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Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC

The University of British Columbia

Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design

ESADE Business School

CEO at The Forum #leavenowomanbehind  -  Globe & Mail Changemaker 2022

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I oversee the leadership and strategy for The Forum (previously FWE), a Canadian charity that educates, mentors, connects and directs women entrepreneurs to be wildly successful, promoting strengthened economies and thriving communities.

-  Lead the growth of the organization from 440 to 1,500+ entrepreneurs a year across Canada within three years through expanded programming, new marketing and communications tactics, national and regional partnerships, and expanded funding to better support a diversity of women entrepreneurs
-  Manage the P&L which grew from $1.2M to $2M within three years through new corporate partnerships and growth of private donor funding
-  Grew Team from 5FTE in BC to 15FTE across Canada
-  Supported over 5,500 women entrepreneurs during the first 14 months of COVID, while launching four new programs, transitioning all activities to virtual delivery, and retaining all staff
-  Successfully launched a brand refresh in February 2020 while hosting the first-ever virtual Gala for the organization with over 2,000 live viewers (compared to previous year of 800 in-person)
-  Increased program impact and long-term sustainable business success through revenue growth and job creation by achieving 96%+ NPS across all programs during 2020 and 2021
-  Established national and key regional partnerships to increase reach
-  Provide ongoing mentorship + advisory to women entrepreneurs on launching and scaling their businesses

The Forum

Dive into the minds of some of Canada’s successful entrepreneurs with The Go-To: For Entrepreneurs in the Know, produced in collaboration with The Scotiabank Women Initiative™. Covering topics that are fundamental to growing a company, from fundraising to branding, social impact and much more. Its short and impactful conversations will leave you with tangible resources and entrepreneurial secrets to help you elevate your business.

Host

The Immigrant Employment Council of British Columbia connects employers with immigrant talent. We help employers create diverse and inclusive workplaces.

As Chair of the Board I work closely with the CEO to achieve our strategic and governance objectives.

Immigrant Employment Council of BC

Chair Of The Board Of Directors

YWCA Metro Vancouver

Member of the Board of Directors

Canada 150 Women is an interview-based hardcover book, featuring leaders, champions, and luminaries from across Canada including Karina LeBlanc, Kim Campbell, Maili Wong, Hayley Wickenheiser, Vicki Saunders, Angela Sterritt and more. This book was born from a desire to celebrate and uplift diverse and visionary women leaders and to meaningfully contribute to the gender equity conversation in Canada.

-  Created and published a Canadian bestseller from concept to launch in less than eight months
-  Sold out all available copies (5,000+) in the first month of print
-  From Kristin Cochrane, President of Penguin Randomhouse: “Exceptional and unprecedented. I’ve been in book publishing my whole career and would have never imagined this possible.”
-  National PR plan resulted in coverage including Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, CBC, Global and CTV News

Resulted in keynote speaking opportunities and published work on gender diversity and women’s empowerment including: Accenture Canada International Women’s Day, Vancouver; League of Innovators, Calgary; BCTECH Summit, Vancouver; KPMG Canada International Women’s Day, Toronto; Deloitte Impact over Metrics, Vancouver; UBC International Development Conference, Vancouver; Penguin Random House annual conference, Toronto; Re/Form Creative Entrepreneur Conference, Squamish .

Canada 150 Women

Author

teaching Bus 238 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship + Innovation

Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University

Visiting Professor

Appointed as one of 7 individuals from across Canada to work on crafting the recommendations for our federal government’s youth employment strategy. The Panel works with The Honourable MaryAnn Mihychuk and The Right Honourable Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, Minister of Youth.

First announced in Budget 2016, the Expert Panel on Youth Employment will assess the barriers faced by young people in Canada, including vulnerable youth, in finding and keeping jobs. The Panel will look at innovative practices used by other governments, non‑governmental organizations and employers, at home and abroad, to improve job opportunities for youth. Each year, the Government of Canada invests more than $300 million in Canada’s young people through the Youth Employment Strategy (YES). As announced in Budget 2016, total funding for YES is increasing by some $278 million in 2016–17, representing the largest investment in YES since its launch in 1997.

Federal Government, Ministry of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour

Panelist, Expert Panel on Youth Employment

I lead Futurpreneur's BC, Alberta & Yukon teams in delivering exceptional support to young startup entrepreneurs. Worked directly with our senior leadership team to create + implement our national and regional strategies, program delivery, and lead our collaborative partnerships.

Futurpreneur Canada is a national non-profit organization that helps entrepreneurs successfully start their business by providing financing, mentorship, and resources to entrepreneurs aged 18-39.

Key accomplishments:
-  Promoted to Regional Director and expanded scope from BC + Yukon to Western Canada in under two years
-  Supported the lending program of approx. $8.8M annually to new small business entrepreneurs across the Western Canadian hub resulting in growth of 110% annually over five years
-  Exceeded annual target for entrepreneurs funded to 112% community partnerships and business development
-  Secured over $680k in new provincial and corporate funding
-  Expanded the geographical reach of the ThriveNorth program to include all of Northern BC, supporting rural (under 25k population) and Indigenous youth and growing the program by +150%
-  Managed a distributed team of 14 (growth from six in 2015) with 100% retention
-  Managed 45+ strategic partnerships with provincial government, corporate, and community partners

Futurpreneur Canada

Regional Director, BC, Alberta and Yukon

Futurpreneur Canada is a national non-profit organization that helps entrepreneurs successfully start their business. We provide financing, mentorship, and resources to entrepreneurs aged 18-39.

In May 2013 I joined the Futurpreneur team in the new role of Business Development Manager.

Business Development Manager

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we create space to ask hard questions, gain clarity, re-define success, and set life strategies. we support you to courageously live life according to your values & definitions - to your full potential.

.the(in)studios

founder

Developed and executed a fully integrated communications strategy to strengthen FWE's online presence and engagement, resulting in significant engagement increases over a 7 month period.

-  created a strategy that included an email subscription newsletter, new blog and social media content, including storytelling and community building, built on the brand’s values

-  developed and curated content for new website, focused on engaging storytelling, which increased on average monthly unique readership by 35% and average time views on website by 1.5 mins, in 7 months

-  executed social media strategy resulting in follower and engagement increases of 25% for Facebook, 20% for Twitter, and 450% for Pinterest in 7 months

Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) BC

Community Manager

Developed web and social media strategy and executed content creation and increased web and social media traffic by 20% in 3 months.

WATSON inc.

Communications Consultant

Self-initiated a new, and first, social enterprise seminar course for UBC Sauder School of Business, featured on McLeans.ca for its design and innovation.

-  developed curriculum and course structure and involved the faculty and Vancouver social enterprise community as guest lectures and project partners
-  achieved full enrollment within 24 hours of seminar announcement with over 250 student applicants for 12 available spots
-  awarded a 95% satisfaction rating from students for facilitation and curriculum structure

Sauder School of Business at UBC

Leadership in Social Entreprise- seminar facilitator

Performed audits and reviews for public and private companies ranging in size from multi-national corporations to local organizations, applying range of Canadian and US GAAP, IFRS implementation, and ASPE standards.

-  gained experience in various industries, primarily mining, forestry, manufacturing, real estate and not-for-profits.
-  learned and exercised time management skills, exemplified by fast-tracking the completion of my Chartered Accountant designation in my first 12 months at KPMG, while working full-time as a First Year employee
-  discussed audit and business operations with senior management and clients
-  identified areas and techniques for improvement of existing audit strategies
-  completed numerous Professional Development courses for project and time management, leadership, strategy development, and business development

KPMG in Canada

Staff Accountant + Management Consulting

Designed delivered weekly lectures to senior students on advanced managerial accounting and held weekly office hours to assist students with projects and learning.

Teaching Assistant, Advanced Managerial Accounting

I co-created and led a brand for one of the most aspirational demographics: professional young women. Since its launch, YWiB remains the only personal and professional leadership development organization, ran by, and serving, young women, and is Vancouver’s go-to community for young female leaders. The brand’s tagline, “build your story”, re-defines traditional expectations of networking and leadership development.

-  Created governance processes for the Board of Directors and Board of Advisors, consisting of 6 prominent C-Suite level leaders in Vancouver
-  Developed and project managed Corporate Sponsorship strategy and relationships, resulting in annual funding of $80,000+
-  Expanded leadership within the organization to grow the team from 4 founding team members to 45 team members, including designing and executing the hiring, onboarding and training of all team members, and an annual leadership retreat for 45+ team members
-  Managed annual volunteer turnover, increasing retention by over 50% and minimizing information loss
-  Grew the membership base from 25 members to over 2,200 nationally
-  Grew the organization from a single conference, to four chapter franchises across BC with ongoing programming throughout the year
-  Collaborated with over 30 organizations in British Columbia to form The WEB Alliance of Women’s Business Groups, advising the BC Government on issues critical to women’s economic development
-  Developed ongoing programming for events and continued growing the annual conference, Beyond Pink, achieving 99% satisfaction rate from attendees each year
-  Grew the calibre and quality of events to attract world-renown and rewarded speakers and mentors, including individuals rewarded as Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, Women of Distinction, Canada’s Top 50 Best Workplace CEOs, and Vancouver’s Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs.

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