Author: Karen K. Ngo
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Leadership Blog #3: Recognition and Resilience
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Know your facts… Don’t make assumptions. Follow through with your commitments. Be impeccable with your words. I had the pleasure of attending Rola Dagher’s Female Leadership in the Digital Age workshop at the Collision Conference and she shared some insights about resilience and recognition in the workplace. Despite being turned…
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Leadership Blog #2: Strategies for Success
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Does strategy apply to our personal lives and careers? We hear executives talking about “strategy” all the time. Everything we do at work must align with the corporate strategy… and there seems to be a need for strategy when it comes to, well, everything! Earlier this summer, I sat down…
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Leadership Blog #1: Conversation with the CEO
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I still remember how nervous I was the first time I rode the elevator up to the 40th floor where all of the executives lived and breathed Husky. Even after a dozen or so times, I still felt different whenever I set foot on the executive floor… This time, I was…
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#CollisionConf – Part 3/3
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Welcome! Here is where I quickly recap my experience at the Collision Conference in Toronto from May 20-23, 2019 by sharing my Top 10 favourite quotes and takeaways with you. Check out Part 1 and Part 2. Generalists change the world. Specialists perfect it. Graham McDonnell, International Creative Director of the…
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#CollisionConf – Part 2/3
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Welcome! Here is where I quickly recap my experience at the Collision Conference in Toronto from May 20-23, 2019 by sharing my Top 10 favourite quotes and takeaways with you. Check out Part 1. The lack of women at the top is not a talent pipeline issue, it’s a network issue.…
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#CollisionConf – Part 1/3
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Welcome! Here is where I quickly recap my experience at the Collision Conference in Toronto from May 20-23, 2019 by sharing my favourite quotes and takeaways with you: If you don’t throw your name into the hat, then it will never be drawn. Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder and COO of Cloudflare in the…
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If You’re Not Fixing the Problem, You’re the Problem!
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A mentor told me this one day in our session, and it really resonated with me because it’s so true. In working with a spectrum of personalities over my academic and professional career over the past 10 years, I have consistently found that most people love to bring up problems;…
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Time Management
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On March 1st, I presented to the AIESEC in Calgary Local Committee about managing their time and balancing good grades in school with demanding results in extracurricular activities:
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If You Want It, Go Get It
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We all want a lot of things. We get some things, but not others. It all comes down to lots of effort and sometimes, a dash of luck. Story Time In my second year, I applied for the Co-op program to gain work experience and figure out what I liked.…
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Take Ownership
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My True Story During my co-op, I was given the exciting task of compiling a headcount report for the VP/CIO. After hours of analyzing Excel data and putting together those lovely pivot charts, I came up with something pretty significant and sent it off to my team lead to look…