“My advice to all the women out there is to rehearse your script,” began Louise Turner. “Actors are impressive in movies because they have a script, and in life, we should always have a script that lets us be the leader we want to be.” The President of the Premier’s Technology Council, Turner was one of eight panellists at the Leadership Stories event held at the Ismaili Centre, Burnaby.
Organised by the Aga Khan Education Board for Canada, the event launched the national Technovation Challenge, a programme designed to inspire teenage girls to explore studies and careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
The Technovation Challenge is an applied Computer Science / Entrepreneurship programme where high school girls create and pitch their own mobile apps
via The Ismaili: Eight dynamic women share leadership stories at the Ismaili Centre, Burnaby.