Vancouver Women in Male-Dominated Industries

Career Strategy for Ambitious Parents - WIMDI Interactive Webinar

Thu, May 7 · 12:00 PM PDT

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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 5 of 13 - Career Strategy for Ambitious Parents
It’s shocking how quickly your career trajectory can change when you become a parent.

Once upon a time, you were a successful career woman climbing the ladder, and then all of a sudden everything shifts. Your boss stops giving you juicy projects. Happy hour team building is a distant memory. Your ‘just throw a few hours of overtime at it’ strategy for creating promotion-worthy results is…frankly laughable at this point.

So how are you supposed to maintain an ambitious career with all of that going on? And what does career strategy even look like in this era of your life?

This talk will focus on how to build a career strategy that works when you’re a parent. We’ll cover:

• Key conversations to have so you don’t get taken off the career ladder
• How career strategy changes over time as your children age
• How the ‘default parent’ assumption hurts women’s careers (& how to deal with it!)
• When to negotiate flexibility at work – and when not to

The goal of this talk is to give you the tools you need to build an ambitious career as a parent.

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Zeba Khan
Zeba is a senior technology leader whose journey in tech has been deeply shaped by becoming a mother. While building and leading complex platforms, she experienced firsthand the tension many women feel between ambition and caregiving—and the lack of spaces that truly support both. This inspired her to create Motherhood by Design, an initiative rooted in the belief that motherhood doesn’t pause leadership, it reshapes it. Zeba brings an honest, compassionate voice to conversations about identity, purpose, and designing careers that evolve with our lives.

Samantha Wallace
Sam Wallace is the Founder of re-mom, an organization that helps working mothers find work-life harmony through dismantling default parenting. A bold ambition led by a bold woman, re-mom achieves this by coaching mothers and couples directly, and by educating and supporting organizations in creating work environment structures that best support working mothers.
Sam believes that every working mother deserves to live flexible, comfortable and satisfying lives. Sam leverages her background in Maternity Coaching, Psychology, and the Science of Change to produce shifts in attitude and approach in mothers and organizations alike, with a goal of changing the narrative around what working motherhood should look like, to what it could look like.

Jennie Yang
Jennie Yang is Founder of Chief Mama Officer, a community for executive moms of young children and moms-to-be. As an executive coach, former tech executive, and mom of two little ones, Jennie is passionate about helping executive moms thrive.

Jennie started her coaching practice in 2017 after becoming a certified master practitioner of transformational neuro-linguistic programming, also known as NLP. She blends NLP with mindfulness, emotional intelligence and conscious leadership in her coaching approach.

Jennie has also spent her entire career as a strategic operator at tech startups, scaleups, and Fortune 500 companies. Before founding Chief Mama Officer, Jennie led HR and Customer Success at 15Five (a performance management platform) and created Business Operations at TigerConnect (a healthcare communications platform). She also supported building Customer Success at TigerConnect and Data.ai, and started her career as a management consultant at The Advisory Board Company and Deloitte.

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Timeline of Our Fun Event:

• 12:00 pm - The event starts with mingling, socializing, and small-group networking. We recommend putting your webcam on* (even if you've already transitioned to work-is-over-dress-like-a-slob mode) to help you make the strongest possible connections with your new WIMDI friends!
• 12:15 pm - The talk starts! Most talks contain interactive elements, question prompts for you to complete, or other activities that make multi-tasking difficult. Get out your notepad and prepare to soak up some knowledge.
• 12:45 pm - It's #WIMDIasks time! We end the night with our interactive community-based resource that lets you crowdsource any challenge in your life through the network of all the WIMDIs in the room.

How Online Events Work:

• We'll email you the login info for the Zoom meeting before the start of the event.
• Can't find your login details? Check your spam for mail from WIMDI. If you still can't find the info, email hello@wimdi.com and we'll get you all sorted out.
• Our events are interactive and will require your attention and input throughout the course of the event.

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.

Women in Male-Dominated Industries Café Night!

Thu, May 21 · 5:30 PM PDT

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 - 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 Walk, Talk & Ice Cream? 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.
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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.
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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+.
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Photography:
This WIMDI event does not have photography.