Upcoming Events

Join us on January 13 as we kick off the New Year with Tara-Lee Goerlitz. She’ll share leadership lessons from the playground and will show us why she believes employees are a company’s greatest asset. Tara-Lee is passionate about helping leaders build teams that thrive and survive and has a compelling desire to make a difference and support others in realizing their potential.

NexLevel Challenge is passionate about driving performance and profits through satisfied and engaged people. As strong bully free advocates, NexLevel Challenge has partnered with a variety of educational wellness programs & schools, providing youth the opportunity to develop confidence, and valuable life skills.Tara-Lee is a Certified Emergenetics Associate, Level 2 Challenge Course Practitioner and University of Calgary Bachelor of Commerce graduate.

We are excited for Tara-Lee to join us on January 13! Please RSVP by January 8 by clicking the link on the right-hand side of the homepage.

Join us at our holiday social dinner on December 9! We’ll be joined by Libby Clark, a passionate young entrepreneur and the Director of Karma Yoga Calgary. From leading large scale charity classes of 500 individuals, heading healing yoga retreats, instructing thousands of classes over her eight years of teaching experience across Canada, to managing budding yoga businesses alongside some of Canada’s most knowledgeable yoga and spirit-centred professionals, Libby’s intelligence of the industry is broad.

We are excited for this ambitious, young entrepreneur to be our keynote speaker and bring us perspective on our body and soul as we all head into a busy time of year.

Since it’s our holiday social, we encourage attendees to bring a guest – males are welcome as well! Please RSVP by December 4 by clicking on the link of the right-hand side of the homepage.

On November 11, BPW Calgary will mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Our keynote speaker is Josie Nepinak, the Executive Director of Awo Taan Healing Lodge Society, the only aboriginal urban women’s shelter in Alberta. Our focus will be on Canada and how organizations and individuals are addressing family violence and violent crimes against aboriginal women and girls. You can access the Society’s wishlist here.

We will be also be collecting new blankets for HUGS (Hope Uplifts Giving Strength) to make a difference in the lives of women and children who need to feel warmth, comfort, and security, while they go through a difficult time and strive to lead lives free of violence and abuse.

To register for November’s dinner, click on the link on the right-hand sidebar on the homepage. We look forward to seeing all our members and guests there!

BPW Calgary’s October dinner will be held October 14th from 5:30 – 8 PM. Our keynote speaker is Judy-Lynn Archer, President and CEO at Women Building Futures, a charitable organization dedicated to empowering women to succeed in non-traditional careers, inspiring positive economic change for women and forever transforming the face of industry in Canada. Watch Judy-Lynn Archer’s role as a pioneer. 

Members are encouraged to bring their daughters, nieces and other young women to October’s dinner as we also celebrate International Day of the Girl on October 11.

To register for October’s dinner, click on the link on the right-hand sidebar. We look forward to seeing all members and guests there!

BPW Calgary’s September dinner is dedicated to celebrating women and politics, and will also be the annual general meeting where our strategic plan for the 2015/2016 will be presented. It will be hosted on September 9th beginning at 5:30 PM.

As the federal race shapes up to be the most exciting Canada has seen, voter commitment on Election Day remains up in the air.  It takes deliberate strategies and actions to advance women’s participation in politics.

Melanee Thomas, Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary, will be joining us the evening of September 9 to discuss women and politics. Melanee joined the University of Calgary in 2012. Prior to this, she was the Skelton-Clark Post-Doctoral Fellow in Canadian Affairs in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of gender-based political inequality in Canada and other post-industrial democracies, with a particular focus on political attitudes and behaviour, and policy feedback.

To register for September’s meeting, click on the link on the right-hand sidebar. We look forward to seeing all members there!