BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Universal Womens Network™ - ECPv6.0.13.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Universal Womens Network™ X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://universalwomensnetwork.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Universal Womens Network™ REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20191117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20191117T200000 DTSTAMP:20240329T095026 CREATED:20191031T195002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T233008Z UID:22163-1574013600-1574020800@universalwomensnetwork.com SUMMARY:Raise the Bar and SupportHER Panel - Nov 20 DESCRIPTION:Raise the Bar and SupportHER! \nUniversal Womens Network is committed to gender equality and raising the bar to advance women personally and professionally. Together we are stronger! \nJoin us for an evening of networking and panel discussion with industry experts\, thought leaders\, visionaries\, Women of Inspiration Alumni who are raising the bar to commit to gender equality! We welcome 2019 Women of Inspiration Alumni Award recipients Deb Milimaka Miles\, Larry Goerzen\, Robyn Woods\, and Arjun Channa who share their leadership wisdom and how everyone can take a role to SupportHER to advance women in business in any industry at any level on an organization. Learn how these individuals are inspiring others to take action leading by example and making an impact locally\, nationally and globally! \nAgenda \n\n6:00 pm – Open Networking\n6:30 pm – Introduction – Featured Panelists – Women of Inspiration Alumni | SupportHER Panel and Q and A\n7:30 pm – Closing Networking\n\nSupportHER Panel – Guest Speakers\n\nDeb Milimaka Miles – Chief Administrative Officer/Chief People Officer\, Harvest One | 2019 Women of Inspiration SupportHER \nA Senior Executive\, Corporate Professional with over 30 years of high-performance corporate management and consulting experience in 16 countries around the world. Deb’s career has focused on driving transformation in business cultures through leadership. \nOver her career\, Deb has worked in the Financial\, CPG and Technology verticals for both public and private\, national and international companies\, such as SMART Technologies\, Aguila Convergence Worldwide\, Foxconn\, Loblaws\, The Odella Group\, Future Shop\, Hudson’s Bay\, National Trust\, Scotiabank and BMO and most recently Harvest One. \nDeb brings a wealth of experience in managing complex corporations through periods of global transformation\, acquisition\, and adapting in rapidly changing environments. In her background\, Deb was with Loblaw\, Canada’s largest retailer\, where she led the national change team for one of the largest-ever SAP implementations. She’s consistently been recognized as a top performer with innovative and effective approaches to strategic planning\, leadership\, and organizational effectiveness. She’s known for building dynamic cross-functional partnerships within the Business and HR\, to be agents of change. \n \nLarry Goerzen\, President of Alberta & Prairies\, Rogers Communications | 2019 Women of Inspiration SupportHER \nWith over 28 years of Telecom experience\, I have held various executive roles including VP of Sales in Western Canada and National SVP roles in Customer Operations where I oversaw fulfillment of all customer orders\, Field Services Network Assurance\, Customer Care and Strategic Planning. I have a proven track record of driving organizational improvement and implementing best practices. My wife Karen and I have 3 grown children and reside in Calgary. \n \nRobyn Woods (Henderson) –  Founder and CEO\, The Uncomplicated Family | 2019 Women of Inspiration Trailblazer (STEM) \nRobyn Woods (Henderson) is a visionary leader in the digital health space. She has taken bold risks to build technology to support children and families living with disabilities around the globe. Robyn’s vision is health equity\, access\, and personalized care for families and communities with complex needs. As a mother of five children\, two with disabilities\, a Registered Speech-language Pathologist\, and founder and CEO of The Uncomplicated Family\, she knows first-hand that people who receive timely\, integrated\, and barrier-free care can achieve their quality of life goals in half the time of families without this support. Her patented\, video-based collaboration software\, Teleroo™\, has proven this time and time again and is hard at work for families around the world in homes\, education centers\, and hospitals. Robyn is a recipient of the Alberta Woman Entrepreneur of the Year: Upsurge Award and 2016 Ernst and Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year award for the prairie provinces. She lives with her partner\, Brandon Woods\, in Calgary\, Alberta. Together\, they are co-parents to five amazing young people. \n \nArjun Channa – GM The Westin Calgary | 2019 Women of Inspiration Power Partner \nExperienced hotel operations professional\, with strong interpersonal skills\, spearheaded with a very uncompromising character of excellence in service and a record of delivering superior performance in all aspects of the hotel operations (Managed and Owned). \nOver 25 Years Global experience spanning: Two hotel openings\, in Algeria and United Arab Emirates combined with European\, African\, Far Eastern\, Pacific\, Caribbean (Task Force GM) & North American experiences; and one hotel conversion in South Asia. URL:https://universalwomensnetwork.com/event/supporther-nov-20/ LOCATION:Canada CATEGORIES:Featured Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://universalwomensnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/UWN-SupportHER.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR