Part 1 of Leading Women: University of Regina associate professor Erica Carleton says the gender split in the upper echelons of Canada's workplaces is "not even close" to equal, and there's plenty of work to do to improve women's visibility.

Part Two of Leading Women: Co-op Refinery Complex general manager Jennifer Stiglitz is the first women to helm western Canada's largest oil refinery, and one of three female leaders running the influential company in tandem for the first time in history.

Part Three of Leading Women: Penny McCune, first female president and CEO of SGI and one of only three women to lead a provincial Crown Corporation in Saskatchewan, started at the public insurance group with a temp job in 1985 — now, she runs the place.

Part Four of Leading Women: Saskatchewan RCMP Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore has a very simple secret to leadership that has shaped her decades of service in red serge: "take care of your people and your community."

Part Five of Leading Women: As the first woman appointed president of the First Nations University of Canada, Dr. Jacqueline Ottmann finds her work simply to be fulfilling a life's purpose, to raise and improve the lives of Indigenous people in her community.