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Leadership isn’t about waiting for permission—it’s about stepping up with confidence. Leaning into leadership is a high-impact program designed by and for women who are ready to take charge, build influence, and drive meaningful change in their organizations and industries.
Executive-level insights – Learn directly from top women leaders who have navigated challenges, broken barriers, and built lasting success.
Practical leadership strategies – From decision-making to negotiation, gain real-world tools to elevate your leadership.
Build your brand and influence – Position yourself for bigger opportunities and make your voice heard at the table.
Powerful network and mentorship – Connect with a community of ambitious, like-minded women and industry trailblazers.
This session cultivates executive presence and effective communication. Participants will explore the key pillars of effective leadership and assess their skills and challenges against proven leadership frameworks.
BUSINESS EXPERT: Jennie Coleman, President, Equifruit
JOURNALIST: Susan Krashinsky Robertson, Staff Reporter, The Globe and Mail
Session 2: Building bridges through allyship, alliances, mentorship,
and sponsorship to drive results
This session is designed to foster meaningful connections, break barriers, and drive impactful results. Participants will learn to build authentic alliances, cultivate mentorship relationships, and secure sponsorships to maximize and accelerate business results.
BUSINESS EXPERT: Jennifer Quinn, CEO, Nieuport Aviation
JOURNALIST: Dawn Calleja, Deputy Editor, Report on Business magazine, The Globe and Mail
This session is crafted to empower individuals in cultivating self-awareness, resilience, purposeful decision-making, and coaching skills. Participants will explore strategies for effective goal setting, priority management, and delegation. They will also build adaptability and resilience to lead high performing teams.
BUSINESS EXPERTS: Lori Bieda, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, North American Personal and Business Bank, BMO and Jill de Chavez, CEO and Owner, Briteweb
JOURNALIST: Sandra E. Martin, Standards Editor, The Globe and Mail
This session will focus on the art of leading teams through conflict and change. Participants will learn to inspire and motivate diverse individuals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
BUSINESS EXPERT: Marnie Rabinovitch Consky, CEO & Founder, The Thigh Society
JOURNALIST: April Fong, Deputy Editor, Personal Finance, The Globe and Mail
We are committed to supporting individuals from traditionally underrepresented groups within Canadian organizations and leadership teams, including but not limited to indigenous peoples, racialized groups, people with disabilities, and people from the 2SLGBTQI+ community.
For every course participant that enrolls from your organization or network, we will provide full sponsorship to another individual from an underrepresented group, either from your organization or another one of your choosing.
Email info@theglobeleadershipinstitute.com to book a one-on-one meeting or join a webinar to learn more.
Explore the fundamentals of leadership theory and practice, tailored to the experiences of women. Learn fundamental leadership concepts, practical approaches and proven frameworks for developing effective leadership skills and the confidence to advance in leadership roles.
Leaning into Leadership is designed by women, for women to center the goals, voices and particular experiences of women in today’s leadership landscape. This course focuses on gender-specific challenges and opportunities for women in leadership and provides space for the diverse experiences of women with intersectional identities.
Participants will engage with peers from across a range of industries, learn from expert facilitators, hear stories and gain insights from women leaders and Globe and Mail Journalists, in activity filled sessions designed to build both competence and confidence in leadership.
Marnie Rabinovitch Consky founded Thigh Society in 2009 to solve a common but often unspoken problem: thigh chafing. Frustrated by ineffective solutions like shapewear, men’s boxers, and messy creams, she designed a size-inclusive lineup of lightweight, sweat-wicking slip short underwear. Bootstrapped and strictly direct-to-consumer, Thigh Society has sold nearly 2M pairs worldwide and is recognized as the category creator and leader, offering solutions to chafing, sweating, and modesty. The brand has earned praise from The Today Show, Oprah Daily, and NY Times Wirecutter, while Marnie has been featured in Forbes, Nasdaq, and Business Insider for her commitment to comfort, inclusivity and destigmatizing sweat.
Irene Galea is a business reporter for The Globe and Mail's Report on Business, based in Toronto. Since joining The Globe in 2021, her coverage has included the telecommunications and cannabis industries, personal finance and real estate.
Her enterprise reporting has resulted in an immediate impact to Canadians' access to public information as part of the Rogers-Shaw takeover. As well, it has has highlighted inequality in telecommunications service in Iqaluit; held companies to account for unfulfilled corporate commitments to hire Ukrainian refugees; and shed light on the lasting impact of century-old real estate policies. Irene is part of a team of four Globe journalists reporting on the Black North Initiative CEO Pledge, a five-year commitment made by 400 Canadian CEOs to hire and promote more Black employees. She is a frequent contributor to The Globe's Amplify newsletter, which highlights female voices.
Prior to joining The Globe, Irene reported on business and real estate for the National Post and Financial Post, and wrote for the National Trust for Canada and the Canadian Museums Association. Her short documentary, Balance, was broadcast nationally by CBC as part of the Absolutely Canadian series. Irene has appeared as a guest on news boradcasts and The Globe's podcast to provide analysis of business stories, and as a moderator of live panel discussions.
Irene holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University, where she received the University Medal for her class. She is currently completing a Masters of Building History from the University of Cambridge, with a focus on medieval buildings and the evolution of Toronto's nineteenth-century bank architecture.
Jennie Coleman is the President and owner of Equifruit and a passionate entrepreneur driven by a desire to use business as a mechanism for poverty alleviation and community development. She is focused on growth as a means to increase impact on fruit growers and plantation workers. Since acquiring Equifruit in 2013, volumes — and thus impact — have grown 10 times.
She is a multilingual (EN, FR, DE, SP, dormant CH) communicator with extensive international experience, who is able to adapt to new cultures, industries, organizations and changing environments. She is comfortable managing risk and dealing with ambiguity. She leads her team with the vision of achieving “Global Fairtrade Banana Domination.” She works collaboratively with Equifruit’s Director, Sales & Marketing, and sets commercial strategy across geographic markets and products. She builds relationships with Fairtrade banana growers and leads the operations team to deliver quality fruit on time to customers.
Jennifer Quinn is the Incoming CEO at Nieuport Aviation. As an accomplished Executive, she brings public and private sector experience in strategy, commercial structuring and negotiations, infrastructure and real estate development, and risk advisory. Prior to joining Nieuport, Jennifer was a Partner and Government & Public Services Industry leader with Deloitte and also spent nearly 7 years in Senior roles at Infrastructure Ontario.
In 2024, she was awarded the Report on Business magazine Best Executive Award from the Globe and Mail in recognition of her impact to Nieuport’s business—notably, leading the operations team through the resumption of service following the pandemic and driving forward efforts in partnership with PortsToronto to deliver a U.S. Preclearance facility at the airport (expected late 2025). She was also named one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women of 2024 by the Women's Executive Network. She is passionate about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and in 2017 was the recipient of Start Proud’s Leaders to be Proud of – Professional Leadership award, recognizing excellence in the LGBTQ community.
Jennifer has an Honours Bachelor of Accounting from Brock University, a Master’s Certificate in Public Management from York University and is a Chartered Professional Accountant.
Stella Yeung is an award-winning senior technology executive with extensive experience in the financial services industry. As Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Stella is responsible for leading the engineering group that provides technology management to Scotiabank’s Global Banking and Markets, Global Finance and Treasury, and Global Risk Management divisions, including Anti-Money Laundering. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Stella came to Canada to study and graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Toronto.
For 30 years, Lori Bieda has used strategic data insights to guide Fortune 500 companies around the globe. But in a twist for a metrics-oriented executive, she makes a point to look well beyond the numbers. “If an analytical empath were a thing, that would capture how I think and lead,” she says. “I set out to help people get where they want to go—and to have a blast doing it.” In 2023, her AI expertise earned her BMO team the Digital Banker’s Global Retail Banking Innovation Award for outstanding machine learning initiative. Meanwhile, she oversees BMO’s “analytics university,” which the bank uses to rapidly scale up and teach staff across all disciplines of data and analytics. And she created ElleExcel Women’s Circle, which empowers women in STEM through webcasts, blogs and a match-up program.
Dawn Calleja is the Editor of The Globe and Mail’s national Report on Business magazine, where she oversees a mix of long-form features, programs such as Women Lead Here and Canada’s Top Growing Companies, and more. She has won numerous National Magazine Awards both as a writer and editor, and received The Globe and Mail’s George Brown Prize for Editing in 2020. She also helped launch SABEW Canada in 2014 and ran its prestigious Best in Business Canada awards program for eight years.
Jill de Chavez is the CEO and Owner of Briteweb, a B Corp certified, Living Wage certified creative agency offering web and brand services to organizations committed to social good. With over a decade of digital agency experience, she provides strategic and operational leadership to organizations dedicated to positive social impact. Her trajectory at Briteweb began in project management in 2019, where she quickly advanced through roles including Director of Delivery, Director of Operations, and Deputy Managing Director before assuming the position of Managing Director in 2022 and subsequently becoming the company's CEO and owner in 2024.
She has had the privilege of working with clients such as David Suzuki Foundation, BC Cancer Foundation, Start Early, Trust Her, Restore Justice, and Educare Learning Network, to name a few. De Chavez's leadership philosophy centers on collaborative vision-setting and empowering teams to actively participate in charting their course. She combines strategic acumen with a deep commitment to mission-driven work, consistently pushing boundaries in digital innovation while maintaining focus on social impact. Her approach has established Briteweb as a leading agency in the purpose-driven digital space, while fostering a workplace culture that prioritizes putting people-first, innovation, and inclusive growth.
Angela Pacienza is the Executive Editor at The Globe and Mail, where she’s responsible for delivering quality, audience-first journalism, as well as driving culture change to create a more nimble, inclusive and forward-thinking newsroom. She’s passionate about closing the gap between storytelling and audience, as well as devising new approaches to digital, print, audio and visual journalism. Angela’s leadership was recognized by invitations to participate in the Governor General Leadership Conference (2017), and Washington-based Online News Association’s Women’s Leadership Accelerator program (2018). She is a mentor and coach with Digital Women Leaders. She currently sits on the board of directors for the Canadian Journalism Foundation and the Online News Association.
April Fong is a senior editor with The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. She was previously Executive Editor of The Logic, where she helped oversee the publication's editorial strategy, led its daily newsletter to multiple SABEW Best in Business awards and was a frequent moderator in live events.
A former senior digital producer at BNN Bloomberg, April has also worked at the Financial Post and China Economic Review in Shanghai. She taught Business Reporting at her alma mater, Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication from 2021 to 2024.
Susan Krashinsky Robertson is a business reporter covering the retail sector in Canada.
In her 15 years with The Globe, Susan has covered issues such as the business implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shifts in the Canadian media landscape, the growing cost of cyberattacks for businesses, and the environmental impacts of plastic packaging, e-commerce, and food waste. Her work has appeared in Report on Business Magazine. Susan has also written for the Globe's Arts section, and was a finalist for a National Newspaper Award for her feature looking at the behind-the-scenes creation of Karen Kain’s Swan Lake.
In 2023, Susan was part of a team that won the Michener Award for excellence in Canadian public service journalism, for coverage of Hockey Canada’s response to sexual assault allegations against players.
Before joining The Globe and Mail in 2009, Susan worked as a freelance reporter contributing to CBC Radio, as well as publications including the Ottawa Citizen and the Montreal Gazette. During her studies toward a Masters degree in journalism at Carleton University, she participated in a program working at a radio station in Kigali, Rwanda. She has also lived in Osaka, Japan.
Sandra E. Martin is the Standards Editor at The Globe and Mail. After graduating from the TMU School of Journalism in 1992, Martin returned in 2018 to teach editing essentials, feature writing, and, magazine editing with the late Stephen Trumper.
Martin has held some of the most senior positions in Canadian journalism. In 2021, Martin became the head of the newsroom development for the Globe and Mail responsible for staff training and management. Martin also worked alongside newsroom managers to determine current and future training and development needs.
She’s also served as editor-in-chief for Rogers Media, Money Sense and Canadian Living magazines.
