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Empowering women to lead into the future
Women in Leadership program
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At PwC Canada, we’re committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Bringing more top women talent into all levels of business is crucial to our economy’s success. But women aren’t rising to leadership positions at the same rate as men, with some stalled in the so-called frozen middle.
Our Women in Leadership (WiL) program helps unlock women’s potential. It’s an intensive four-month program that accelerates women’s personal and professional development. The program champions sponsorship by guiding participants on building relationships with strong supporters in decision-making positions—senior people who will be in the room when promotions and special projects are discussed. WiL further promotes sponsorship by involvingmen in nominating participants—bringing men and women together to create leadership opportunities and enhance the development, retention and advancement of high-potential women.
By recognizing, respecting and valuing everyone’s differences, we can set in motion a culture that’s truly inclusive.
Key elements of the Women in Leadership program
Insight
Understand your personal attributes, workplace realities and team dynamics.
Network
Rethink the roles of coaches and mentors, and the path to sponsorship.
Tools
Learn practical skills such as self-awareness, goal setting, resilience and workplace balance.
Explore
Proactively find the right opportunities to put learnings into practice.
“Here's something about being in a group of women that feels different. It’s almost a sacred space. That in and of itself makes WIL something special.”
— WiL participant, 2024History of WiL
Our WiL program launched in 2013 to support the advancement of top female talent within our firm. After much success, we expanded it in 2017 to include participants from organizations outside PwC Canada. These organizations tell us they're more successful in retaining top women talent. Participants themselves say they’re better equipped to advance in their career and executives from these organizations tell us the program helps them empower top talent.
What’s more, our internal participants say they benefitted from the diversity of the women in the program and mentorship opportunities outside of PwC Canada.
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