As a community, we come together to connect, to reflect, and to celebrate our collective progress in creating a diverse and inclusive defence and security community.

We do this because it’s important.

It’s important that we provide women with a network that empowers them to be their whole selves. At WiDS, we’re proud of the work we are doing to ensure women are well supported throughout their careers.

But there is still work to be done.

As an industry, we need to make a collective effort and commitment to attract, retain, and promote women: to show our commitment to supporting women in leadership; to encouraging educational pursuits and lifelong learning; to creating connections and recognizing excellence – all of which are the core of WiDS values.

With that said, we are excited to kick off a new campaign centered on just that: recognizing excellence and celebrating emerging leaders.

What is an emerging leader?

Someone – in any stage of their career – who is doing great things; someone who is inspiring change; someone who is blazing a trail and setting an example for other young women to follow.

Please join us to recognize the incredible efforts these women are making.

 

And to Leonardo Canada, our Emerging Leaders Sponsor, thank you for leading the way. 

 

Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in aerospace, defence and security. Leonardo has been an industrial partner of Canada for over 50 years. Purpose built to serve the Canadian market, Leonardo’s Canadian team leverages and draws upon the full strength and depth of the global company. Today, Leonardo’s local workforce across five operating sites is ready to provide comprehensive, competitive turnkey solutions that meet our Canadian customers’ requirements.

We are strongly committed to building a diverse workforce, including increasing the number of female employees at Leonardo, at all levels. This has been particularly reflected by a number of women holding senior executive positions worldwide across the Company.

Inspired by the vision, curiosity and creativity of the great master inventor, Leonardo is designing the technology of tomorrow.

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