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About this Event You have built a company that matters, creating value for customers, employees, and your community. You want to stabilize where you are now and position your business to achieve growth and innovation for what lies ahead. No one can predict the future, although you want to be clear on what is most important to make the right decisions to persevere and succeed. And you want to protect the people who are with you and provide a bigger future of possibility and opportunity. But there is a lot of noise around you, too much information in fact, distracting you from what is most important, and taking your attention from where you need to be. And people are talking about the same things again and again. And the pandemic has created upheaval and disruption, and it continues – leaving you worried about what is happening with people in your company. Are people in your business focused on the right opportunities to sustain revenues? Are people in your business investing time to innovate? Are people in your business able to cope with the accelerated pace and scale of challenges hitting the company? The key to the future of your business […]

About this Event You have built a company that matters, creating value for customers, employees, and your community. You want to stabilize where you are now and position your business to achieve growth and innovation for what lies ahead. No one can predict the future, although you want to be clear on what is most important to make the right decisions to persevere and succeed. And you want to protect the people who are with you and provide a bigger future of possibility and opportunity. But there is a lot of noise around you, too much information in fact, distracting you from what is most important, and taking your attention from where you need to be. And people are talking about the same things again and again. And the pandemic has created upheaval and disruption, and it continues – leaving you worried about what is happening with people in your company. Are people in your business focused on the right opportunities to sustain revenues? Are people in your business investing time to innovate? Are people in your business able to cope with the accelerated pace and scale of challenges hitting the company? The key to the future of your business […]

Join the conversation about how student wage subsidies can help you take your business to the next level at little to no cost. About this Event A Zoom link will be emailed to you at 10:00am day of the event.   Join the conversation about how student wage subsidies can help you take your business to the next level for little or no cost. Tim Perron: ICTC Atlantic Regional Coordinator, Margaret Schwartz : NS Department of Labour and Advanced Education Youth Outreach Coordinator, and Theresa Myra: Dalhousie University Co-op Education Coordinator, to learn about the Provincial and Federal wage subsidy opportunities to make it easier for small businesses, non-profits and startups to hire post-secondary youth into meaningful career opportunities. Key takeaways from this session will include: • How co-op students can add value to your organization • Gain an understanding of the ICTC WIL-Digital program • Provincial youth employment programs such as Graduate to Opportunity and the Co-op Education Incentive. • Find out how to match your needs with student talent Register Now

Hosted by the Cape Breton Partnership, this webinar will feature a presentation and update from Deborah Page, Director of Marketing and Communications with Develop Nova Scotia on the Internet for Nova Scotia Initiative in Cape Breton. This webinar is open to the public and free to attend, however, pre-registration is required. The session will be capped at 100 participants, however, the webinar will be recorded and shared on the Cape Breton Partnership social media channels to ensure the information is accessible to all. Register Now

About The Webinar ​​​​​​​This 45-min webinar will give you a quick introduction into customer discovery. You'll learn how many of the world's fastest-growing companies use customer discovery to make better decisions and grow 2-3X faster. We believe that the customer discovery process is often overlooked but if done correctly it can yield amazing results. We want to help set you and your brilliant idea up for success. We hope to see you on Thursday, July 23 from 12:30-1:15 pm. ​​​​​​​ ​​​​ ​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​About Katelyn Bourgoin: ​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​She is a 4X founder turned growth strategist and trainer. She understands the challenges business leaders face because she's ​​​​​​​been there herself. With operational experience spanning the marketing, tech, and ​​​​​​​hospitality sectors, Katelyn has been named as an influential entrepreneur by Forbes magazine and featured in Inc., HuffPost, Bustle, CBC, CTV, Global TV and more. Katelyn is recognized as one of the " top 20 wonder women of SaaS marketing and growth" by SaaStock. Her past clients include high-growth tech startups, SMBs, business support organizations, and Fortune 500 companies like ​​​​​​​Target and Holiday Inn. Today Katelyn is the CEO of Customer Camp and helps frustrated founders, marketers, salespeople to focus on what really matters- their customers. After all, whoever gets […]

This visioning workshop will help you establish a clear mission, vision, and build confidence in your business plans. About this Event Join Volta and Natalie Frederick-Wilson from Centre for Women in Business on July 23 at 5:30pm for a visioning workshop. Natalie will guide participants through a visioning exercise that will help you establish a clear mission and vision, and build confidence in your plan to start and grow your business. By participating in the session, you will be able to describe your business' value proposition, articulate your vision for the future, and know what steps to take next to create or update your business plan. About the speaker: Natalie Frederick-Wilson is a former business owner, who joined the Centre for Women in Business in October 2019 with a goal to inspire women and students to go from innovative idea to startup, and beyond. She does this by connecting them to the right business advice, tools and training. Natalie holds a certificate in Business Development and in Leadership and Innovation from Dalhousie University and has extensive experience in business automation and customer service management. As an American immigrant of Afro-Caribbean descent, Natalie believes that helping others succeed is the greatest […]

Cybersecurity is a fast growing field. Would you like to start learning the basics of how to protect your computer? This summer camp is designed for beginners to help understand how to prevent cyber attacks. The camp is designed to be hands-on, going through the basics to secure Windows and Linux based computers. On the last day, there will be a mini-competition with those participating. One week only! Seats are limited! July 27-31 starting at 9:00am each day. Camp will be held via teleconference. For Youth 12-18 years old. Participants should have DSL internet connection and Windows OS computer. Registration is free. Register Now