About Holly Catalfamo
Holly Catalfamo, Ed.D., is an award-winning educator who combines strong academic credentials with direct leadership experience in both the private and public sectors.
She is currently the Coordinator of the Honours Bachelor of Administration – Human Resources Program at Niagara College and has been a full-time professor for over 16 years. She also teaches regularly in the MBA program at Brock University.
Holly Catalfamo’s passion for global development has enriched the lives of students in Canada and abroad by focusing on the development of school-to-work initiatives for vulnerable individuals.
In 2018, Holly Catalfamo was awarded the Gold Leadership Excellence Award from Colleges & Institutes Canada, and in 2016 she joined the 3M Council as a 3M National Teaching and Learning Fellow when she was awarded the 2016 National College Sector Educator Award.
In 2015, Holly Catalfamo won the Senior HR Leader Award for Niagara from the Human Resources Professional Association of Niagara. Holly earned her Doctor of Education from the University of Toronto.
You can find Holly Catalfamo on linkedIn and Twitter.
About Paul Harrietha
Paul Harrietha, Ph.D., is a career consultant, business owner, senior executive, and board chair specializing in leadership, policy, and change management. Most recently, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of the OMERS Sponsors Corporation, the design arm of one of Canada’s leading defined benefit pension plans.
Paul has a doctorate in leadership and policy and currently serves as executive in residence at St. Bonaventure University. He is also chair of the advisory board for Niagara University in Ontario and a founding principal of The CAPS Leadership Group, a closely integrated team of highly experienced executives, academics, educators, and advisors committed to the pursuit of gender equity.
You can find Paul Harrietha on LinkedIn.
The Invisible Rules: What’s Really Holding Women Back in Business—and How to Fix It
In corporate Canada you see this scenario play out all the time: Highly qualified and ambitious women enter the workforce all charged up and ready to change the world, only to be disappointed as they watch male colleagues pass them on the climb up the corporate ladder. Then the women drop out. It’s no surprise, then, that women today occupy only 10% of the highest-paying jobs in corporate Canada.
That’s not a very impressive statistic after all the effort to increase the number of women in corporate leadership. What’s the problem? The authors of this book, Paul Harrietha, a former CEO, and Holly Catalfamo, an accomplished academic, argue that women are held back by a series of invisible rules that tilt the playing field in favor of white men.
They back up their case with deep interviews with 50 senior female Canadian executives who talk about the real-life challenges in the C-Suite and on the way up.
This book aims to expose these hidden rules and show ambitious women how they can get ahead — and how executives, particularly men, can level the playing field in the future.
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