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Welcome to the ILead podcast, produced by the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto, where we talk about essential process of leadership development and its human impact on the engineering community. What’s leadership you may ask? At ILead we believe that it’s the skills and mindsets that foster self-awareness, self-efficacy, empathy, teamwork, and the ability to navigate organizations and systems in society that help engineers lead change to build a better world.

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Leading With Purpose: A Conversation with Dr. Emily Moore

December 06, 2021 • Troost ILead • Season 1 • Episode 4

Canada's National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women falls on December 6th. This somber memorial marks the anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, when a man entered a Montreal classroom in 1989 and shot and killed 14 female engineering students. Dr. Emily Moore, Director of Troost ILead, was a chemical engineering student at Queen's University, writing her own engineering exams at the time of the shooting.

In this podcast, Dr. Moore and Troost ILead Associate Director, Annie Simpson, honour the legacy of these 14 women through conversation. She answers our questions about the impact of December 6th on her leadership journey, and how its legacy has informed her choices as a professional, teacher, community-builder, parent, and leader in industry and academia.

Professor Emily Moore was appointed Director of Troost ILead in October, 2018 after more than twenty years in industry. Emily started her career at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada scaling up new materials and processes from the lab to manufacturing. In her 11 years at Xerox, Emily learned a great deal about leading teams and developing new products, becoming a manager and Principal Engineer. Emily then spent 10 years at Hatch, a global engineering firm serving the mining, energy and infrastructure sectors. Emily led international teams to develop new product and service offerings and to deliver major projects, first as the Director of Technology Development and then as Managing Director, Water. Emily was also the inaugural chair of Hatch’s Global Diversity and Inclusion efforts. Emily holds a Bachelor Degree in Engineering Chemistry from Queen’s University and completed a Doctorate in Physical Chemistry from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. In 2016 Emily was recognized as one of 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining and received the SCI Canada Kalev Pugi Award.

This podcast is brought to you by Troost ILead in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, at the University of Toronto.