Guelph-Wellington Women Leaders and The Glass Ceiling

All are invited to celebrate International Women's Day in a presentation and discussion of leadership, mentorship and an equal future.

This webinar will highlight the results of CESI's project that interviewed women* leaders in Guelph and Wellington about the barriers and opportunities they have experienced on their journey to positions in various leadership roles. It will also feature a performance by a spoken word poet and a panel discussion on the role of mentorship, with four local women* leaders in the Guelph/Wellington community. All attendees will be invited to participate in the conversation around mentorship.

This event is being brought to you by The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute/The Research Shop at U of G, CFUW Guelph, Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis and the Zonta Club of Guelph.

The event agenda is as follows:

• Welcome
• Research Presentation
• Break
• Spoken Word Performance
• Mentorship Panel & Community Discussion
• Closing Remarks

*Our definition of women encompasses cisgender women, transwomen, genderqueer women, two-spirit, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people who identify as women.

This event will take place online using Zoom. An email containing the Zoom link will be sent to the email you used to register for the event 2 days prior to the event as well as 2 hours prior to the event start.