Past Soup & Substance Events

January

Women in executive leadership at TMU

On January 31, 2020, Dr. Denise O’Neil Green led a discussion with four women in senior executive positions on what leading means to them. 

In 2018, women made up more than half of all staff at TMU, exceeding the total representation of women within the GTA. While these stats reveal how the needle is moving on gender equity in the workplace, we know that women still experience the "double-bind" of gendered expectations of leadership.

Moderator

• Dr. Denise O'Neil Green | Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion

Panellists

• Deborah Brown | Vice-President, Administration and Operations
• Joanne McKee | Chief Financial Officer
• Julia Shin-Doi | General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Governors and University Privacy Officer

February

Leading change for social justice

On February 7, 2020, Dr. Denise O’Neil Green led a discussion with four women at TMU who are enacting social justice values through their everyday leadership.

Moderator

• Dr. Denise O'Neil Green | Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion

Panellists

• Dr. Cheryl Thompson (external link)  | Assistant Professor, School of Creative Studies, Faculty of Communication and Design
• Dr. Melanie Panitch | Executive Director, Office of Social Innovation
• Shurla Charles-Forbes | Manager, Learning and Development, Organizational and Employee Effectiveness, Human Resources
• Tanya (Toni) De Mello | Director, Human Rights Services

April

Handling the Glass Cliff - Women and leadership during uncertain times

On April 28, 2020, Dr. Denise O’Neil Green led a discussion with four women in leadership roles at TMU on the phenomenon of the glass cliff and leading in a pandemic. 

Panellists discussed strategies and tools they are employing to lead during the COVID-19 pandemic and share insights into the pressures they face as women when the stakes are high. They also discussed the glass cliff, a phenomenon in which women are more likely to be appointed to precarious leadership roles in times of crisis or economic downturn whereas their male counterparts are appointed to stable and high-performing organizations.

Moderator

• Dr. Denise O'Neil Green | Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion

Panellists

• Joanne Okimawininew Dallaire | Elder (Ke Shay Hayo) and Senior Advisor Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
• Dr. Linda Maxwell | Executive Director and Founder, Biomedical Zone
• Jenny O’Donnell | Chief Human Resources Officer
• Dr. Donna E. Young | Dean, Faculty of Law

The Decolonization Series

(Illustration: Keitha Keeshig-Tobias)

• Diversifying STEM: Creating pathways for equity-seeking groups (February 2017)
• Unusual allies: Building bridges and working together (March 2017) 
• Are you ready to take the equity, diversity and inclusion pledge? (April 2017)

• Beyond the Numbers: What’s next in recruitment and retention (September 2016)
• Unlearning the Academy: Speaking truth to power (November 2016) 
• “What about the rest of me?”: Understanding multiple identities in social justice and anti-oppression work (November 2016) 
• Ouch! That Stereotype Hurts: How to counter bias (December 2016) 

Global Events, Local Impact Series

• Freedom of expression: Power, privilege and perspective (January 2016) 
• Student voices: Challenges and experiences of campus climate (February 2016) 
• Faculty and staff experiences: Ways to improve the climate (March 2016)
• Building an inclusive classroom, climate and community (June 2016) 

• Integrating equity, diversity and inclusion: How are you making it work? (January 2015)
• Why do we acknowledge the land? Aboriginal knowledges at TMU (February 2015) 
• Teaching and learning from the margins: Part II (March 2015)
• Making Mad Studies: Process, practice and contestations (April 2015)
• #BlackLivesMatter: Equity, social justice and policing (September 2015)
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission 2015 report: What does it mean for TMU? (October 2015) 
• He, she or they: Gender Identity and expression at TMU (November 2015)
• Sanism, stigma and mental wellbeing: Let’s talk (December 2015)

• Intersecting Identities: The Place of Disability (January 2014) 
• The EDI of Mental Health (February 2014)
• Advancing the connections between social innovation and social justice (March 2014)
• Your PRIDE is my PRIDE: Experiences of the LGBTT2SIQQA community at TMU (April 2014)
• Diversity is a reality; inclusion is a choice: EDI and TMU’s Academic Plan (September 2014)
• Women’s Ways of Leading (October 2014)
• Where RU from? Questions and encounters of Canadian identities (December 2014)

• Accommodation and Accessibility in the Classroom: Hidden Barriers and Beyond
• Being Aboriginal at TMU (Part 1) 
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: What do we mean when we say EDI? (September 2013)
• Canadians Too Polite? Engaging the topic of race and racism (October 2013)
• Being Aboriginal at TMU, Part II (November 2013)
• Work-life Balancing Act or Juggling Act (December 2013)