28/05/2023
The world needs more Women's Leaders - and our Keynote speaker Dr. Kim Borden Penney from The University of Toronto, Canada will prove it with her speech about race, gender, and leadership in Canada titled "Walking a Tightrope: Women's Leadership Experiences."
Dr.Kim Borden Penney, Ph.D., is a researcher and received her doctorate from the University of Toronto. Her doctoral study titled “Banking on Equity: Bay Street and Black Women’s Leadership in Banks” examined Black women’s leadership experiences in the Toronto banking sector and their perceptions about opportunities for mobility and advancement to executive management positions. Her study aimed to explore the factors and conditions that made Black women’s executive leadership in corporate Canada exceedingly rare.
The connections between race, gender, and leadership are difficult to find in Canadian literature. Her study was one of the first Canadian examinations of Black women’s leadership experience in the banking sector. It examined how race and gender are conceptualized and constituted through corporate culture, human resources practices, and employment equity policies. The study’s theoretical framework is centered on Critical Race Theory, Canadian Black Feminist Thought, and Intersectionality, which critically examines the structures and policies that directs attention to historical narratives, employment, political, and social-cultural experiences of Black people in Canada. She is a change management researcher conducting quantitative and qualitative research focusing on intersectional leadership experiences in the corporate sector. She is a senior government policy expert who leads and directs staff to develop policy position papers and briefings to support senior departmental executive decision-making.
Please join us to hear this remarkable speaker and hear about the research that makes an impact on societies. Register now to be a part of our event: https://www.hsconf.org/registration/
