Nicole Taylor nic.taylor045@torontomu.ca Area of Interdisciplinary Specialization: Strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation Supervisor(s): Alison Kemper Nicole is interested in the intersection between business, history, and gender in mature industries. In particular, she explores how multinational institutions use language to (re)create power dynamics and how individual women at all levels (ie. entrepreneurs, workers, managers, or executives) shape, and are shaped by, such institutional policies. Windsor, Ontario is her home town and with the current shift from 'automotive' to 'automobility', she is intimately familiar with how the automotive industry is more than just the immediate manufacturing company or SMEs in the supply chain. Indeed, the ebbs and flows of the automotive industry affect whole communities. As coordinator for a non-profit that supports nascent entrepreneurs, she is able to support her community as both researcher and practitioner. As an instructor at a college, she brings her personal and educational expertise to make the classroom simultaneously interactive and informative. Previous research includes a variety of topics ranging from media content analysis of women executives; resilience of entrepreneurs; case studies of women in the film and retail industry; gender differences in digital skill; and the effect of employee engagement on organizational citizenship behaviour. Nicole has earned two master's degrees: an MA in History from the University of Western Ontario (2020) and an MBA from the University of Windsor (2019). She received her BA in History from the University of Ottawa.