The topic of this conversation is about creating inclusive contracts. You might be thinking that this is a bit obscure. Why should we be talking about the law and contracting in a set of discussions on designing for everyone? In this episode, we are going to hear from Joy Anderson, Charlene Theodore and Sara Wolfe about how we can explore the potentially biased impacts of the legal infrastructure in our economy and how to make it better. 

Featured guests: 

 

Joy Anderson is a prominent leader at the intersection of finance and social change and has been instrumental in shaping the fields of gender lens investing and innovative finance. She is founder and president of Criterion Institute, the leading think tank on using finance as a tool for social change, which demonstrates new possibilities through its ground-breaking research, innovative trainings, convenings and institutional engagement. In 2021, she authored a seminal report, “Disrupting Fields: Addressing Power Dynamics in the Fields of Climate Finance and Gender Lens Investing.”  

 

Charlene Theodore is Chief Inclusion Officer at McCarthy Tétrault. Committed to concrete action in advancing the Firm’s core mission to accelerate diversity, inclusion and corporate social responsibility, Charlene oversees McCarthy Tétrault’s award-winning Inclusion Now program. Charlene has a unique understanding of the interconnection between the legal profession and EDI, and how to achieve tangible results. As the first Black president of the Ontario Bar Association, Charlene designed and implemented a series of initiatives for law firms and Corporate Canada to reimagine workplaces.  

 

Sara Wolfe is Anishinaabe with family roots in Northern Ontario. She is a Registered Nurse, a Registered Midwife, and holds her master’s in business administration from the Rotman School. Sara has been the Director of the Indigenous Innovation Initiative at Grand Challenges Canada, one of the largest social impact investors in Canada, whose work is dedicated to supporting innovators and communities to identify and solve their own challenges, drive inclusive growth, and improve all life through Indigenous innovation that is by and for Indigenous peoples.    

Moderator: Sarah Kaplan is a Distinguished Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and the Founding Director of GATE. She is a co-author of the bestselling business book, Creative Destruction. Her latest book, The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation, is based on her award-winning course at the Rotman School.  

 

Gender Analytics is a way to analyze your products, services, processes and policies with a gender lens to uncover hidden opportunities for innovation and improved effectiveness by considering gender, race, Indigeneity, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation and other identities. Learn more here: www.genderanalytics.org  

 

Want to hear more from the Institute for Gender and the Economy? Check out our signature podcast series, Busted, which busts prominent myths about gender and the economy! 

 

Produced by: Sarah Kaplan, Lechin Lu and Carmina Ravanera  

Edited by: Ian Gormely