In the movie Julie and Julia, a young writer named Julie is inspired to channel the spirit of the exuberant chef Julia Child.
If you were to do a movie about her role as CEO of the BC Pension Corp, Laura Nashman says it would be called Me and Obama.
Like former U.S. president Barack Obama, she started her current leadership role in 2009. “I too in my own way had big plans and I needed my team and organization to be energized and enthusiastic about the future,” she told the crowd at the Fairmont Waterfront on Wednesday when she accepted a 2017 Influential Women In Business award from Business in Vancouver.
Named as one of the Top 100 of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network in 2010, Nashman said she channelled Obama’s ability to be a positive influence in the world.
“I rode the Obama train of hope and change,” she said, adding that one of the things she respected the most was Obama’s “tone at the top.”
“As leaders,” she said, “what we say and how we say it matters.”
She’s never met Obama; nor does she think she ever will. But she likes to think she’s on the same path and that, as the Rev. Alvin Love said of Obama, she too has become the person she was meant to be.
As to the man currently occupying Obama's chair at the White House, Nashman said, "Sadly, the Me and Obama screenplay came to an abrupt end."
You can read Business in Vancouver’s profile of Laura Nashman here.
