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WTM21 - Taking control of your career development cycle by Maeghan Smulders

WTM21 - Taking control of your career development cycle by Maeghan Smulders

The facts are clear: women are strong, talented, and well-educated leaders. So why are they earning less, advancing slower in their career, and may feel they have a hard time being heard? As a venture builder, Maeghan Smulders knows the importance of developing top-talent teams is a critical piece to success. So how can we get more women within the workplace to be recognized in these roles? In this talk, Maeghan will help break down a few tactics and personal stories to how you can understand your value, be seen as a leader, and how to design your own meaningful career path within a new company or current workplace.

Maeghan Smulders
Montreal / Diagram Ventures
Head of Ecosystem at Diagram Ventures 🚀
Maeghan Smulders is the Head of Ecosystem at Diagram - a venture builder focused on validating early-stage ideas and together with repeat entrepreneurs, launch technology companies in the financial services, insurance, and health tech industries. Before joining Diagram, she was an early founding member of Montreal-based startup PasswordBox, which was acquired by Intel in 2014. Before working in tech, she was known as “Canada’s Super Intern”, has been nationally recognized for her entrepreneurial work, written award-nominated academic papers, and published a children’s book.

Women Techmakers Montreal

March 16, 2021
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  1. 1. This is where I hope to grow 2. What

    does it take to get there? 3. What milestones do I need to hit? 4. When can we follow up? How to frame it
  2. 1. Track your milestones 2. Know your value 3. Document

    your next steps 4. Structure your asks 5. Practice makes permanent Other hacks