kick Off Your New Year & Career Right event and get inspired on how to negotiate contracts, perfecting resumes and skills in job searching!

We are excited to introduce our amazing speakers:

- Whitney Friesen, Manager, MBAN Careers of UBC Sauder School of Business

- Yanna Baiman. Account Manager of Apex Systems

- Natalie Kaye, Talent Acquisition Manager of Colliers International

- Nicole Kinney, Head of Technical Talent and Podcast Host at Procurify

- Natasha Jeshani, Vice President, HR & Recruitment Consultant of Career Contacts

Stay tuned for more details!

Light refreshments will be provided

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