Media Advisory: Women Entrepreneurs Get Ready for GroYourBiz in Toronto
November 09 2012 - 9:30AM
Marketwired
GroYourBiz, an organization formed in British Columbia to foster
and support women entrepreneurs and business owners through
peer-to-peer advisory groups, will be opening a new chapter in
Toronto at an event sponsored by BMO Bank of Montreal on Wednesday,
November 14, 2012.
Details of Toronto Launch Event:
When: Wednesday, November 14 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
What: Reception and Launch of the Toronto chapter of GroYourBiz
Where: BMO Bank of Montreal, 55 Bloor Street West, 3rd Floor, Quebec Room
Who: Barbara Mowat, President of GroYourBiz, a division of Impact
Communications
Marg Hachey, Managing Director, Ontario and Eastern Canada,
GroYourBiz
Karen Sawyer, Senior Manager Customer Programs, Commercial Banking
Media are welcome to attend. RSVP to Krysta Cooke, BMO Media
Relations, Tel: 416-867-3996.
About GroYourBiz.com
GroYourBiz brings a tactical and proven approach to meeting the
needs of women business owners. GroYourBiz will provide a monthly
peer-to-peer advisory group, top experts, business analysts, and
involvement of an alliance of top private sector organizations
working together to foster and support small-medium enterprises
(SMEs). Each month entrepreneurs will draw upon the skills,
expertise, inspiration and energy of like-minded entrepreneurs
offering practical solutions to attracting tomorrow's customers and
expansion needs. GroYourBiz also provides a strategic alliance with
Women Presidents' Organization (WPO) - the premier membership
organization for more than 1400 women presidents and CEOs of
privately held, multimillion dollar companies.
Barbara Mowat, Founder and President of GroYourBiz
Barbara is President of Impact Communications Ltd. and
GroYourBiz. She is known as a trade and international business
development specialist. Impact is a multi-faceted consulting
company that features management training and consulting and
international product, business and market development for the
global marketplace. Barbara created the well-respected Uniquely
Programs that assisted 12,000 Canadian entrepreneurs access
increased markets; created and owned a national magazine, a retail
store and an e-commerce site. She is an international leader in the
development of SME enterprises, and her work has assisted
entrepreneurs and facilitated trade throughout Canada, South East
Asia, USA, South America, Europe, Afghanistan, India and
Africa.
Currently Barbara is the Women Presidents' Organization Chapter
Chair in Vancouver for two chapters, serving women presidents and
CEOs of privately held, multimillion dollar companies who aim to
increase their business success, along with several GroYourBiz
chapters for women business owners wanting to make their first
million. She is also a TEC-Canada Chair for Presidents, CEOs and
Business Owners. Barbara continues to devote time as an Advisory
Board Member of the Global Banking Alliance for Women
Entrepreneurs. She is a certified woman business owner of WEConnect
Canada, as well as an Ambassador and member of United Succes
Network, and a Global Ambassador for TIAW (The International
Alliance for Women). By invitation, she also sits on the Global
Membership Circle for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.
Among her many awards and achievements, Barbara was winner of
the 1993 Canadian Businesswoman of the Year Award for Impact on the
Local Economy and was a recipient of the 2010 Governor General's
Award for the Persons Case, which recognizes individuals who have
made ongoing contributions to improving the lives of women and
girls in Canada.
Margaret Hachey, Managing Director, Ontario, GroYourBiz
Margaret Hachey was previously the owner of Duocom Canada Inc.,
which specialized in helping their clients use technology to
communicate, by selling or renting high-tech data/video projectors,
by designing and integrating classrooms, meeting rooms, boardrooms,
tactical control rooms, theatres and lecture halls, and by staging
large events. She founded the company in 1980 and grew it to $52
million in eight short years. Its success earned it recognition as
one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Private Companies, by Arthur
Andersen, CIBC and the National Post two years in a row. Chatelaine
and Profit magazine recognized her over a 10 year period as ranking
in the top 10 of the Top 100 Women business owners in Canada.
Previously, she has been on the Steering Committee of Step
Ahead, and a mentor for six years with the program, helping women
entrepreneurs whose businesses were in the second stage of growth.
She was also Special Advisor to Youth in Motion Education
Foundation a non-profit organization to help youth gain access to
higher education.
A sought after keynote speaker, Margaret has addressed audiences
across the country on various topics. She is a regular guest
lecturer at the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
and York University's Schulich School of Business.
As a founding member of WPO (Women Presidents Organization) in
Canada, Margaret has an opportunity to network and support other
women in like roles.
Contacts: Impact Communications Ltd. Barbara Mowat 604-534-5007
or Cell: 604-644-8298Barbara.Mowat@ImpactCommunicationsLtd.com
www.groyourbiz.com www.womenpresidentsorg.com
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