The five courses in the gender analytics specialization benefit from an extraordinary roster of faculty, both leading practitioners and senior faculty members at the Rotman School of Management. I've worked with all of them for many years and I count them as my friends as well as my colleagues. These faculty have global experience working on a broad range of issues relating to diversity, inclusion, analytics, design and leadership. Together, we will help you build skills in understanding gender dynamics, collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data using gender based insights to design policies, products, services and processes, and become a transformation leader. In this video you'll get to meet all of them. They'll introduce themselves again at the beginning of the sessions their teaching. >> Hello I'm Nouman Ashraf and I am Assistant Professor at the Rotman School of Management and teaching fellow at the Institute for Gender and the Economy. My pronouns are he, him, his. I'm excited to be part of this learning journey, because it allows us to really connect two important things. The first of these is leadership. And the second is transformation. >> Hi, my name is Karen Sihra. My pronouns are she, her, and hers. I have been an inclusion and diversity practitioner in the academic or corporate setting for the last 20 some years. I come to the work with a business acumen of 17 years working within corporate environments. I'm also the mother to a five year old named Rhea who is the light of my life. >> Hi, I'm Brian Silverman, and I'll be working with you on quantitative data collection and analysis. I'm a Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. I frequently teach courses on statistical analysis, and my research applies such techniques to uncover meaningful patterns in data. Patterns that can help managers and policymakers make informed decisions. One of my current research projects focuses on the different benefits that women and men get from the social networks that they create. Another project explores the extent to which people with different political views avoid working with each other on teams. Both projects imply consequences for individuals and also for the organizations to which they belong. And both generate recommendations for steps that organizations can take to address these challenges. >> Hi, I'm Chanel Grenaway and my pronouns are she, her, and hers. I'm a gender based analysis consultant primarily working in the nonprofit sector. My passion lies in building the capacity of organizations to embed equitable practices within their projects, programs and policies. I'll be talking about community based engagement. >> Hi there, my name is Mark Leung and my pronouns, are he, him, and his. I am the former director of Rotman Design Works, which is the business design lab here at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. My specialty is in human centered innovation and business redesign. And it's all about bringing a human centered lens to problem solving, and the way we think. And so I'm really excited to be able to teach you some of the principles of human centered design and really see the intersection of design and gender analytics as you bring this back into your organization. >> My name is Nika Stelman. My pronouns are she, her, and hers. I am a design strategist at Bridgeable, a human centered design firm here in Toronto. And I'm excited to lead you through a human centered design course in the specialization. >> Hello everyone, my name is Jia Lin Xie. I'm the Magna Professor at Rotman School of Management. I was born and raised in China. I joined U of T in 1992 after I finished my PhD. I'm in the field of organizational behavior. My research areas are job design, job stress and cross cultural management. I teach courses like leadership, team management, organizational behavior and cross cultural management for PhD, MBA, EMBA, EDP and the undergraduate program. >> And finally let me tell you a bit more about me and why I got motivated to bring this course to you. As I said before, I'm the Director of the University of Toronto's Institute for Gender and the Economy. But that wasn't always the fact. In fact, I'm an innovation scholar by training. I worked for many years as an innovation specialist in the consulting firm, McKinsey and Company, and then left to get my PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology so that I can move to an academic career. After teaching for a number of years at the Wharton School, I moved to Canada. My research has always been about how organizations create and respond to innovations. I wrote the business bestseller, Creative Destruction to capture these ideas. But over my career, I observed the very slow progress on gender equality and became convinced that this was because we were stuck in old ways of doing things. I realized that innovation skills could be applied to social challenges, and in fact solving these social challenges could lead to really powerful and transformational innovations as well. That's what led me to found the Institute for Gender and the Economy in 2016. I wanted to treat gender equality as an innovation challenge. And even more recently I wrote a book called the 360 Corporation from stakeholder tradeoffs to transformation to expand these ideas from gender to other issues such as sustainability. Through my research and teaching, I came to understand that one of the biggest barriers to progress is that people don't know how to think and analyze with gender. It's a skill gap that this course is designed to address. My hypothesis is that if we all learn how to generate intersectional gender based insights, we'll be able to create more inclusive innovation, and these innovations will be good for equity in our society and they will be good for policy, impact and business performance. So that's my hope for this course and my hope for you.