CIM Distinguished Lecturers
Betty-Ann Heggie, a Senior Vice-President with PotashCorp (now Nutrien) retired in 2007 and currently serves as a corporate director, philanthropist, mentor and author. Devoted to getting more working women to the decision-making table she founded the Womentorship program at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S). To date, more than 2500 women have attended its professional development programs and networking events. She has written for many publications including Harvard Business Review and recently published a book, Gender Physics: Unlock the Energy You Never Knew You Had to Get the Results You Want. A member of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame and the Saskatchewan Business Hall of Fame, she has also received the Trailblazer Award from Women in Mining Canada and was named one of the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining. Heggie has received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, the YWCA Lifetime Achievement Award and the U of S Alumni Mentorship Award.
Distinguished Lecturer 2019-20
Lecture Abstract
The Gender Physics Leadership Advantage
Gender Physics is a revolutionary practice designed to help business leaders capture the advantages of both gender attributes for maximum impact and success. In some venues, situations or with some audiences, it is best to respond with a more confident, assertive Masculine Energy while in others a caring, collaborative Feminine Energy works most effectively. Betty-Ann uses university research, and her own personal stories as a senior VP with the world’s largest fertilizer company to demonstrate how using a particular type of energy creates a particular result. To aid in the learnings she has created a ‘Go-To’ Energy evaluation, Complementary Energy experiments and a step by step balancing process called the A+ Energy Model to activate behavioural change.
The results are for those who adopt Gender Physics to let go of established stereotypes and unlock the energy they never knew they had to get the results they want. Those in attendance will leave with a new way of looking at gender and be inspired to not only express their individuality, they will see the value in using the attributes of both genders.
