altMBA

Western Academy of Photography

Founder & CEO at Inqli. Technology for People. Relentless Architect of Possibility.

Category Thinkers is the free community that brings category designers together. Whether you’re already an expert or just “category curious,” you’re welcome to join the hundreds of others who strive to be radically different.

Category Thinkers

Ambassador

I am one of 30 exclusive Leader Allies of the d’Skills Movement. We support, build alongside, and hire Gen Z’rs who are GPT powered humans, and are committed to staying relevant in an AI-driven world.

d'Skills

Gen Z Innovator

inqli is an inclusive knowledge-sharing platform that attracts, engages and retains the employees of purpose-driven enterprises by fostering purpose and fulfillment at work. By simply asking and replying to questions, employees build meaningful connections through knowledge-sharing, inside and outside their organization. Employees improve productivity by impacting each other’s learning & growth AND make a broader social impact with their education and community partners, engaging and attracting future talent while delivering on DEI and ESG initiatives.

inqli

Founder, CEO and Vibes Keeper

Raise a Dream Co-Founders Rebecca & Charmaine have over 40 years of combined experience in building collaborative relationships and partnerships in business to accelerate the growth of their own businesses and nonprofits (over 10 of them between them!) and the businesses and projects of 100’s of others through their coaching, training and mentorship programs. They have come together through their shared belief in lifting others as they climb. They’ve co-founded Raise a Dream to share their knowledge and expertise in Collaboration, Partnership and Sponsorship and to combine their teams to form and even more comprehensive and collaborative group of professionals (the “Raise a Dream Team”) to help you Raise your Dream. We look forward to your success! Learn more here: www.raiseadream.com

Raise a Dream

Co Founder

To help prepare our youth for the coming era of innovation we need to think differently about education and teaching. Instead of testing and measuring knowledge, we need to develop the skills and character traits that matter more tomorrow. That’s the goal of Rethink Thinking: The Summit (formerly Summit at the Pier)  – to be an incubator for ideas and thinking. To create resilience and bravery in youth that allows them to continuously rethink thinking.

At our first event in October 2016 five hundred youth from all over Vancouver Island gathered together at Victoria’s beautiful Ogden Point Pier for two days for future-building, incubator-style sessions to draw out new ideas, encourage peer collaboration, and foster personal growth. The inaugural event featured the world famous Sir Ken Robinson, New York Times best selling author of "The Element", TED speaker, education and creativity expert.

Rethink Thinking: The Summit

Founder

The Landing Pad is a one-of-a-kind solution to a common business problem: the challenge of finding suitable, affordable, well-equipped, centrally located space to rent for occasional and regular gatherings. Beautifully designed and fully equipped, The Landing Pad is a downtown Victoria space ideal for meetings, workshops, classes, events, demonstrations, launches, retreats, or pop-up shops. Learn more at: http://landingpadyyj.com

Landing Pad YYJ

Impact That is a media tool that engages readers to act. By working with news media, the team at Impact That can create a customized, interactive application that allows news media to remain impartial, yet still take a leadership role by giving online readers a choice of actions in response to the stories they are reading. Examples of reader actions include supporting charities, participating in surveys, and ethical consumerism. Learn more at: www.impactthat.org

Impact That

The Freebird Collective is a strategic alliance of freelance branding and marketing experts. As a collective, we believe that branding – how your business looks, feels, and sounds – is the secret to capturing (and keeping) the attention of your target audience.

We are all passionate about helping small businesses create compelling brands that takes into account every aspect of your individual brand story. From your marketing strategy, to logo and web design & development, to photographic imagery, to web content, communications and social media, to building strong referral networks – the Freebirds are dedicated to helping your business hatch a plan and grow your business.

The Freebirds also understand that branding and marketing can seem out of reach when you have a limited budget. We are excited to share our knowledge so that those businesses that are not quite ready to invest have access to the right information to do it yourself. We believe every business should have access to the best branding tools and information available so that your business can take flight.

Freebird Collective

Metier is a real estate investment company dedicated to providing joint venture opportunitites for investors and affordable housing to our clients.

Metier Investment Corp.

We have been called photo mavens, family historians, artistic visionaries, and branding gurus. Our work has appeared in countless magazines, books and television shows, but it’s when it graces your wall or your advertising that we beam the brightest.

We could tell you that we’ve been in business for over 13 years. We could tell you that between the two of us, we’ve got more than 25 years of experience photographing people. We could go on about the awards, accolades and achievements we’ve got under our belts. But that would be boring. Andnpredictable. And we are anything but that.

What matters to us is that we love what we do. We have taken all of our passions and thrown them into this glorious kaleidoscope that we call our art, our purpose. We live for relationships, art, soulful connection and finding real meaning in everything we do. We have taken our love for photographing people and working with conscious businesses that exist to make a difference, and we’ve made it our life’s work. There is nothing we love more than working with soul-powered entrepreneurs to help them create their brand, their story. Like us, you love what you do. You want your brand to reflect that too. If you want to show the world who you are and what you do in a way that is eye-catching, truthful and new, find out how to work with us. We’ll figure out what makes you tick. And we’ll help you show the world. Learn more at: http://b-kstudios.com

Rebecca Kirstein Resch (she/her)