Our Turn

In Our Turn, Kirstine Stewart, Twitter’s VP of North American media partnerships – and recently named as one of Canadian Business’s Power 50 of 2016 list because she ‘helps women discover their leadership potential’ – draws on her extensive experience to share her smart and practical approach to business.
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nKirstine Stewart has joined the ranks of technology leaders Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer, but she has come to that position by a very different route. She got her first job when she applied for an entry-level position at a film distribution house. Having worked her way up from the bottom – under women and men, leaders good and bad – she believes it’s time we looked past the question of how women might create change in the working world and exploit the fact that profound change is already under way.
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nThe digital revolution, and the wave of millennials who are entering the workforce with very different expectations than the generations who preceded them, have created an environment that demands a new style of leader – one with attributes and perspectives that make women the natural front-runners.
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nThe opportunity is there. The question Stewart poses and then tackles is how do we seize it? KIRSTINE STEWART (author)