Leadership, Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability across industries
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Discussion with leaders in Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability across industries; to share the success stories, the challenges that they have overcome, and to inspire the next generation of leaders.
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Centered Leadership - Lead with impact, resilience, and fulfillment to your life!
November 28, 2022 14:49 - 21 minutes - 12.5 MBWIL Podcast Series: Centered Leadership - Lead with impact, resilience, and fulfillment to your life! In this episode, Sandra Shime and Elsje Riani discuss “Centered Leadership” with Jody Allison, the VP of Transformation at Algonquin Power & Utilities. Jody has a wealth of leadership experience, was a VP at National Grid before, and just received the Women Who Spark award from Utility2030. Through the five pillars of Centered Leadership i.e. Meaning, Framing, Connecting, Engaging, and Ene...
Navigating Your Career In Today's World, Adapting To Thrive and Be Successful At Any Age.
October 25, 2022 22:57 - 17 minutes - 12.5 MBWIL Podcast Series: Navigating your career in today's world, adapting to thrive and be successful at any age. In this episode, Bonnie Marcus and Elsje Riani, discuss how to navigate your career. Bonnie's advice is suitable for those of you who work in the corporations, want to switch to new careers, or run your own entrepreneurship. The right strategies and attitude will help you to transform, thrive, and be successful at what you are doing at any age. Bonnie Marcus was an executive in the...
Agile - The Core Framework & Navigating The Challenges to Lead a Successful Project & Transformation.
September 19, 2022 20:49 - 29 minutes - 19.7 MBWIL Podcast Series: Agile - The Core Framework & Navigating The Challenges to Lead a Successful Project & Transformation. This episode discusses: Why Agile is important going to the future, Why Leaders need to change themselves first before transforming their team to be Agile, Why culture plays a key role in the transformation, and What kind of skills that leaders look when hiring for Agile team. For this discussion, Elsje Riani, speaks with Peter Ruppert, Hydro One Director of Enterprise ...
Strategy and Sustainability Innovation in Gas, Water, Energy & the next trend .. Hydrogen
April 26, 2022 20:52 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBWIL Podcast Series: Strategy and Sustainability Innovation in Gas, Water, Energy & the next trend .. Hydrogen This is another exciting episode on Sustainability. This time, Elsje Riani speaks with Ariel Bautista about the 3 pillars of sustainability, innovations in the utility space, strategies towards the low-carbon economy, and career options in this dynamic field. Ariel is currently the Sustainability Director at Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. Ariel has 15+ years of experience in lea...
Show Up, Step Up, Speak Up
April 21, 2022 18:56 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBIn this episode, Cecilia Lui and Elsje Riani discuss the importance of Cross-Cultural competency, career management using the “Show Up, Step Up, Speak Up” strategy, Brene Brown’s Dare to Lead, and strategy to hone your Leadership skills. Cecilia is the founder and director of ILIA Connect, who consults, coaches, trains, mentors and teaches across Communication, Intercultural Competence-Inclusion, and personal development. Cecilia is also a Global Ambassador for United Nation Sustainable De...
“Debunking Linguistic Bias & Building a Linguistic-Inclusive Work Environment”
April 07, 2022 20:03 - 23 minutes - 14.5 MBWomen in Leadership Foundation Toronto - U.S: a podcast with Bonnie Gross - ç In this episode, Bonnie Gross and Elsje Riani discuss linguistic bias: how to communicate effectively despite language barriers and what you can do as a leader to build a linguistic inclusive work environment. Bonnie is the president of Speech Science, a company with offices in Toronto and New York, devoted to training leaders and aspiring leaders to become dynamic, influential-speakers and communicators. She sha...
Climate Outlook and ESG Leadership
February 23, 2022 14:02 - 12 minutes - 8.96 MBWomen in Leadership Foundation Toronto - U.S: a podcast with Sarah Keyes on "Climate Outlook and ESG Leadership" In this episode, Sarah Keyes and Gayathri Kalyansundar, discuss climate outlook and leadership in this area. We will also learn about Sarah's career path and advice for those looking to have career in the ESG (environment, social, and governance) space, the important of diversity in climate innovation, and the Glasgow climate conference, COP 26. Sarah Keyes is the CEO of ESG Glo...
Beyond the Password: Identity & Access Management
January 20, 2022 13:00 - 11 minutes - 11 MBWomen in Leadership Foundation Toronto - U.S: a podcast with June Leung on "Beyond the Password: Identity & Access Management." In this episode, June Leung and Kristina Au, demystify the field of Cybersecurity and specifically, IAM (Identity and Access Management). Technical skill is not the end-all and be-all to get oneself into a highly technical career. In many cases, individuals do not realize opportunities are readily in front of them. Genuine interests in a subject and having an inq...
Breaking the “Concrete” Ceiling for Women of Color
January 10, 2022 13:57 - 17 minutes - 10.7 MBWomen in Leadership Foundation Toronto - U.S: a podcast with Wanda Brackins on "Breaking the “Concrete” Ceiling for Women of Color". In this episode, Wanda Brackins and Farhana Mahbub, discuss what breaking the “concrete” ceiling means for Women of Color - from taking charge of your own career and strategically taking stretch assignments to recognizing the barriers to getting promoted…sometimes it is worth taking chances and being comfortable with uncomfortable situations that will push you...
The Race to Zero in Contact Center - Segment #2
December 17, 2021 00:43 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBWomen in Leadership Foundation Toronto - U.S: a podcast with Katy Cook on "The Race to Zero in Contact Center Operation". 🔸In this segment, Katy Cook and Elsje Riani, continue their discussion on the “Race to Zero in the “Contact Center". In this segment, we will learn how technology has influenced the evolution of the Contact Center, strategies to response to the social media challenges, and trending from the customer adoption perspective. In addition to these, we will also learn about the...
The Race to Zero in Contact Center
December 07, 2021 13:57 - 9 minutes - 8.41 MBWomen in Leadership Foundation Toronto - U.S: a podcast with Katy Cook on "The Race to Zero in Contact Center Operation". 🔸In this episode, Katy Cook and Elsje Riani, discuss the “Race to Zero in the Call Center or “Contact Center”. We will learn what this concept means, discuss the ever-changing client landscape and how operations within the call centres has evolved over the last few years. Katy Cook is the Liberty Utilities Director of Transformation, Customer Operation Strategy, whose ...
Unlearning & Relearning
November 23, 2021 14:00 - 10 minutes - 10 MBWomen in Leadership Foundation Toronto - U.S: a podcast with Aninditta Savitry on Unlearning & Relearning. 🔸 Alvin Toffler says: “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” 🔸In this episode, Aninditta Savitry and Elsje Riani discuss the importance of Unlearning and Relearning for leaders so that they can lead successfully in this ever-changing market demand. Aninditta is the Chief Operating Offi...
The Future of Work - Part 3 (final episode)
November 08, 2021 13:40 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBPodcast Part 3: Last and final episode with Peter Chow 🔸 In this episode, Peter Chow and Farhana Mahbub discuss what Future of Work means for the next generation of leaders, how do you remain curious and land your next role via networking in a virtual setting. Peter is a Risk Manager by trade and innovator by title. He finds boring simple solutions for really hard, weird problems, and weird solutions to really easy, boring problems 🙌🏽 🔸 Curious? Then listen in 🎧 to this podcast for some gr...
The Future of Work - Part 2
October 27, 2021 11:57 - 9 minutes - 8.58 MBWomen in Leadership Foundation Toronto - U.S: second podcast with Peter Chow on Future of Work and it’s Impact on Women 🔸 In this episode, Peter and Farhana discuss how this new form of “presentism” can be made fair to women and visible minorities who may need broader flexibilities and key considerations. Peter is a Risk Manager by trade and innovator by title. He finds boring simple solutions for really hard, weird problems, and weird solutions to really easy, boring problems 🙌🏽 🔸 Curious...
The Future of Work - Part 1
October 17, 2021 17:24 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBWomen in Leadership Toronto - U.S podcast: Defining the new norm and future of work with Peter Chow. 🔸 In the inaugural launch of our Chapter podcast, we had a chat with Peter Chow, Director of Innovation, RBC on innovation enablement and the future of work. Peter is a Risk Manager by trade and innovator by title. He finds boring simple solutions for really hard, weird problems, and weird solutions to really easy, boring problem. 🔸 Curious? Then listen in 🎧 to this podcast for some great ...
The Future of Work
October 17, 2021 17:24 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBWomen in Leadership Toronto - U.S podcast: Defining the new norm and future of work with Peter Chow. 🔸 In the inaugural launch of our Chapter podcast, we had a chat with Peter Chow, Director of Innovation, RBC on innovation enablement and the future of work. Peter is a Risk Manager by trade and innovator by title. He finds boring simple solutions for really hard, weird problems, and weird solutions to really easy, boring problem. 🔸 Curious? Then listen in 🎧 to this podcast for some great ...