In anticipation of International Women's Day, WISF co-founder, Elaina Kim Benfield asked two inspiring female entrepreneurs, Tessa Jenkins, founder of The Works studio, and Kristen Sapp founder of Orange Lotus to join us and share their experiences in stepping out of their comfort zones and starting successful businesses.
Feb 14, 2024
21 min
WISF co-founder, Elaina Kim Benfield speaks with Stephanie Movahhed, an Executive and Leadership Coach for Krishtel, about navigating difficult conversations, setting boundaries, letting go of perfectionism and people-pleasing, and remembering you always have a choice.
Learn more about Krishtel here: https://www.krishtel.com
You can find Stephanie on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smovahhed
Jan 11, 2024
19 min
Harpreet Bains of J.P. Morgan was joined by Selina Suresh, Co-CEO of The Culture Practice, for an enlightening discussion about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, navigating DEI fatigue, generating measurable goals, creating practical changes in the workplace, and how micro exercises lead to macro changes.
Oct 27, 2023
41 min
Francesca Sanzone of Pirum speaks with Nadine Chakar, CEO of Securrency, about Nadine's inspiring career journey that led her to be a key pioneer in the evolution of Blockchain while taking risks, not being afraid of failure, and continuously learning new things.
Sep 6, 2023
32 min
Liz Rotem speaks with Angela Lee, founder of 37 Angels, about her mission to close the gender gap in Angel Investing through education. Learn more about her mission, 37 Angel's accomplishments and how you can get involved.
Jun 26, 2023
18 min
WISF Toronto Chapter Leads, Roanna Kim and Mary Jane Schuessler, sit down with Samir Dhrolia from British Columbia Investment Management to learn about their industry leading centralized global trading approach and their intense focus on prioritizing diversity and developing talent.
Jun 5, 2023
28 min
Daren Pippio, Chairperson of the SIFMA Securities Industry Institute (SII) Board of Trustees, is joined by fellow Trustees Lana Calton, Tom Gooley and Joe Colaizzo to discuss how the SII is developing the future leaders for the financial services industry.
May 9, 2023
24 min
Our Toronto Chapter leads Mary Jane Schuessler and Roanna Kim sit down with Steve Everett from TMX to hear the latest topics from an infrastructure perspective and the ever looming T+1 phenomenon we are all facing.
Apr 20, 2023
26 min
Nehal Udeshi, Co-Head of Cross Asset Financing at Goldman Sachs speaks with Craig Starble, CEO of eSecLending, John Stracquadanio, Co-Founder of Appia Ventures, and Social and Behavior Change Expert, Morgan Hillenbrand from TetraTech about what CEOs and Business Leaders can do to increase diversity on their teams.
Mar 10, 2023
27 min
Following our first courageous conversation podcast last year, Mike Daly of Goldman Sachs, met with Kyle Kolasingh of RBC I&TS, and Larry Albaugh of eSecLending, to talk about being gay men in the Securities Finance industry and what their individual experiences have been towards bringing their authentic selves to work in a world where unconscious bias exists.
Feb 27, 2023
26 min
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