Vancouver Women in Male-Dominated Industries

Women in Male-Dominated Industries Café Lunch - Virtual Edition!

Thu, Jun 18 · 12:00 PM PDT

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Online

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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:

1. Make yourself lunch.
2. Meet online via our group zoom call.
3. Meet some cool women and chat about our work lives.
4. 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.
5. 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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How 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

Stop Hedging & Build Your Confidence - WIMDI Interactive Webinar

Thu, Jun 25 · 5:30 PM PDT

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Online

Online

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In 2026, 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 7 of 13 - Stop Hedging & Build Your Confidence

Maybe…sort of…I mean…I think…perhaps…possibly…perhaps…might…could…probably…

Be honest: if someone made a word cloud of your most commonly used words, how big would these be? If you’re realizing you use a lot of hedging language, you’re not alone! Hedging serves all kinds of important purposes in language, from expressing appropriate uncertainty, to creating space for diverging perspectives, to bridging power differentials at work.

The only problem is that they’re often viewed as an outward sign that you lack confidence, so they can end up undermining your message, your credibility, and your career prospects.

This talk will focus on how to stop the undermining effects of hedging on your communication. We’ll cover:

• What hedging is and why it’s quietly keeping you away from opportunities to lead
• How to spot the places where hedging shows up in your work life
• The 3 key ingredients to true, career-building confidence
• Specific actions you can take to help you stand strong & show up confident, even under pressure

The goal of this talk is to help you reduce the hedging that undercuts your credibility so you can show up confident & ready to dazzle every room you walk into.

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Lana Kinberg
Lana is a confidence strategist, speaker, facilitator and former Fortune 200 sales leader. She helps individuals and teams build confidence intentionally to stop second-guessing themselves and show up with clarity and conviction.

After 30 years in corporate sales leadership, Lana saw how often capable people were overlooked, not because they lack skill, but because they don’t show up with confidence in a way others can see and trust. That led her to develop the S.E.L.F.™ Confidence Framework, Security, Empathy, Luminosity, and Fortitude; four pillars that work together to help people build confidence they can rely on in the moment.

When she's not empowering others, she can be found building her confidence on a golf course or bingeing cooking competitions.

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Attendance Notes:

1. Gender:
   This event is open to individuals of any gender identity.
2. 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.
3. Privacy, Photography and Recording*:
   This event is being recorded for release on the WIMDI YouTube channel. By attending you consent to the terms laid out at wimdi.com/video-release/. We understand that some of our members may not be comfortable being recorded, and we don’t want this to stop anyone from attending. Our Video Policy has helpful tips for staying internet-anonymous at our events. Learn more at wimdi.com/video-policy/
   Online WIMDI events use Zoom, as such we cannot guarantee that no photos, screenshots, or recordings will be taken of you during the event 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.
4. Donations to PAFNW (Pacific Association of First Nations Women)
   As part of this event we have the option of donation to the Pacific Association of First Nations Women for their program fund for Indigenous women and girls. This is a concrete way - beyond land acknowledgement - to redistribute some of our collective financial privilege to support Indigenous women.