Our Mentors

Kathleen Baker, P.Eng. 

Kathleen is a chemical engineer who graduated with her undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta in 2012. In 2019, she completed her masters degree in Engineering Safety and Risk Management also from the University of Alberta. She is a chemical engineer in the downstream oil and gas industry and a mom of a baby boy. She enjoys walking and biking in the river valley, cross country skiing, hiking, backcountry camping, spending time with my extended family, travelling and taking swimming lessons with her son. Her core values are family, respect, health, friendship and wisdom. Her core desired feelings are unrushed, connection, presence and joy.

Kathleen can help you with:

• Asking for support, building community and setting up support systems
• Asking for funding for the MoMBA from your employer 
• Abundance mindset in finances and working with Wealth Verse
• Mental health, specifically anxiety and birth trauma 
• Preparing for maternity leave or return to work post maternity leave 
• Using values and core desired feelings in decision making
• Building an active lifestyle for your family
• Travelling (local, domestic, internationally, camping, etc.) with a young child
• How to talk to your spouse about values, MoMBA topics, vision, etc.
• Getting your promotion to senior engineer

Megan Sutton, P.Eng.

Megan is a mother of two and a Professional Engineer with a B.Sc. in Materials Engineering and an M.Eng. in Engineering Management. She has over 15 years of experience in consulting engineering.

Her technical experience includes failure analysis and failure investigations, materials testing and examination, instructing technical seminars related to Codes and standards, quality and integrity management, compliance and regulatory consulting and auditing.

Megan is passionate about inspiring more women and mothers to choose and then thrive in STEM careers. Megan is also married to another Materials Engineer. With the kids, they enjoy having fun together, spending time at the lake, and swimming.

Megan's top personal value is inner harmony because she believes that we must take care of ourselves first in order to take care of everyone around us while also pursuing our goals. A few fun facts: Megan loves to read and usually has several books in progress at any given time (physical, e-book and audio). She is also a dancer, and spent many years teaching various styles of dance to ages 3 to adult. Megan loves to travel and is a Disney fan (her favourite character is Maleficent, and her favourite ride is the Haunted Mansion). She has a magic wand at her desks both at work and home because she believes a little magic can help her with ideas and finding solutions - plus the wands make great fidget toys! 

Megan can help you with:

• Prioritizing yourself while also managing your many roles at home and work
• Reframing your mindset to make more aligned choices for yourself and your family, and to remove the things that no longer serve you
• Accountability in developing supportive and consistent habits and routines for you and your family
• Implementing systems that can free up more time at work and at home for the things that are most important to you 
• Being a leader at work, even if your job title may not not include “supervisor” or “manager” in it 

Amanda Robertson, P.Eng.

Amanda Robertson is a professional engineer, and University of Alberta alumni in Electrical Engineering with distinction. In her 12 years of experience at ATCO Electric, Amanda has had the opportunity to lead diverse teams to tackle challenging interconnection and substation projects that accelerate the growth of solar and renewables to the power grid including the largest urban solar farms within the City of Calgary. She also has experience as a solar and renewables designer, worked on the converter stations for the Eastern Alberta Transmission Line 500 kV HVDC project and has experience in distribution and transmission power system planning. 

Amanda can help you with:

• Getting your next promotion
• Advanced health topics (like managing chronic illness and advocating for your health)
• Finding your purpose in your engineering career

Sarah Hrynew, P.Eng.

Sarah is a mechanical engineer who graduated from university of Alberta in 2013. She has worked for a large energy company for 10+ years in various maintenance and reliability roles, and she is a mom of two young kids. She enjoys spending time in the river valley walking her dog, biking or cross country skiing, she is also an avid reader and loves learning new things through reading. Her core values are Family, Health, Friendship, Kindness and Accountability. Her core desired feelings are Connection, Curiosity, Joy and Peace.

Sarah can help you with:

• Reducing overwhelm as a family with two demanding careers
• Defining what being a ’good mom’ is on your own terms not absorbing societies expectations 
• Taking control of your time so there is always time for what is important 
• Increasing confidence while being the only woman in the room  

Alisha Guenther, P.Eng.

_{(limited availability until Nov. 2025 due to managing outages)}

Alisha can help you with:

• Finding acceptance, peace and joy through parenting challenges.

• Overcoming burnout through rest and focusing on what's important.

• Understanding, accepting and embracing your neurodiversity as part of your personal brand.