Canadian Program Helps Professional Women Re-enter Leadership Jobs - Building Gender Balanced Business

• For a second year, ReConnect is offering Canadian women who have taken time out from work a means to ease their return to leadership-level corporate jobs with confidence.

• The program, set for October 26-30 at the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business. An extension session and graduation follow in Toronto on November 16 and 17.

• Participants are expected to have managerial or executive experience in professional fields, including at not-for-profits, before having taken two to six years off for such activities as taking care of children or aging parents or starting a business.

• ReConnect concentrates not just on updating skills and knowledge for professional women but also works on renewing leadership skills.

• The timing is right: Women make up more than half of the Canadian workforce and older women are flocking back to jobs.

• ReConnect’s founding sponsor, CIBC, provided $1 million over five years to fund the program, including financial assistance for program participants.

Information on ReConnect as well as how to apply