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Status of Women committee I hope she has some economic data to share. I'm not an economist, so I don't have that. I think we have such an opportunity with what's happening right now with the pandemic to look at what we value in society, to look at the impact of not valuing certain things and to look at h
July 7th, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Status of Women committee Thank you for the question. We have a very interesting mix of young mothers and others on our team. In all of our ventures, we ask these questions all the time. There is no one answer for women. We are so diverse and different in our experiences and what we need. Again, I think
July 7th, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Status of Women committee If you mean climbing the ranks within corporate structures, that's not an area I focus on. We're interested in funding women innovators and women entrepreneurs and helping them thrive. The way we do that with SheEO is that we fund them and support them on their own terms instead
July 7th, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Status of Women committee Yes. The thing that is unique about the approach we're taking is that it's all relationship based. This is part of it. We are living in a world that is so transactional. It's like, “Here's my money, so give me a return for my money”. It's all about accumulating that wealth and ho
July 7th, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Status of Women committee There will be no recovery unless we figure out child care. We're not going to have an economic recovery. Women will not be able to get back to work. We're going to see a disproportionate impact on women if we don't figure out how to pay for this or solve it. We've seen women bein
July 7th, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Status of Women committee Thank you very much. I'm Vicki Saunders, founder of SheEO. Good afternoon. Bonjour. I started SheEO. I'm just going to give a quick overview of SheEO, how we're dealing with what's happening with COVID and the opportunity going forward afterward. For those of you who may not
July 7th, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Finance committee Absolutely. I think part of it is access to markets and relationships with customers. We've been working very closely with the Indigenous LIFT Collective and Teara Fraser. She's one of the activators in our network. We started doing calls a couple of months before the pandemic:
June 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Finance committee I think there is a mix. Again, as with everything else, there isn't just one thing that's happening, such as all landlords doing x or all landlords doing y. I think, for various different reasons, in general a lot of landlords are just not applying for it or using it. They alrea
June 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Finance committee Again, if this could have gone directly to individuals, I think it would have been easier, instead of having to go through the landlord piece.
June 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Finance committee I think the big challenge with this is that we have a very narrow definition of what innovation is. It focuses very much on tech and on “go big”. There are tons of other kinds of innovation out there. There are all kinds of social innovations that aren't captured within this elem
June 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Finance committee Yes, and it's SheEO.
June 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Finance committee That's fine: CEO, SheEO. Yes, this has been a real challenge. I understand that it's really hard to be sitting there and go, “Okay, what should the rules be?”, and try to make this up to work for everybody. I appreciate the challenge around this, but a lot of our ventures were n
June 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders
Finance committee Thank you very much for the invitation to be here. Wow, that was very powerful. Thank you very much, Ms. Walker. I'm a serial entrepreneur. I've been an entrepreneur my whole life. I'm absolutely unemployable by anyone. It's a wonder that I'm actually on a call with government
June 2nd, 2020Committee meeting
Vicki Saunders