The 2016 Career Roundtable is coming up this Thursday, November 10. Find out more here. Register to attend here.
Career Roundtable Speaker: Joanna Kirke
Presentation Topic: Building Your Cultural Competence and Positioning Your Experience as a Leadership Advantage: Your global experience gives you a competitive advantage to lead with a global mindset. In this session we will learn how to position that advantage and build your cultural leadership competence in the workplace.
Years on JET: Tochigi Prefecture, Utsonomiya, (1 year) as teacher for Chuo Joshiko and at Mo Gakko (a school for children with disabilities)
Bio: President, Executive Coach and Leadership Developer at Kirke Consulting.
After teaching ESL at Queen’s University School of English and for the JET Programme in Japan, Joanna returned to Canada to join the Learning Department of a high-tech company building a Corporate University and later coached Executives and led programs in Financial Services. She completed an International MBA at Rotman, a Certificate in Evidence Based Coaching at Fielding Graduate University and a Yoga Teacher Training Certificate at Octopus Garden for increased mindfulness. She now owns and operates her own Consulting Business and has taught and coached thousands of leaders around the globe in leadership topics across the spectrum. She has worked with such companies as Bell, TD Bank, BMO, CIBC, Meridian, Sovereign General, Canadian Tire, Capital One, Shoppers Drug Mart, Loblaws, Enbridge, Vexos, KPMG, McMillan LLP, The Nova Scotia Department of Justice, KidsAbility, CamH, Detour Gold, Golcorp, The Women in Leadership Foundation, and Pratt & Whitney. Joanna is looking forward to sharing her leadership tools with you.