Alternate Business Models

This session focuses on exploring colonization and the bias it has created in the field of entrepreneurship.

The facilitators will explore diverse and non-mainstream approaches to entrepreneurship, including Black, Indigenous ones. Through this session, you will be able to gain varying perspectives on entrepreneurship.

This workshop is most beneficial to social entrepreneurs and changemakers.

Anyone who wants to decolonize entrepreneurship and gain diverse perspectives on entrepreneurship is welcome.

Through this session you will:

PepperBrooks is a creative marketing strategist and award-winning blogger - who blends empathy with business, art, and technology. PepperBrooks Media works together with kind and compassionate entrepreneurs to elevate inclusive marketing and build an emotional connection with their audience. Her vision is to reduce inequality and promote inclusion of all. As a social entrepreneur she believes that entrepreneurship is a tool for economic growth and social change.

With a 20-year career designing and coordinating projects and research related to social innovation across sectors, Marisol has developed successful strategies facilitating ways in which different disciplines and cultures can work together on initiatives oriented to community wellbeing and focused on economic growth. Her efforts have allowed her to design revenue generation strategies and social impact achievements for many kinds of organizations to explore and implement sustainability practices. Whether she is leading projects, monitoring performance, assessing impact, or providing tailored support to organizations and social entrepreneurs, she is grounded in Indigenous approaches and is focused on fostering cross-sector collaboration and intercultural dialogue oriented to promote innovating ideas and co-create solutions that truly address local communities’ needs.

Besma Soltan has 15 years of experience in the social and educational sectors, working with grassroots organizations, non-profits, startups, incubators, and higher education institutes. She co-founded a non-profit and a startup company focused on helping raise community awareness about local and global issues, with her work featured in several local TV shows, newspapers, and radio shows. Besma's areas of expertise intersect curriculum design, interdisciplinary innovation, and entrepreneurial education with award-winning programs that have engaged hundreds of students, changemakers and social entrepreneurs. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Enterprise Management, a Graduate Certificate in Marketing Management, a Master's in Education and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Interdisciplinary Social Research, focusing on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She recently joined Humber College as Project Manager at the Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship.

This series includes workshops designed to help you learn how to move from entrepreneurial ideas to execution.

The series includes:

1. Digital Marketing For Startups | Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 at 6pm
2. Building Your First Prototype | Thursday, March 16th, 2023 at 6pm
3. Legal Bootcamp For Startups with Ownr | Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 at 6pm
4. Essential Practices For Successful Entrepreneurs | Tuesday, March 28th, 2023 at 6pm
5. Leverage Government Grants For Your Startup | Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 at 6pm
6. Planning For Growth: Accelerating Growth Through Strategic Knowledge | Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 at 6pm

EDGE is where entrepreneurship and innovation thrive. We help impact entrepreneurs create meaningful change for our communities, society, and environment. We support changemakers as they explore entrepreneurial approaches to creating a more equitable and sustainable world.

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