July 31, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.
By Adam Cabrera.
A company working to pave the best way for girls within the historically male-dominated business.
On this episode of Roofing Street Journeys, Heidi J. Ellsworth takes a visit throughout the globe to talk with Jenny Maxwell, chairperson of New Zealand Ladies in Roofing (NZWiR). A novel group within the male-dominated roofing business of New Zealand, the group gives alternatives and help for girls on this sector. Collectively, Heidi and Jenny focus on the function and influence of NZWiR in addition to what the longer term has in retailer for it.
Jenny, who began a roofing firm along with her husband in 2009, has been main the Roofing Affiliation of New Zealand since 2020. “I used to be approached to place my hand up and seemed to really go on to the manager, which I did in 2016. So right here I’m, all these years later, and nearly to enter one other two-year time period as president,” she says.
The concept of NZWiR was impressed by Jenny’s go to to the Nationwide Ladies in Roofing Day occasion within the U.S. It sparked a ardour in her to foster an analogous supportive community for girls within the roofing business in New Zealand. “It actually made me passionate. It actually stirred one thing in me,” Jenny says. Regardless of New Zealand’s small measurement and the isolation many within the business would possibly really feel, Jenny believes that the NZWiR has the potential to carry folks collectively.
To additional encourage ladies within the business, NZWiR launched a scholarship for first-time attendees to the Roofing Affiliation of New Zealand’s annual convention, offering them a chance to see the business as a complete. Together with this, they’re launching a brand new scholarship this November for a management and journey course known as Outward Sure, selling each private {and professional} development.
The NZWiR follows the 4 pillars of recruiting, mentoring, schooling and networking, just like its U.S. counterpart. Jenny’s imaginative and prescient and the initiatives of NZWiR not solely search to empower ladies within the roofing business but in addition considerably contribute to the business’s development and improvement in New Zealand.