Resources

Top 5 Resources for Supporting Work-Life Balance

Here’s my top 5 ideas for supporting your team with work-life balance: 1. Encourage socializing - Don’t look down on employees for having water cooler conversations or chatting in between assignments — better yet, join in when it makes sense to do so! Encouraging...

How to Deal With Resistance to Diversity & Inclusion

Change of any kind is often met with some level of resistance so it is no surprise that some people – both men and women – resist changing a workplace culture to be more gender diverse and inclusive. In the report “The Path of Least RESISTANCE to Gender Diversity...

Become an Ally – Toolkit

Want to know how to be an ally to underrepresented groups in your workplace? This report provides “the ally journey spectrum” to help individuals learn the steps they can take to contribute to an inclusive workplace culture. It also provides tangible allyship actions...

AI: Arrogance and Ignorance?

Ok I said it – those two letters that are at the forefront of everyone’s mind these days, but I’ve applied them to two words that are at the forefront of everyone’s mind when it comes to equity and inclusion. I’ve witnessed arrogance and ignorance first hand – not...

Addressing Systemic Gender, Diversity & Inclusion Issues in The Forest Sector

The Free to Grow in Forestry Initiative was officially launched in November 2018. The Centre for Social Intelligence secured funding for the Canadian Institute of Forestry from the department for Women and Gender Equality (WAGE). This innovative partnership...

Inclusion Growth Curve Guide

Using proven techniques based on years of research and leading edge thinking, CSI takes away your confusion about how to get started on mainstreaming diversity & inclusion in the workplace at a national sector level. Not sure where to begin? Download our...

Blog

Gender Diversity in the Mining Sector

My daughter will be heading into high school this fall and is beginning to think about possible career options. Her future will be quite different than mine was when I entered the workforce. My parents raised me to think I could do anything I put my mind to and it...

New Year Reflections

January is the month for reflection – of the year gone by and the year ahead. I often find myself drawing down the lessons from the year with the hope that I will integrate those nuggets of knowledge into my being such that it no longer seems to be a lesson, just an...

Climate change and Nunavut: building a future

As climate change continues to impact the globe, and most Canadians cheer for warmer winters, the citizens of Canada’s northern regions are cheering for a different reason. Faced with unprecedented new economic opportunities, Canada’s northern territories are well...