Holly Burton

Executive Coach for Women in Male-Dominated Industries

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Holly's Website - hollyburton.ca

Women in Male-Dominated Industries (WIMDI) - wimdi.com

Holly is an executive coach for women in male-dominated industries. She works one-on-one with ambitious women to help them lead, get promoted, and create the careers they actually want in industries they love.

As a mining engineer for the first ten years of her career, Holly was exposed to one of the most male-dominated spaces  -- just 17% female. She uses the unique perspective she gained as a woman in mining, alongside her obsessive nerdiness for all things feminism, leadership, and career to help women create the working world they deserve while they wait for the rest of society to catch up.

Fun fact: She has the world's coolest business cards.

Holly is speaker, facilitator, consultant, and coach with expertise in leadership, career development, feminist theory, and the unique mix of issues that make it challenging for women to succeed in STEM fields. She is an executive coach that specializes in working with women in male-dominated industries. She works one-on-one with ambitious women to help them lead, get promoted, and create the careers they actually want in industries they love.

Holly spent the first ten years of her career as a mining engineer in an industry that is only 17% female. She now coaches ambitious women that want to advance their careers and works with companies to develop programs to retain female talent.

Holly speaks regularly at organizations including EA Games, Elastic Path, the Canadian Institute of Mining, DevOps Days Vancouver, Women in Mining BC, Disrupt HR, The BC Women in Energy Network, UBC Masters of Public Policy & Global Affairs, Women in Tech Week, The Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST), The Women in Leadership Foundation, and her own Women in Male-Dominated Industries Speaker Series.

Want to switch up the fun fact in my bio or need one for a fun speaker intro? Here's a bunch of 'em:

• Holly is a huge word nerd who is obsessed with bringing back '90s and early '00s slang. She thinks she's going to make fetch happen.
• Holly is a huge word nerd and has spent many a night reading a thesaurus with a friend, maniacally cackling her face off at the amazing words that she had forgotten about. Best. Friday. Plan. Ever.
• Holly is in love with Friday by Rebecca Black and actually makes a habit of listening to it weekly, while partying, partying (yeah!). She thinks that it's fun fun fun fun and makes her look forward to the weekend.
• One of Holly's favourite past times is speaking surreptitiously in song lyrics.

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