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28 Leaders To Watch: Meet Manpreet Dhillon

28 Leaders To Watch: Meet Manpreet Dhillon

This February, all month long, we’re honouring the work of 28 inspiring leaders. Women who are drawing upon and celebrating their culture while making a lasting difference in their community using their gifts. From authors and teachers, CEOs to entrepreneurs, not-for-profit directors, artists, and more, these women are changing the face of leadership.

These are truly women to watch and veza community is so pleased to share their brilliance.

May their stories inspire YOU to rise.

Meet Manpreet Dhillon.

Manpreet is a Certified Personal and Business Coach, and a Certified Human Resources Professional with a Masters in Organizational Management. She brings over 15 years of leadership and community development expertise to the table and her experience spans program development and strategy implementation, Governance and Organizational Management, Small & Medium Business Consulting, and much more.

As sought-after consultant, coach and workshop facilitator, Manpreet has provided leadership, HR and diversity training and strategy for clients like the UN affiliate: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, City of Vancouver, University of British Columbia, Blenz Coffee, 7-Eleven, and Terramera, as well as a host of tech and biotech companies, Canadian political parties, and non-profit organizations.

Founded to address the diversity gap and to foster inclusion around the boardroom table, Veza Community offers enriching personal and professional development opportunities. These opportunities train and mentor female leaders of various cultural backgrounds to speak up with confidence and contribute their unique vantage point and expertise to create positive change in the entrepreneurial, not-for-profit, government, and corporate sectors they serve.

So tell us, Manpreet:  What inspires you most? What motivates you to get up every morning?

Knowing the people I meet or connect with are doing their best, and that I can contribute to the lives of others by making them feel just a little more empowered. I choose to leave this world a better place than what it is now. A world where there is more love and connection than ever before. A world where people lift each other up and support each other to be better.

I have the opportunity to play a role in that.

How do you feel that your actions teach or inspire others?

I teach others to move through the mindset crap to realize we have a bigger purpose here. The gifts that we have are not for ourselves, but to share with the world. It is important to act as a leader, regardless of who you are and what your title is, as the brighter you shine as a leader, you give permission to others to shine as well.

What is one change you’d like to see in the world?

I would like child sexual abuse ended. There are individuals and families impacted by someone’s need to have power over another being. Through the work I do, I would like to empower individuals so they can empower others, therefore eliminating the need to take power from someone else.

Which of your contributions to date have given you the greatest sense of pride?

Having my story “Thriving while Grieving” published in the Chicken Soup for Soul: Time to Thrive edition. I know many people found solace in their grieving journey through that story.  

We hope you’ve enjoyed getting to know Manpreet! Learn more about her work and stay connected via her social media presence @vezacommunity

Ready to RISE as a leader in your own right?

Get your copy of veza community’s NEW Feminine Leadership Guide. It’s our gift to YOU.

Inside the Feminine Leadership Guide you’ll receive a series of activating journal prompts and action exercises to inspire your next steps on the journey to greater impact.

28 Leaders To Watch: Meet Chantal Carter Taylor

28 Leaders To Watch: Meet Chantal Carter Taylor

This February, all month long, we’re honouring the work of 28 inspiring leaders. Women who are drawing upon and celebrating their culture while making a lasting difference in their community using their gifts. From authors and teachers, CEOs to entrepreneurs, not-for-profit directors, artists, and more, these women are changing the face of leadership.

These are truly women to watch and veza community is so pleased to share their brilliance.

May their stories inspire YOU to rise.

Meet Chantal Carter Taylor.

Born and raised in Montreal, Chantal Carter Taylor is an entrepreneur who has worked in the fashion industry for over 20 years, as a Stylist, Image Consultant, and magazine Style Director. She was a key player in winning the Kenneth R. Wilson Award for best art direction and ranked 3rd best speech in a Toastmasters International area speech competition. She also appreciates creating high-end simplicity in fashion and food. She displayed this talent as a contestant in the 1st episode of Four Weddings Canada, winning 1st place for her wedding. Chantal’s passion to uplift women of colour through fashion inspired her to develop a diverse skin tone intimates line called Love & Nudes. This brand is more than just fashion, it’s a social movement connecting women and celebrating the beauty of difference through social media and events. She believes apparel and cosmetics should be accessible to all in the manner that allows them to showcase their personal style.

Chantal is a person who never felt like she fit into societal expectations and obligations, e.g. working in a job she hated simply because the pay was decent. She always wanted to do something more, and meaningful. Chantal is happy when she’s being creative, socializing and hanging out with family who love her no matter what! Finally, she is a dark chocolate fanatic and is currently obsessed with white wine, as well as sparkling and special spirits.

So tell us, Chantal: What inspires you most? What motivates you to get up every morning?

Doing work I want to do, not work I have to do.

Sometimes I am not inspired each day and that’s okay. I understand that we all have things we must do whether we love it or not, but the bigger picture has to be something I love, where I can use my creativity and the best parts of me for something meaningful. Right now it’s Love & Nudes.

How do you feel that your actions teach or inspire others?

I feel that I embody consistency and perseverance.

What is one change you’d like to see in the world?

Representation for people of colour at the highest level everywhere: in medicine, media, government, business, law, etc.

Which of your contributions to date have given you the greatest sense of pride?

I am really proud to have launched a line of bras and panties that reflect the skin tones of women of colour, and of all the things that I had to do to get it launched!

We hope you’ve enjoyed getting to know Chantal! Learn more about her work and stay connected via her Facebook and Instagram @loveandnudes, or on Twitter: @loveandnudes_

Ready to RISE as a leader in your own right?

Get your copy of veza community’s NEW Feminine Leadership Guide. It’s our gift to YOU.

Inside the Feminine Leadership Guide you’ll receive a series of activating journal prompts and action exercises to inspire your next steps on the journey to greater impact.

Emotional Intelligence

“Emotional intelligence is the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn from, manage, understand and explain emotions.” Reference from http://eqi.org/eidefs.htm

Emotional intelligence influences our behaviour, thoughts, feelings, values and interactions with others. It helps us understand how we are from emotional body perspective.

For years, the intelligence quotient (IQ) has been measured to see how smart people are. In the last twenty years, many organizations and employers have started to look at emotional intelligence as a method is assessing the suitability of candidates for positions. The sense is if an individual has a high emotional intelligence they will be able to navigate through almost any situation or find a way to navigate their way through their interactions with others.

Emotional intelligence can be measured through a variety of different tests such as Myer Briggs, Leadership 360, Strength Finders, etc. Each of the tests provides insight into the individual’s makeup so that they can better understand themselves therefore understand what their comfort zones are. In order to grow and flourish, they understand that it is important to be uncomfortable as that is when the growth happens. Through these tests, they recognize how they can be comfortably uncomfortable in order to really step into who they really are.

Love yourself first

In the past few months I have been looking at the concept of coming with the viewpoint of love for everything I did. I was constantly asking myself the question “What would love do?” and wow did it guide me in ways that I wouldn’t have even imagined.

I would do things that didn’t make sense to me but when I asked myself the question and did them, they felt right. The situation would turn out better than imagined, the other person would feel so much love and things just kept happening.

But there was a niggly feeling inside me that the question needed to change. I was missing something. I felt that I was sacrificing even when it some cases I wasn’t but I felt that I was compromising something.

Then it sparked….the better question to ask is “Out of love for myself and in this situation or this person, what inspired action do I take?” and wow, in an instant I realize I am putting myself first. I am taking care of my needs before I take care of others.

Are you facing a challenging situation or wondering what your next step should be? I invite you to ask yourself “Out of love for myself and in this situation or this person, what inspired action do I take?” and LISTEN to what your heart says.

As a result of this question, I decided to refocus my attention back on the beautiful community I have been a part of.

I invite you to join me in one of the two events that are dear to my heart:

Business Strategy Day on April 24th 10am-3pm where we will spend the day focusing on you, your vision, and what you need to contribute more to your community and your business.

 

 

Attention Smart Successful Women: 3 Surprising Reasons You’re Still Single and What You Can Do About It

Attention Smart Successful Women: 3 Surprising Reasons You’re Still Single and What You Can Do About It

Attention Smart Successful Women:

3 Surprising Reasons You’re Still Single and What You Can Do About It

by Kathleen Graham, The Love Magnet Mentor

This is me with my husband David. We were married this April in a dreamy destination wedding in the Caribbean. I am incredibly blessed to have him!! He is a powerful, amazing man who cherishes and loves me deeply. We have an extraordinary connection and I know he is my soul’s true match. We laugh, we play, we cry, and we grow together. It’s a wildly magical adventure and I’m so lucky to have called him into my life. kathleen

 

But it wasn’t always like this …. I had horrible luck in love and was chronically single until I was 33! It was very frustrating and confusing for me. I knew I was a great catch. I was a smart, ambitious, passionate and loving woman. I had a lot to offer.  I wondered what I was doing wrong and why no one wanted me to be theirs. I attracted all the wrong men: unavailable, uninteresting, insensitive, flaky, noncommittal, not on my level (like, at all!).. you name it, I went on dates with them. And they usually didn’t call afterwards, which was equally heartbreaking. It was exhausting and I often doubted if my soul’s true match even existed. It was really hard to stay hopeful with my disastrous track record.

And then I discovered some things. It was about this time I got exposed to Tony Robbins and he was talking about relationships. Specifically masculine and feminine energies and attraction principles. It was all new to me and completely blew my mind. A light bulb went off in my head. Whoa. I got it. I had developed habits, from a very young age of being a self-directed, headstrong young girl that were all masculine. I was driven. Incredibly focused. An amazing problem solver. I could get things done and figured out very quickly. I was adept at cutting through nonsense to the truth of what was really going on.. like, let’s get to the point… with friends and co-workers. I loved to simplify. I liked to “hunt”,  whether for a man online or the right blouse at the store. All masculine. Fantastic for success in my career and making things happen, but terrible for my love life! Turns out I was using little to no feminine energy. No wonder I wasn’t attracting a strong powerful masculine man, the type my heart truly longed for. I had a ton of blind spots unconsciously sabotaging what I truly wanted!

So I set aside my love life and set about discovering my femininity, which was really foreign! I spent years getting to know what it meant and how to “be” this way. In doing so, I stumbled upon a wildly empowering solution to my single girl woes. As I made the shifts in my energy and my thinking, I changed. I became the woman I’d always been born to be: my most authentic self. This was clearly very attractive to amazing men, who started to show up left and right! It was this shift in myself that allowed me to attract my phenomenal husband.

Now I share these strategies with smart successful women everywhere and help them find their powerful, masculine man.

What I see out there when I talk with single, really amazing, driven women all over the country is that there are very clear commonalities. I discovered 3 habits/ways of thinking that are keeping them stuck in a pattern of being single, lonely and unfulfilled. Just like I was.

  1. Thinking there’s something wrong with you

There’s a small part of you inside that secretly wonders “Why hasn’t love happened for me yet? Am I broken or something?”. And as a result-oriented woman, you are quick to do some digging to determine what needs to change and then get to work “fixing” yourself. So being single, of course, gives you much needed time to work on yourself.

The problem with thinking like this is that you fall into the high-quality-man-repelling-cycle of not feeling good enough, at the unconscious and most important level. The unconscious is crazy important because it controls what you attract into your life! Your energy becomes one of not being enough. Your personal signal that you are sending out to the world is “I’m not enough and I’m not worthy of love right now.” And guess what that attracts? Nothing! It keeps you closed off from love. You REPEL exactly what you seek.

2 things happen Once you stop making this mistake:

1) You begin to relax, which allows your more open, magnetic feminine energy to awaken. Your feminine energy is critical for attracting a powerful masculine man who can match you.

2) You open up your capacity to start truly loving yourself: just as you are. You are a powerful woman and it’s time to fully own that. And when you love yourself, it shows: it turns you into a LOVE Magnet!

 

  1. Always controlling everything

You are a strong independent woman. You know exactly what you want, what you like and don’t like. You are self sufficient. You have gotten really comfortable making decisions and being in control of your life. You aren’t sure about how it’s going to work in a relationship? Is your man supposed to lead you? You definitely don’t want to be disempowered or lose your voice, but you know you want a real man who can match you. This can be confusing.

When you are in the habit of wearing this ‘controlling energy’ all the time or what I call the ‘I’ve got this’ syndrome, your energy becomes closed off. This leaves no room to receive anyone into your life and immediately puts a wall up between you and your powerful man. This energy tends to attract the type of men who are gentler and more “feminine”. While it may be exciting in the beginning, it will inevitably become draining, passionless and unfulfilling because the energies are reversed. He is running the feminine energy and you are running the masculine energy. You won’t fully trust him, will resent him for not stepping up and be confused and question if there are any “Real Men” out there.

This is the ultimate pain because as a strong woman, you especially need a strong man who matches you. You must feel his strength, solidity, and that he can handle you.  

When you become less controlling, it turns on your feminine receptivity which is very attractive to powerful masculine men. This is the energetic match where hot, passionate, fulfilling relationships become possible! For lasting passion, you must have a man connected to his masculine and a woman connected to her feminine – this polarity is what creates the spark!

  1. Doubting there’s a man out there who can match and love you (and wondering if you should lower your standards)

You are a smart, driven woman. You have vision. You are inspired to live an extraordinary life and not settle for less than your dreams. Is there a guy out there who could possibly match you and grow with you? You have consistently been disappointed by men  so you have serious doubts about what’s possible, and honestly it feel like there’s such a tiny pool of great men out there!

So you have started considering “less than” men, considered giving guys a chance that aren’t as evolved or as successful as you. Or when you meet amazing powerful men, you bend or reduce yourself to fit who you think they want you to be or to avoid being intimidating. You’ll be funny, easygoing, flexible. Definitely not too emotional or demanding, because you don’t want to be “That Girl”.

When you aren’t fully authentic with men, you suppress who you really are. When you hide parts of yourself, like your vulnerability and fears, it actually does the opposite of what you want. It creates distance. It pushes men away and prevents intimacy. When you stifle yourself it is a turn off for powerful men because you are being inauthentic and they can’t feel you. This is a pattern where you end up hurt, sad and pissed off that you can’t seem to find the good men.

It’s time to start to own all of who you are, be fully authentic, and trust that your guy will love ALL of you.

When you allow yourself to reveal your imperfections and stop hiding them, you open up the possibility for exquisite intimacy. When you let yourself speak up, say how you really feel and let your emotions come through this allows men to see and truly feel you. it creates the space for you to magnetize your soul’s true match into your life: the man who is designed to love all of you! Powerful men respect a woman who speaks her mind, allows her vulnerabilities to be fully visible, who leads with her heart and isn’t afraid to be seen.

What’s Next?

If this feels all too familiar to you then you’re in the right place. You’re not alone and there is something you can do about it, right now. You don’t want to miss my upcoming webinar where I reveal so much more, including what it really takes to find and keep an amazing man…

“Attract Your Powerful Man” Webinar  Get FREE access now

 

About the Author

Kathleen Graham is the creator of Wild Woman in Love. She is joyfully married to the love of her life, David, and they currently live in Connecticut. She shows successful women how to be a magnet for love so they can attract and keep a powerful man who cherishes and fulfills them. Her clients have experienced the deep satisfaction of attracting amazing men, thanks to the strategies she teaches.

To learn more, visit Kathleen’s site here

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