Course Description:

This workshop will be presented virtually, live from jona’s home in New Mexico. Leadership in the fire service demands self-confidence, and trust of one’s own knowledge, judgement and capabilities. While most women have successfully challenged sexist comments, behaviours, policies, and organizational structures to get to their positions, the impact of internalized sexism often still holds us back–since a lifetime of sexist messages causes us to doubt our judgement, our competence, and our leadership capacity. Picking up from Part 1, we’ll help each other dig deeper and explore strategies to interrupt our patterns of self-doubt, and to support other women, so we can all perform our very best.

Instructor(s):

jona olsson, Assistant Chief (Training & Safety), Latir Volunteer Fire Department

jona is the director of cultural bridges to justice, offering cultural diversity programs for non-profit groups. She is the Fire & EMS Chief of the Latir Volunteer Fire Department in northern New Mexico, having served as Chief for 16 years. Joining her two passions – emergency service and social justice – jona offers programs to individual departments, brigades, and fire conferences in the U. S., the UK, Canada, and Australia.  jona lives in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico, with her wife, Jane, and several rescued, 4-footed friends including Bader.