Navigating Your Career:
Join our Mentoring Circle with Dora Boussias and Maureen Sheehan to discuss opportunities and pathways, as well as overcoming challenges when navigating your career. We will touch on topics like values, goal setting, culture, flexibility, challenges, learning and leadership. Join us and bring your thoughts on career navigation to our informal mentoring circle or just listen in this safe place.
Moderator:
Gladys Lam, Principal & Co-Founder, Business Rule Solutions
Gladys S.W. Lam is a world-renowned authority on applied business rule techniques. She is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRSolutions.com), the most recognized company world-wide for business rules and decision analysis. BRS provides methodology, publications, consulting services, and training. Ms. Lam is Co-Creator of Proteus®, the BRS methodology. She is Co-Founder of BRCommunity.com, a vertical community for professionals and home of Business Rules Journal. She co-authored Building Business Solutions, an IIBA® sponsored handbook on business analysis with business rules
Ms. Lam is widely known for her lively, pragmatic style. She speaks internationally at conferences and other professional events. She co-presents public seminars through AttainingEdge. She is also Executive Director of Building Business Capability (BBC) Conference, which includes the Business Rules Forum and the Business Analysis Forum.
Ms. Lam is most recognized for her ability to identify the source of business issues, and for her effectiveness in developing pragmatic approaches to resolve them. She has gained a world-class reputation for fostering positive professional relationships with principals and support staff in projects.
Discussion Leader:
Dora Boussias, Transformational Leader, Data Strategy & Architecture, Stryker
Dora Boussias is a business data and technology leader with deep domain expertise in data, analytics, enterprise architecture and digital transformation; accustomed to walking the line between Business & IT, comfortable with driving change at global organizations, focused on making meaningful impact to the organization and its ultimate beneficiary, be it patient or customer.
Leading with authenticity, empathy, inclusiveness and resilience, strives to drive trusted partnerships to define, design, and implement cross-functional solutions that balance strategic direction with pragmatic needs, simplify processes, boost operational efficacy, and bring timely, relevant, high quality data for the right business decisions.
Currently and throughout most her career in leadership roles of enterprise-wide reach, Dora has had the opportunity to make an impact with her work at global organizations such as Stryker, GE, and Prudential. Her 27+ year career includes exposure to Retail, Financial Services, and Healthcare/Medical Technology.
Discussion Leader:
Maureen Sheehan, Director, Regulatory Strategy and Government Relations, Technical Safety BC
Maureen is the Director of Regulatory Strategy and Government Relations with Technical Safety BC. She has a passion for enabling strong digital connections between organizations and their clients, employees and stakeholders, and believes simplicity and clarity in approach are keys to success. Maureen has undergraduate degrees in Economics and Communications from York University, an MBA from the IVEY Business School and over 20 years’ experience in senior leadership roles with both private and public sector organizations.