Status of Women committee  I have to laugh. I call it—

Status of Women committee  It's all right. It was my fault. I also call it living on the edge of myself. Very similar to Ms. Kennedy, I have my own phrase about fear, which is making sure that you're living on the edge of what you're comfortable with. I think it works. My daughter also runs her own bus

Status of Women committee  I am a mother of three, and my daughter is now 25 and starting her own family. The advice I gave her was, “Don't be a satellite to anyone else.” It means having your own life and being your own person with your own dreams, your own goals, and your own ambition. Live that goal and

Status of Women committee  I do, actually, and I've written some notes on that. What an entrepreneur does is solve problems. They see an insight in a market. There can be teaching at a very early age on problem solving and ideas, and on how you create a market out of those ideas. There are some really gr

Status of Women committee  I don't know if having an employee is tax deductible, but I think maybe continuing to have a day care tax credit, regardless of how you use that, would be a good practice, as would allowing that to be used for home care, and not just for day care at a centre or something. It woul

Status of Women committee  That's an excellent point. It's something that in coaching I received great advice on, and that I would pass on to the committee. I valued getting the work done and thought that I would be judged on the quality of my work very early on in my career. The reality is you're judged o

Status of Women committee  I would definitely agree that we have to provide options however it's funded. I believe that it's in the best interests of business to participate in solving these problems that do affect our employment base and how long people can stay in the employment base. We had one worker

Status of Women committee  I'd be happy to start with that. I think number one is still public speaking for most people. Very early on in our leadership courses we teach public speaking. We did at Lululemon, and I'm actually arranging my first one here for my teams at Luvo. I think that's a very important

Status of Women committee  I think it's one of the biggest topics. Not only is it access to quality care for families and particularly for single mothers to have a career or go back to school, I think the investment by the government in quality child care options or encouraging those in the private sector

Status of Women committee  Yes. For that program in particular, we had senior mentors assigned to each one of the five project teams out of the 20 or so people going in the program. The senior leader would mentor that group of four or five. In addition, all high potentials in the company had a mentor.

Status of Women committee  Male or female, yes, or they could be a personal coach. We hired a stable of about five or six personal coaches who worked with people individually or in small groups, so that they had an outside resource that was a safe harbour, outside of the company, to talk to, to work on the

Status of Women committee  Currently there are more employees at Lululemon, but do you mean women specifically?

Status of Women committee  At Luvo, I'm back to start-up days. So I have about 150 employees. Of those 150 employees, about 100 are in the manufacturing sector that we have, and of those, 80% are women, which is very unusual for—

Status of Women committee  —a manufacturing environment. In my office, it's about 50-50 women of the remaining 50 people.

Status of Women committee  I think the number one thing—and I'll start with Lululemon and practices that I've conveyed over to Luvo—is we taught leadership as part of our curriculum from day one. To anybody who came to work at Lululemon, we taught three levels of leadership. The first was self; managing