At the next session of Women in Leadership, two friends and former Brock colleagues will return virtually to the University to discuss the value of community engagement in personal, professional and leadership development.<\/p>\n
Emily O\u2019Connor (BA \u201909), Manager of Resource Development for Habitat for Humanity, and Kristen Nilsen (BBA \u201912, MEd \u201918), Academic Quality Consultant at Niagara College, will share insights they\u2019ve learned from their involvement in NEXTNiagara<\/a> \u2014 a council of the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce \u2014 in conjunction with their career journeys.<\/p>\n The pair plan to touch on topics of imposter syndrome, strategies to reinvigorate a career, strengthening professional credibility\/visibility and building relationships.<\/p>\n Both women have been recognized for their contributions to the community, including being named 40 Under Forty, an annual list recognizing Niagara\u2019s top young business professionals, O\u2019Connor in 2020<\/a> and Nilsen in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n All who are interested are invited to tune in Tuesday, March 28 from noon to 1 p.m. via Microsoft Teams. Details on this and\u00a0other\u00a0upcoming Women in Leadership sessions, including dates, descriptions and login information, are available on\u00a0the\u00a0Women in Leadership\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Women in Leadership is committed to supporting and advancing persons who identify as women to achieve and succeed in leadership. All are welcome.\u00a0Individuals are welcome to\u00a0join the\u00a0channel on Microsoft Teams\u00a0<\/a>or\u00a0to contact\u00a0Jeannie Mackintosh<\/a>\u00a0to be added to the email\u00a0distribution list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the next session of Women in Leadership, two friends and former Brock colleagues will return virtually to the University to discuss the value of community engagement in personal, professional and leadership development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":84361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,54,7,4,38],"tags":[9050,522,10853,10495,7591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84372,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84360\/revisions\/84372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}