Our guest this time is Larysa Grant, a Breaking Barriers Program Coordinator at Times Change Women’s Employment Service, a non-profit helping women find meaningful employment. Larysa loves helping people grow in their professions and use their talents to the fullest. At Breaking Barriers, she helps women remove barriers to entering the jobs they like. She also offers training, consulting, and coaching for small - and medium-sized businesses in diversity, inclusion, leadership development and creating a sense of belonging at organizations.Questions For Larysa Include:Tell us about the mission of Times Change Women’s Employment ServiceWhy should businesses care about diversity and inclusion? Why is your program free for small and medium-sized organizations? What rationale is behind this decision? Research shows that anti-bias training is not always efficient. What is the solution? How can we learn more about you and Times Change Women’s Employment Service? More About Larysa GrantPrior to this Larysa was a mentoring coach with The Neighbourhood Organization in Toronto. Her responsibilities include matching job seekers with professional mentors; and coaching them in the journey of achieving professional goals.Larysa worked as a recruiter for the CDI Corporation, a professional services firm that places qualified information technology professionals with government, banking and transit agencies.She has also served as a director of the board for the United Nations Association in Canada and was a board member at the North York Women’s Centre.We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared by our guests and sponsors are entirely independent of The HR Gazette, HRchat Podcast and Iceni Media Inc.   Support the showFeature Your Brand on the HRchat PodcastThe HRchat show has had 100,000s of downloads and is frequently listed as one of the most popular global podcasts for HR pros, Talent execs and leaders. It is ranked in the top ten in the world based on traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. The podcast is also ranked as the Best Canadian HR Podcast by FeedSpot and one of the top 10% most popular shows by Listen Score. Want to share the story of how your business is helping to shape the world of work? We offer sponsored episodes, audio adverts, email campaigns, and a host of other options. Check out packages here. Follow us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our newsletter Check out our in-person events