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022: Brendan Sweeney, Managing Director, Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing

April 20, 2021 Nour Hachem-Fawaz
Perfectly Unfiltered
022: Brendan Sweeney, Managing Director, Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing
Show Notes

Brendan Sweeney is the Managing Director of the Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing. Prior to his appointment with the Trillium Network, Brendan served as the Project Manager and Research Director of the Automotive Policy Research Centre (APRC) at McMaster University, where he also taught in the DeGroote School of Business and the School of Labour Studies. Brendan holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Queen’s University and a B.A. in Labour Studies from McMaster. He has also held appointments in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University and the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba and spent a year at the University of Washington as a Visiting Fulbright Scholar.

Brendan joins Nour Hachem-Fawaz to discuss why gender equality is important for the workplace as well as the economy, and what companies can do to improve diversity. Examples of what has worked for others is the focus of Trillum Network's February 2021 report,
Gender Diversity and Ontario Manufacturing: Lessons from Five Leading Companies. The report highlights the work that five Ontario manufacturers have done to bring balance to their workplace by increasing the number of women in their plants and includes strategies, policies, and practices to build diversity and inclusion (and support ongoing initiatives). 

Are you working towards building a more balanced workforce? Brendan wants to hear from you!

Brendan Sweeney, Managing Director, Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing:


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