International Women’s Day

DIVERSEcity X Minerva Women’s Leadership Forum

Thank you for attending the third annual DIVERSEcity x Minerva Women’s Leadership Forum this International Women’s Day!

What does it mean to be a women leader today? What are the challenges and opportunities we face in our families, communities and workplaces? And how can we uplift and learn from each other to advance our careers and lives?

Just in time for International Women’s Day 2025, DIVERSEcity and Minerva BC teamed up to present the third edition of our Women’s Leadership Forum, to encourage women to grow, lead and bloom!

This year, the event took place on Thursday, March 6, 2025, 10 am – 2 pm,  at the Anvil Centre in New Westminster, celebrating women — both emerging and established — through a panel discussion, interactive activities and more.

Check out this publication for a snapshot of the connections and takeaways attendees leave with to apply in their lives, workplaces and communities.
Download the Advancing Women’s Leadership publication

2025 sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

 

Silver Sponsors

Media Sponsor:

Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities

Want to be involved as a future sponsor or exhibitor? Email marketing@dcrs.ca or download our sponsorship and information package here.

In addition to full tables set aside for sponsors, we offer low-cost or free half tables for women’s focused organizations.

International Women’s Day Donation

Uplifting women and women’s-focused organizations

From 2016 to 2023, DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society honoured International Women’s Day by recognizing women’s-focused organizations with a donation to support their work.

2023 donation announcement

For 2023, DIVERSEcity donated a bursary (at a value of $1,500) to Minerva’s Emerging Leaders Program to one of the attendees at the DIVERSEcity x Minerva Women’s Leadership Forum. It’s a 10-week part-time development program for new managers and early career leaders that improves participants’ leadership abilities as well as their confidence to manage people and teams, all while growing their professional networks and power base.

In 2022, DIVERSEcity presented a donation of $1,000 to:

  • Pacific Association of First Nations Women, an association that envisions a matriarchal community where all Indigenous women in BC are safe and respected with a sense of belonging and connection to cultural traditions.

The donation was co-sponsored (value $500) by Pacific Community Resources Society.

In previous years, we have donated $500 to: 

2022 donation co-sponsored by: