Our Advocacy Work
August 31st, 2022
Does watching the video footage of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her female colleagues being verbally attacked by a 250-pound belligerent bully make your heart race? (You’re probably a woman.) Although my own political confrontation with an angry and self-righteous crowd happened more than 20 years ago, and my boss was the object of […]
read more...The “verbal attack” on Chrystia Freeland deters us all
Our Advocacy Work
October 28th, 2021
The following op ed, co-authored with Prashanth Rao and Dr. Maite Taboada, appeared on Poynter‘s website on 28 October 2021. Looking for silver linings in the midst of a pandemic is fraught. But here’s one that journalists need to pay attention to: Since March 2020, news media have devoted a lot more time and space […]
read more...What do three years of data on the gender gap in news reporting tell us?
Diversity Belonging + Inclusion and Our Advocacy Work
September 23rd, 2020
One of the wonderful things about truly inspiring people is that their influence outlasts them. The power of their actions and words can continue to change minds and motivate choices well beyond their time among us. It requires no prescience to predict that this will be true of the just-passed Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Yes, the […]
read more...Four Lessons from the Life and Advocacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Our Advocacy Work
February 25th, 2020
In the 10 years since Informed Opinions began training women across sectors and fields to share their insights and analysis with the media, we’ve delivered almost 250 workshops to more than 3500 participants. More than half of those sessions have focused on a five-step process designed to support subject matter experts in translating their knowledge […]
read more...More women’s voices shaping Canada’s public conversations
Our Advocacy Work
January 9th, 2020
Is patience still a virtue? When teaching kids, or walking behind those forced by age or disability to slow down, absolutely. But as Australia burns, and bellicose men on either side of the world threaten war, I feel with greater urgency than ever that change can’t happen quickly enough. My partner would tell you that […]
read more...Running to catch the light — and creating the “Transformational 20s”
Increase Your Impact as a Speaker and Presenter
December 11th, 2019
I don’t recommend crying on stage if you can avoid it. So I didn’t. But I wanted to. Last month, I got to deliver a 15-minute TED-style talk to a global leadership conference hosted by the International Women’s Forum. The IWF’s 1100-plus attendees were assembled in a cavernous Toronto hotel ballroom featuring massive screens designed […]
read more...Cry if you want to: Anatomy of a 15-minute high-stakes keynote
Our Advocacy Work
September 12th, 2019
Can snowplowing be sexist? Even if you live in Ottawa, a city that removes snow from its downtown core with military precision, you’ve probably never asked yourself that. Until I read Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women – Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, it had never occurred to me to pose the question […]
read more...Democracy needs women; snowplowing policy proves it
