Work is changing: 50% of people in BC now have to find their own way in the gig economy.
Traditional education is not providing the answers. Groundswell is an alternative business school with a focus on supporting social impact businesses. Taking the Build Program* at Groundswell is not only about developing the hard skills needed to run a business. Social entrepreneurs also need emotional resilience and community, and that is where our team of mentors comes in.
Register for Meet the Mentors | Groundswell Potluck Social
Join them Oct 24 to Meet the Mentors, each of whom is a successful entrepreneur. (Also they are funny and insightful and kind people too, just saying.) Featuring:
Co-Founder of Groundswell with over 25 years experience establishing, developing and running various progressive businesses and organizations, Gilad has founded numerous alternative schools, social enterprises and NGOs.
Another Groundswell Co-Founder, Jim is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience and an international portfolio and that includes employment training and recruitment, travel management, bars, restaurants and computer software/financial services.
Madeleine, the co-founder of Lunapads and founder of Nestworks, brings over 25 years of experience as a social entrepreneur interested in product development, progressive business practices and reimagining work-life balance.
Lenard Reid,
Co-founder of North Vancouver business Jackets for Jasper, whose profits go towards funding girls to attend school for a month in Nepal. Last year, the company funded the lifetime education of 7 girls!
Moderated by Build Instructor Emily Chow!
Stay afterwards for a potluck social and meet the community!