Agenda
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2nd:
(10 am – 7:00 pm Please note: The EFF will host a Community Fair on both days during the morning movement session hours, over lunch, and on breaks.)
9:30 AM: Registration & Community Fair Opens
10:00 AM-11:00 AM: Movement Workshop
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Welcome & Foundational Talk #1
12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Lunch, networking, community fair and writing workshop
These 3-hour workshops are designed to kickstart your projects. Move one of your mountains!
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Reception, Radical Generosity Practice, Entertainment
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3rd:
(8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Please note: The EFF will host a Community Fair on both days during the morning movement session hours, over lunch, and on breaks.)
7:45 AM: Registration & Community Fair Opens
8:00 AM-9:00 AM: Working with the Life Force of Ferocity Workshop with Jane Clapp
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM: Welcome, Foundational Talk #2
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM: Break / Networking
10:45 AM – 12:15 pm: Workshop Series A
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch / Networking
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM: Lightning Talks
3 Rooms, 3 Themes, 3-5 speakers (6 min each) Plus 15 min Q & A.
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Workshop Series B
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM: Foundational Talk #3.
Dr. Dori Tunstall: Diversity and Inclusion is not enough: decolonized feminism and design
4:45 PM – 5:30 PM: Closing Talk, Ritual, Share Harvest Highlights
About the Community Fair: Co-curated by the EFF production team and volunteers from the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce, the fair will feature a collective merch table and 10-15 community groups, associations, media enterprises, or projects focused on elevating or supporting the entrepreneurial feminist community.
Note: To keep costs down, we will offer healthy snacks throughout the day. Bring your own lunch or purchase food from the many nearby restaurants or the cafe on site.
(10 am – 7:00 pm Please note: The EFF will host a Community Fair on both days during the morning movement session hours, over lunch, and on breaks.)
9:30 AM: Registration & Community Fair Opens
10:00 AM-11:00 AM: Movement Workshop
- Boxing 101: The Art of Not Quitting with Savoy "Kapow!" Howe. Start the day by feeling the strength of your own body. Savoy will lead EFF participants who wish to join in easy boxing techniques to energize us for the work ahead. Most learning situations lead with the head. We lead with the whole body. Try to be open, curious, and nimble. Nourish your body before moving into intellectual learning spaces!
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Welcome & Foundational Talk #1
- Welcome by Petra Kassun-Mutch, & Lex Schroeder
- Foundational talk #1. Carol Ann Hilton: Indigenomics By Design: The Rise of Indigenous Economic Empowerment.
12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Lunch, networking, community fair and writing workshop
- Take some time to yourself, think, set intentions, prepare, or just empty your mind to be ready to receive.
- Writing Workshop: Grab your lunch and join this 40-minute session! Take the time to write and enjoy being challenged by feminist writing prompts. Participants will have the option to share—or not!
- Leadership Coaching with Jenna Smith.
These 3-hour workshops are designed to kickstart your projects. Move one of your mountains!
- Feminist Businesses Require Feminist Business Models: Design yours with the FBMC | Dr. CV Harquail & Petra Kassun-Mutch
- Feminist Marketing for an Emerging, More Inclusive Economy | Kelly Diels
- What Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Can Learn from Activists | Rivera Sun
- Generative Decision Making - Sharing Power in Our Organizations | Samantha Slade
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Reception, Radical Generosity Practice, Entertainment
- Light nourishment (including free non-alcoholic drinks). Wine and beer.
- Radical Generosity Practice facilitated by Vicki Saunders, Founder of SheEO.
- Harvest Wall - Share what you are learning and are curious about!
- Ask & Offer Posters & Poster Walk Make your new venture, project, or idea visible. Learn about other ventures at your leisure.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3rd:
(8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Please note: The EFF will host a Community Fair on both days during the morning movement session hours, over lunch, and on breaks.)
7:45 AM: Registration & Community Fair Opens
8:00 AM-9:00 AM: Working with the Life Force of Ferocity Workshop with Jane Clapp
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM: Welcome, Foundational Talk #2
- Welcome, Petra Kassun-Mutch & Lex Schroeder
- Foundational talk #2 by Dr. CV Harquail: What Makes a Business Feminist?
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM: Break / Networking
10:45 AM – 12:15 pm: Workshop Series A
- Designing & Unleashing the Power of Enterprise Ecosystems | Dr. Barbara Orser & Petra Kassun-Mutch
- Make Better Decisions in Your Business Using a Personal Governance Framework | Theresa Yuan
- Put Your Feminist Values into Policy and Practice in Your Business | Chris Mitchell and Christina Zeidler, Gladstone Hotel
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch / Networking
- Writing Workshop: Grab your lunch and join this 40-minute session! Take the time to write and enjoy being challenged by feminist writing prompts. Participants will have the option to share—or not!
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM: Lightning Talks
3 Rooms, 3 Themes, 3-5 speakers (6 min each) Plus 15 min Q & A.
- Theme 1: Starting and Running a Business on Your Own Terms
- Vicki Saunders, Founder, SheEO (Moderator)
- Pauleanna Reid, Co-founder, New Girl on the Block
- Cher Jones, Founder, Socially Active
- BE (barbara) Alink, CEO, Founder and Inventor, The Alinker
- Bianca Sprague, CEO, bebo mia & Baby and Me Fitness
- Theme 2: A Feminist Look at the Fast-Growing Cannabis Industry
- Lisa Campbell, Founder, Lifford Cannabis Solutions (Moderator)
- Reena Rampersad, Owner/operator, The Limin Coconut & High Society Supper Club
- Sabrina Ramkellawan, Founder & CEO, Canadian Institute for Medical Advancement & VP of Clinical Affairs, TerrAscend
- Michelle Cliffe, Founder & CEO, Stashie and Founder, Love Collective
- Alyson Morris, HR Manager at Auxly Cannabis Group Inc.
- Theme 3: Why We Gather: How to Create Community Through Feminist Content, Practices and Values
- Chanèle McFarlane, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Do Well Dress Well (Moderator)
- Amanda Laird, Feminist nutritionist and host of Heavy Flow Podcast
- Rachel Kelly, Founder, Make Lemonade
- Karlyn Percil-Mercieca, CEO, KDPM Consulting Group Inc. and Founder, SisterTalk Group
- Nancy Wilson, CEO, Canadian Women's Chamber of Commerce
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Workshop Series B
- This is What a Feminist Business Looks Like: Insights and Actions from the Front Lines | Suzanne Siemens and Madeleine Shaw, Lunapads
- Whiteness without White Supremacy: generating new models of whiteness | Dr. Dori Tunstall
- Negotiating as a Feminist | Olga Semenovych
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM: Foundational Talk #3.
Dr. Dori Tunstall: Diversity and Inclusion is not enough: decolonized feminism and design
4:45 PM – 5:30 PM: Closing Talk, Ritual, Share Harvest Highlights
About the Community Fair: Co-curated by the EFF production team and volunteers from the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce, the fair will feature a collective merch table and 10-15 community groups, associations, media enterprises, or projects focused on elevating or supporting the entrepreneurial feminist community.
Note: To keep costs down, we will offer healthy snacks throughout the day. Bring your own lunch or purchase food from the many nearby restaurants or the cafe on site.
2018 SPEAKERS:
- BE (barbara) Alink, CEO, Founder and Inventor The Alinker.
- Lisa Campbell, Founder Lifford Cannabis Solutions.
- Jane Clapp, Re-embodiment Coach & Trauma Recovery Specialist
- Michelle Cliffe, Founder & CEO of Stashie and Founder of Love Collective
- Kelly Diels, Feminist marketing consultant, writer and marketing coach
- Madi Fuller, Manager of Niagara College's entrepreneurship and innovation centre, ncTakeOff
- C. V. Harquail, PhD, Feminists at Work & faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology.
- Carol Anne Hilton, CEO and Founder of The Indigenomics Institute, a recognized First Nations business leader, of Nuu chah nulth descent from the Hesquiaht Nation of Vancouver Island.
- Cher Jones, Corporate Social Media Trainer, Personal Branding coach and Founder Socially Active.
- Rachel Kelly, connecting women-identified entrepreneurs and Founder of Make Lemonade.
- Amanda Laird, Feminist nutritionist and host of the Heavy Flow Podcast.
- Chanèle McFarlane, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Do Well Dress Well and a 2018 Top 25 Woman of Influence.
- Chris Mitchell, Creative Partnerships and Special Projects Manager, Gladstone Hotel.
- Alyson Morris (CHRL), HR Manager at Auxly Cannabis Group Inc.
- PK Mutch, Founder, Publisher of LiisBeth Media
- Dr. Barbara Orser, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa and co-author of Feminine Capital. Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs.
- Karlyn Percil-Mercieca, CEO of KDPM Consulting Group and Founder of SisterTalk Group.
- Sabrina Ramkellawan, Founder & CEO, Canadian Institute for Medical Advancement & VP of Clinical Affairs, TerrAscend.
- Reena Rampersad, cultural foodie, cannabis connoisseur, owner/operator of The Limin Coconut and High Society Supper Club.
- Pauleanna Reid, Co-Founder New Girl On The Block.
- Vicki Saunders, Founder, SheEO.
- Olga Semenovych, Design Strategist at Groundswell Projects.
- Madeleine Shaw, Co-Founder, Lunapads.
- Suzanne Siemens, Co-Founder, Lunapads.
- Samantha Slade, Author, Going Horizontal - Creating a Non-hierarchical Organization, One Practice at a Time, & Co-Founder, Percolab & ECTO.
- Bianca Sprague, CEO of bebo mia and Baby and Me Fitness.
- Rivera Sun, change-maker, cultural creative, author of The Dandelion Insurrection and other novels, and advocate for nonviolence and social justice.
- Dr. Dori Tunstall, Dean of Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design University.
- Nancy Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Women's Chamber of Commerce.
- Theresa Yuan, intersectional feminist and host en(gender)ed podcast.
- Christina Zeidler, Chief Alchemist, Gladstone Hotel.
