WiC Victoria - Educate-May: Compensation Negotiation Workshop with The Thoughtful Co.

Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Time: 4:45pm – 8:30pm

Location: Sherri Bell Hall, Wilna Thomas Building at Camosun College, Lansdowne Campus

3100 Foul Bay Road, Victoria

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WiC Victoria is excited to launch our new annual flagship event series: Educate-May!

Join us for a workshop with The Thoughtful Co, a female-founded consultancy centered on advancing equity for women in the workplace. They provide workshops on high-impact topics focusing on enabling recognition, opportunity and influence for women.

This year’s session topic is: “Negotiate for the Compensation You Deserve”.

Key takeaways will include:

• What pieces of compensation & benefits are appropriate to push on (beyond salary).
• How compensation decisions are made within employers.
• What you should and shouldn’t use as rationale for a pay increase.
• The biases women face in negotiations and how to work around them.
• When you should be bringing up compensation and how to frame the ask.

Doors open at 4:45 pm, with the workshop commencing at 6:00 pm. It will run roughly 1 hour, with socializing to follow.

Appetizers will be provided, drinks will be available for purchase.

Your Presenters:

Jillian Climie (she/her)

Jillian Climie, Co-Founder of The Thoughtful Co, has spent her career advising and leading teams in executive compensation and corporate governance, both as a consultant and in-house at two global retailers. Most recently at Lululemon, she led the global equity compensation and executive compensation programs. After taking a pause, she realized she wanted more of three things in her professional life: thoroughness, passion and freedom. She Co-Founded The Thoughtful Co so she can leverage her niche and technical experience, coupled with her passion for gender equity, to empower women to get paid what they deserve.

Sophie Warwick (she/her)

Sophie Warwick, Co-Founder of the Thoughtful Co, specializes in developing in-house gender equity policies and chairing Employee Resource Groups and advocacy groups. She uses her data analysis expertise from her engineering background to define targets and track growth and retention. In 2018, she Co-Founded Women in Consulting Engineering (WCE), a non-profit organization with over500 members and monthly events to support and empower women in engineering. She co-founded The Thoughtful Co so she could build more gender inclusive workplaces and build representation of women at senior levels in all industries.