OBA Presents: Holiday Hours – A CPD Podcast

The Value of Mentorship and the Even Greater Value of Sponsorship

Episode Summary

How does fostering a culture of mentorship and sponsorship advance equality? Episode 5 is a highly inspirational conversation highlighting the life-changing roles mentors and sponsors can play in the life of a lawyer. Creating opportunities that may have not otherwise existed for someone is one very impactful way to advance equality and make our profession more inclusive.

Episode Notes

Lynne Vicars is the Immediate Past President of the Ontario Bar Association. She is also the Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer and Senior Counsel for Heuristica Discovery Counsel LLP.

Rocio Gainza is a Senior Manager, Global Sanctions at Scotiabank

Get more examples of what lawyers, law firms and other professions are doing to advance gender equality and obtain 5 h 45 m of EDI hours by watching the full and recorded program from the OBA’s Momentum Summit.

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CREDITS

Paula Todd, Interviewer and Professor, School of Media, Seneca College
Mary Jackson, Blake, Cassels, & Graydon LLP
Lynne Vicars, Host and OBA Immediate Past President
Rocio Gainza, Scotiabank
Roy Bornmann, Policy and Programming Lawyer
Rachel Winer, Producer
Andrea Miller, Audio Technician