Breaking Professional Barriers and Forging a Path Forward

Breaking Professional Barriers and Forging a Path Forward

Discover pathways to success in a collaborative environment, breaking down professional barriers and forging ahead toward career advancement

By SCWIST

Date and time

Fri, Jun 7, 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • 1 hour

In professional settings, the expectation to conform often means sacrificing our true voice, yet suppressing our true voice makes us uncomfortable and not feel like our authentic selves. 

If you find yourself masking your feelings to meet external expectations, it's important to ask yourself: What is my truth? Why do I feel the need to do this?

Understanding our identity and role in the world empowers us to navigate interactions, even with those who may make us feel inadequate or vulnerable.

Whether you're launching your career or are in a leadership role, this event will teach you simple strategies to gain insight into your own existence and equip you with valuable tools for addressing challenges in your professional journey. 

Learn how to overcome obstacles in your work routine, break down barriers in your climb up the corporate ladder or tackle any hindrances to success you currently face. 

Your journey to be your best self begins with self-discovery. Don't let fear hold you back! Register now to discover how you can foster continuous personal and professional development.

Speaker

Golddy Kaur has more than three decades of MedTech experience and held many positions, including executive leadership roles. She has experience across general business management, strategy development, commercial functions, operations, engineering, quality, regulatory & clinical research. She possesses a unique blend of Med-Tech industry subject knowledge and business/financial acumen.

As part of the executive leadership roles, she coached a diverse group of individuals and personalities. She has a proven track record in consistently delivering business results, bringing innovations globally through research to commercialization stages, developing talent, and building winning teams. She focuses on achieving personal greatness and finding greatness in others to achieve business goals.

Golddy has a Bachelor’s degree with a major in biology and physics from Ranchi University, India. She started her MedTech journey in 1990 at C. R. Bard, Mississauga. She continued her education by attending several professional development programs in Canadian and US Universities including the Executive Development Program at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Organized by

The Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology ( SCWIST) was founded in 1981 as a not-for-profit association aimed at encouraging women into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). SCWIST aims to support and promote the education of girls and women through programs and activities in partnership with the community.

SCWIST has a spectacular record of boosting the numbers, retention and status of women in the workplace by facilitating networking, mentoring and advocating woman-friendly policies.

SCWIST also highlights opportunities, achievements and positive messages for and about women in the field through raising public awareness and guiding policy implementation.

Our VALUES

Empower, Include, Inspire, Connect, Sustain

Our VISION

To create an environment where women and girls in Canada can pursue their interest, education, and careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) without barriers.

Our MISSION

We aim at realizing our values through:

  • Providing activities, mentorship, and leadership that support women and girls in accomplishing their dreams
  • Removing barriers and raising public awareness by promoting and advocating for inclusive policies and equitable practices in education, the workplace, and in government
  • Inspiring innovation and encouraging excellence through positive role models and outreach programs
  • Fostering connections through professional networks and programs we develop in partnership with the community
  • Boosting the numbers, retention, and status of women in the workplace by facilitating networking, mentoring, and advocating woman-friendly policies

Members include university undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, technicians, technologists, research scientists, professors, engineers, consultants, unemployed and retired women scientists.

Free