Barbara shares her personal journey: how one person, with one idea, can have a dramatic effect on changing an entire industry.

Barbara started her career in finance nearly 30 years ago. She was one of a handful of women in a foreign currency trading room and she dressed like a man, swore like a man, and acted like a man.

During the financial crisis she started investigating the representation of women in investment. She found a majority of negative viewpoints. She thus had the idea to interview 50 highly accomplished women from around the world and share their positive messages about money. She released her first report on IWD 2010 and kept writing this annual research report alongside working in her day job as a portfolio manager.

Over time, this research started to resonate with people globally: Rich Thinking research was getting noticed. In 2015 she decided to interview global leaders. That research report led to another turning point when CFA Institute (the Global Academic Institution for Finance) asked Barbara to write a monthly column for their Enterprising Investor blog.

She spent the next five years speaking at CFA Societies, banks, and investment firms all around the world sharing her research, always sharing positive messages about women and money.

You can read Barbara’s research on her website www.barbarastewart.ca

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