What we’re about
This is a networking and career resource group for women in male-dominated industries (eg: mining, tech, engineering, construction, politics, etc.). WIMDI hosts a monthly speaker series focused on actionable advice that will help you achieve your career goals. We also meet once a month for coffee/tea to chat, commiserate, strategize, and cheer each other on. It's a great way to connect with women facing your issues when they are few and far between in your work life. \
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I hope to see you at one of our events soon!
Holly Burton\
WIMDI Founder & CEO + \
Leadership Coach for Women in Male-Dominated Industries\
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Upcoming events (2)
See all- Women in Male-Dominated Industries Café Lunch - Virtual Edition!Link visible for attendees
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Join us for our fun mid-day meal in a virtual setting. Join us for a lunch break of networking, chit-chat, and strategy sharing between women in male-dominated industries.
Here's the plan:
- Make yourself lunch.
- Meet online via our group zoom call.
- Meet some cool women and chat about our work lives.
- Exchange cards, phone numbers, facepages, myfriend accounts, tweetster, instapics, snaptexts, or whatever it is that the kids are using these days to stay in touch.
- Stay in touch! Or....failing that, we'll do it all again in four weeks, so don't worry, we've got your back.
Hope to see you there!
Holly Burton
WIMDI Founder & CEO + Leadership Coach for Women in Male-Dominated Industries
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p: she/herHow Online Events Work:
- This event is live only and will not be recorded.
- We'll email you the login info for the Zoom meeting 5 minutes before the start of the event.
- Can't find your login details? Check your spam for mail from WIMDI and/or eventbrite. If you still can't find the info, email hello@wimdi.com and we'll get you all sorted out.
Attendance Notes:
- Gender:
All WIMDI Café Lunches are restricted to those who do not currently identify as cisgender men. These events have limited attendance and often involve personal discussion, debate, and advice specific to dynamics underrepresented minorities in these industries experience. We are happy for cisgender men to learn and participate in WIMDI conversation at most of our other events, but we reserve the Café Lunches as a space for women* to connect with each other freely and openly. - Code of Conduct:
By attending this event, you agree to adhere to WIMDI's code of conduct, which you can find at wimdi.com/code-of-conduct-and-policy. - Privacy and Photography:
Online WIMDI events use Zoom, and as such we cannot guarantee that no photos or screenshots will be taken of you during the event. We love it when our members connect at our events using both video and audio, but we understand if our members prefer to participate with their video turned off to preserve (more of) their privacy.
*WIMDI uses an inclusive definition of women that means "people who are in a gender minority in their field". This includes trans individuals, genderqueer, agender, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary folks. If you are not sure if you are included, please err on the side of attending our events! Feel free to reach out to the Organizer, Holly Burton, with any questions and for an automatic welcoming face and first-friend at any WIMDI event.
- Decoding Corporate for Profit & Fun - WIMDI Interactive WebinarLink visible for attendees
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https://buytickets.at/hellowimdi/1145775/r/meetup****In 2024, The WIMDI Speaker Series is inviting engaging speakers each month to give interactive talks on topics that help women kill it at work.
Welcome to Talk 4 of 13 - Decoding Corporate for Profit & Fun
Let’s face it: Corporate culture is an enigma. Business people speak in an inscrutable code where everything is implied and nothing is said outright. If you haven’t yet learned how to decode the corporate word salad, you can find yourself stranded in a foreign culture without the ability to speak the language and understand what’s going on.
Being able to translate the whispers, subtle shifts, and corporate rumblings happening around you every day is an essential career skill that will help you perceive of big shifts in the business that are coming, tailor your work to the real concerns of senior leadership, and confidently steer your career through layoffs, re-orgs, and strategy changes alike.
So if you find yourself completely confused and vaguely anxious when your COO says you need to drill down into the verticals to figure out the KPIs and deliverables for this project, then this is the talk for you. We’ll take a page out of the WWII codebreakers’ book and use the same tools they did to break the Enigma machine and translate intercepted German communication into valuable intel for the Allies.
This talk will focus on making sense of the subtle language, behaviour, and power structures in the corporate world. We’ll cover:
- Who the major players are in a corporate structure (and their incentives)
- How to use publicly available company information to intuit what’s happening behind closed doors
- Common corporate patterns (and what they really mean!)
- How to build and test your very own corporate crib sheet to help you stay aligned with corporate objectives
The goal of this talk is to help you read between the lines at work so you can navigate the corporate space with skill and intention
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Jeanine Longley, Product Leader
Jeanine works as a Product Manager at MakerSights; a company reducing waste in the retail industry by injecting data into the decisions of the retail product lifecycle. She is also the former President of ProductBC and is engaged in her local product community.She's the kind of neurospicy that does well with finding patterns and politicking inside a corporate environment, with plenty of neurospicy friends who hate that stuff. So she decided to try to outline clearly for you all some tips and tricks to navigate!
If required; she can also provide tips and tricks for houseplant care, she has over 50 green friends in her home.
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Attendance Notes:
- Gender:
This event is open to individuals of any gender identity. - Code of Conduct:
By Attending this event, you agree to adhere to WIMDI's code of conduct, which you can find at wimdi.com/code-of-conduct-and-policy. - Privacy, Photography and Recording*:
Online WIMDI events use Zoom, and we will be recording this event in the hopes of eventually releasing replays of the speaker portions of our events. As such we cannot guarantee that no photos, screenshots, or recordings will be taken of you during the event by event organizers or by other attendees. We love it when our members connect at our events using both video and audio, but we understand if our members prefer to participate with their video turned off to preserve (more of) their privacy.