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In case you missed it, Aki Kaltenbach won the 2024 BC Business Women of the Year: Entrepreneurial Leader! Aki founded Save Da Sea, a plant-based seafood company while running her family’s Japanese restaurants. Save Da Sea now boasts 3 products: plant-based smoked salmon, smoked salmon with dill & capers, and tuna salad. Save Da Sea is available in more than 100 stores across North America as far north as Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada and as far south as Ashland, Oregon, United States of America. Learn more about how Save Da Sea is helping reduce our environmental impact: https://www.savedasea.com/ #FoodInnovation #ClimateAction #Innovation

Having the pleasure of knowing Jim Bush and Jessica Browning as well as the good folks at Winkler Group, I know this session will be full of relevant and meaningful insights as we start out on our 2024 journey. I would encourage you to attend if you can, you are sure to pick up some helpful resources. #fundraising #fundraisingsuccess #nonprofit #nonprofitleadership #nonprofitleaders

Wrapped 💫 We closed the four-week Create Growth: Female Founders Coaching Programme yesterday for GM Business Growth Hub. Our brief? Help these amazing business women build more confidence and resilience. What a four weeks it’s been: 💫 An in-person workshop to start to uncover the concrete walls present in our businesses and personal lives 💫 An online deep dive into self limiting beliefs, followed by observed coaching sessions 💫 Online again, this time looking at evidence stacking for confidence and more observed coaching 💫 Wrapped with a final in-person workshop and a vision boarding session to let the community strengthen their bonds (which are as strong as they are!) and some incredible reflections. We’ll share some of the incredible feedback soon. But for now, thank you GM Business Growth Hub for trusting us with your first female founders programme. We can’t wait to see where they go next 🙏

What an incredible night of powerhouse women for our PEWIN - Private Equity Women Investor Network Houston chapter dinner. Haley Vyrostek and Eriell Delgado were incredible partners for the event, planning and helping with every detail. We even got to celebrate Tamika Tyson's birthday! We brought together some of the most senior women LPs and GPs for an intimate discussion where we covered everything from: - What makes someone a good investor? (Intellectual curiosity, listening/asking questions and not letting the outcomes of decision color if the decision was good or bad) -Using founder personality assessment tools. (Potentially a roadblock if used improperly and only in screening but could be powerful to know about team blind spots) - What everyone was excited about in 2024? (More deals happening, deeper relationships, general macro uncertainly going one way or another) Thank you Stephanie Campbell, Sandy Guitar, Samantha Lewis, Brett Ashley Barth, Mallory Gibson Baker, Faridah Usman, CFA, CAIA, Rushana Cypert, Jennifer (Jenny) Gottschalk, Kathleen M. Burke, Veronica Wu for making it such a vibrant discussion!

Just over 2 weeks to go until our Geelong Accelerator for Enterprising Women Incubator workshop with Shivali Harman from the Young Change Agents team & Junie Baptiste Poitevien, Founder and CEO of Propel Innovations! If you're a female founder in Geelong with a business or entrepreneurial idea you’ve always wanted to bring to life then sign up to attend this event! We'll take you through a series of masterclasses and provide virtual mentoring support following the event with female founders involved in this initiative from across the country. When you leave, you will be able to: 💡 Develop your business model 💡 Create a validation strategy 💡 Determine your MVP (minimum viable product) 💡 Have a marketing plan ready to go! We will also give you the tricks and tips you need to enter the Kickstarter Challenge which has game-changing prizes like: - A share in $60,000 worth of seed funding - The chance to pitch your business to the decision-makers in Canberra, Shark Tank-style - Be connected with a mentor in your field to help you continue your business journey View the event details and sign up to attend here: https://hubs.ly/Q01-0qqH0

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I'm honored to get this recommendation from Leslie Feinzaig, someone that I greatly respect and admire. Working with female Founders from all over the world gives me continual inspiration and energy! #femalefounders #womeninstem #womeninAI #businessdevelopment #businesscoaching

[DEI & Leadership] Women on boards are not a "nice to have" anymore This morning, I was delighted to attend a meeting where the inspiring Hedwige Nuyens, chair of European Women on Boards (EWOB) was interviewed. No matter how many times I’ve heard Hedwige speaking, I always learn new things and ways to convey the importance of diversity and inclusion on boards. Three messages stood out 1.- Some people are uncomfortable with quotas, targets, and mandates on boards around protected categories such as gender. However, can we imagine if the EU Commission was headed only by French people? Or Spanish people? Or Polish people? How could that represent the 450 million EU residents? 2.- Boards used to be “a group of friends”. Now boards have been professionalised and as such they must be intentional at implementing diversity and enabling inclusion so the decision-making is enriched by different points of view. 3.- Often women with a wealth of expertise to contribute to boards rule themselves out when offered a board position. If you’re still doubting the value women bring to your boards, here’s some evidence for you “According to Fortune Magazine, female-led companies perform three times better than the S&P 500. And a recent analysis of nearly 11,000 companies globally over the past eight years conducted by the largest bank in Scandinavia found that companies with a woman in the CEO or chairperson role more than doubled the performance of the MSCI World Index. As for board representation, the Women’s Leadership Foundation reports that Fortune 500 companies with sustained representation of three or more women on their boards have significantly greater financial performance than those with no women.” And if you’re a woman hesitating to apply for a board position, below are some pointers -       Be bold -       Know your value and own it -       Embrace ambiguity -       Seek mentors from all genders -       Know and lean into your strengths Even better, you can join the Board Readiness Program from European Women on Boards https://lnkd.in/eMbdke6c Need even more convincing? Read my article about my journey towards my first board role. https://lnkd.in/eT5UZYgy #DiverseBoards #GenderEquity #GenderEquality #WomenInLeadership #WomenInTech #WomenInBusiness