Breakfast of Champions in support of SickKids provides young professionals with the opportunity to have an intimate and informational breakfast with “champions” – influential community and business leaders from various fields. I was honoured to participate in this year’s virtual fireside chat, alongside champions Wes Hall, Executive Chairman and Founder…
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Understanding the equal pay principle begins at home
We know women are paid less than men for work of equal value. We also know women shoulder more household responsibilities than men. But here’s something I learned recently that I didn’t know: girls spend more time doing household chores than boys do, are paid less than boys for doing…
Resilience Requires Letting Go of Resentments
One of the qualities resilient people share is the ability to keep moving forward no matter the circumstances. In that respect, the story of Whitney Wolfe Herd is instructive. Wolfe Herd co-founded the dating app Tinder. You may have heard of Tinder. In 2014 she left the company, filed a…
You Have To Fail To Succeed
If you’re having one of those days when you feel like a failure—and who doesn’t have days like that?—I suggest you do a Google search for stories of famous people who failed before they succeeded. The Internet is full of such stories, and they’re guaranteed to buoy your spirits. From…
5 Key Ways To Empower Your Employees
I’ve never forgotten the way my first manager empowered her team. Even though I was just a rookie then, she made me feel so valued, I decided that if I became a leader I’d do everything within my power to empower mine. The benefits of employee empowerment have been well…
Resilience at Work: Why You Need it & How to Get It
We live in a workplace culture where uncertainty is the new normal and multiple demands are coming at us from every corner. Developing resilience has never been more important. Some experts believe that your stores of resilience are even more important than your education level in determining the degree to…
There’s No Time Like The Present To Pursue Your Goals
People put their goals on hold for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they delay because they’re waiting for the perfect moment. Sometimes they shut down because a door slammed in their face. Sometimes they stall because they’re afraid to fail. Whether you’ve put your goals on the back burner due…
You’re in Charge of Your Career
My mom wanted me to have choices in life, so from an early age she instilled the idea that if I wanted to achieve a goal, I had to do everything within my power to make that goal happen. I couldn’t just sit around waiting for life to happen to…
Visualization is Realization
When I was growing up, the idea of creating a vision board wasn’t in vogue the way it is today. If it had been, I assure you I’d have been all over it. In my own way, I was an early proponent of the technique; although, in my case, visualizing…
Lisa Lisson Addresses the DeGroote Women’s Professional Network On Learned Resilience
The DeGroote Women’s Professional Network recently invited Lisa to serve as keynote speaker at one of their events in Burlington, Ontario. In her speech, Lisa discussed how resilience is about nurturing your mind the same way you nurture your body with nutrition and exercise. She also shared that resilience isn’t…