Vancouver Women in Male-Dominated Industries

Women in Male-Dominated Industries Café Night - In-Person!

Thu, Jan 29 · 5:30 PM PST

Pane e Formaggio cafe, 868 Beatty St, Vancouver, BC, CA

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It's our much-loved café night -- this time in an actual café!

Join us for a night of in-person networking, chit-chat, and strategy sharing between women in male-dominated industries.

This is an IRL networking event for all of our Vancouver-based WIMDI members.
Here's the plan:

1. Meet at Pane e Formaggio Cafe - 868 Beatty St
2. Order delicious mochas, jasmine tea, muffins, etc.
3. Meet some cool women and chat about our work lives
4. Exchange cards, phone numbers, facepages, myfriend accounts, tiktaks, 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 + Executive Coach for Women in Male-Dominated Industries
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Location:
Pane e Formaggio Cafe - 868 Beatty St

Parking: There is limited paid street parking or parkades on the streets surrounding the café.
Transit: The nearest mass transit hub is just two blocks away at Yaletown-Roundhouse Skytrain Station (on the Canada Line) or Stadium-Chinatown Skytrain Station (on the Expo Line). Additional information about planning your trip via transit can be found here: Translink Trip Planner

Accessibility & Covid Precautions

Seating Accessibility:

• The café as a whole has an accessible entrance. Please consider whether this is a fit for your mobility needs.

Accessible Washrooms: The café has an accessible washroom.

Covid Precautions:

• This in-person event is being held indoors.
• Masking is encouraged for any WIMDI members who prefer to wear them for their own safety and/or comfort.
• Worried about being the only one in a mask? You won’t be alone! WIMDI’s founder Holly is committed to wearing a mask with any WIMDI member who wants to so you have an automatic friend and ally.
• Need anything else to make it as safe as possible for you to join us at Café Night? Drop Holly a note at hello@wimdi.com and we’ll make a plan so you can have a great (& safe) time with your fellow WIMDIs!

Attendance Notes:

• Gender:
  All WIMDI Café Nights 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.

*****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.

• 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.
• Children:
  WIMDI events are for parents too! We know childcare can occasionally be a challenge, but we don't think that should stop you from connecting and learning with us. WIMDI doesn't offer childcare at our events, but we'd love you to bring your little one along with some quiet activities to occupy them. Suitable for ages 0+.
• Photography:
  This WIMDI event does not have photography.

How to Respond When HR Isn't Helping You - WIMDI Interactive Webinar

Thu, Feb 12 · 12:00 PM PST

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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.
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Welcome to Talk 2 of 13 - How to Respond When HR Isn't Helping You

Unfortunately, we’ve all been there: Something seriously messed up has happened at work and HR is doing their very best head-in-the-sand ostrich impression.

It’s a tough situation. If you don’t get help, the bad behaviour will continue and your work will get increasingly toxic. But sometimes trying to get help from HR – who in theory works to protect employees, but in reality works to protect the company’s bottom line – can make you seem like the problem and put a target on your back. Eek!

This talk will focus on how to work with HR to get your concerns taken seriously – without risking blowing up your career. We’ll cover:

• What to do when HR isn’t taking action on a concern you’ve raised
• How to document your challenges to maximize your chances that HR works with you and not against you
• Tips for escalating your challenges to ensure they get action
• Key things to do to protect yourself from unexpected career repercussions

The goal of this talk is to give you a practical roadmap to get your HR concerns addressed at work without taking on too much risk.
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Rachel Maxcy
Rachel Maxcy is an independent workplace investigator and HR Policy Advisor based in Vancouver, BC. She conducts external investigations into harassment, discrimination, misconduct, and workplace violence for organizations that require a neutral, thorough, and structurally independent process.

She brings over 15 years of experience working inside HR and labour relations across unionized and non-unionized environments, with work spanning compliance, policy, employee relations, conflict resolution, disability management, and workplace accommodations. Her experience includes nonprofits, public sector organizations, and professional associations across multiple jurisdictions.

Outside of work, Rachel is a Quaker, a fiber artist, and a mom to a preteen — and she believes workplaces can be rigorous, fair, and humane at the same time.

Holly Burton
Holly is an executive coach for women in male-dominated industries. She works one-on-one with ambitious women to help them lead, get promoted, and create the careers they actually want in industries they love.
As a mining engineer for the first ten years of her career, Holly was exposed to one of the most male-dominated spaces -- just 17% female. She uses the unique perspective she gained as a woman in mining, alongside her obsessive nerdiness for all things feminism, leadership, and career to help women create the working world they deserve while they wait for the rest of society to catch up.

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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 scholarship 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.