TORONTO, June 12, 2020 /CNW/ - The Scotiabank Women
Initiative™ (SWI) and Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) have
launched The Go-To: Special Edition podcast
series, for women entrepreneurs. The
Go-To podcasts focus on resilience. This special
edition offers Canadian women entrepreneurs tips and insight into
how they can build the capacity to grow, adapt and pivot to
transform their business. The podcasts include topic experts and
Canadian women entrepreneurs who provide applicable business
strategies, personal leadership considerations, and stories of
resilience in action.
Available in English and French, the five podcast episodes are
accessible now on Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify, at
www.fwe.ca/thegoto and on The Scotiabank Women Initiative
website.
"The Scotiabank Women Initiative is well positioned to support
women entrepreneurs through our three key pillars: Access to
Capital, Mentorship and Education," says Gillian Riley, President and CEO, Tangerine Bank
and Executive Sponsor of The Scotiabank Women Initiative. "As
Canadian business owners grapple with the current economic and
health crisis, resilience, now more than ever, is a critical
mindset for entrepreneurs. By collaborating with Forum for Women
Entrepreneurs to develop a special edition of The
Go-To podcasts, The Scotiabank Women Initiative aims to
provide entrepreneurs with useful and meaningful content to help
them grow, build, sustain and shape their business with long-term
success in mind."
Topics featured in the five-part special edition of The
Go-To podcast series are:
- The Resilient Mindset
- Minding Your Money
- Owning Your Personal Leadership
- The Heart of the Sell
- Finding and Delivering Your Value
"We are so grateful to collaborate with The Scotiabank Women
Initiative once again to bring timely and relevant support to women
entrepreneurs eager to emerge from this crisis stronger than ever,"
says Paulina Cameron, CEO of Forum
for Women Entrepreneurs. "Together with a comprehensive
workbook The Go-To: Special Edition is about education,
reflection, leadership and community. We invite all women
entrepreneurs to benefit from the podcasts and workbook for
free."
In 2019, FWE teamed up with The Scotiabank Women Initiative to
produce a 13-episode, bilingual podcast season – entitled The
Go-To: For Entrepreneurs in the Know, – geared at
addressing foundational topics for entrepreneurs, including
marketing, mindset, expansion and more. The special edition of
The Go-To podcast series is the latest addition to a
variety of educational offerings from The Scotiabank Women
Initiative.
In addition, The Scotiabank Women Initiative continues to find
new ways to support women-led businesses during the global COVID-19
pandemic through:
- The launch of a digital client newsletter for program
participants, providing access to practical and accessible
resources found on our Knowledge Centre like podcasts, research,
learning aids and educational videos.
- Sponsoring Femmessor's Brigade Expertes Femmessor, an
initiative launched in April matching women entrepreneurs impacted
by COVID-19 with experts, to provide one-on-one advice over the
phone or virtually.
- Scotiabank Business Banking relief measures.
The Scotiabank Women Initiative is continuously identifying new
approaches and adapting the program to respond to the needs of
women led businesses, now and in the future.
About The Scotiabank Women Initiative
The Scotiabank Women Initiative is a comprehensive program to
help advance women-owned and women-led businesses across
Canada through three key pillars:
Access to Capital, Mentorship and Education. Since launching in
December 2018, The Scotiabank Women
Initiative has achieved several notable milestones. In September 2019, the Bank committed to deploy
three billion dollars in
capital to women-led businesses in its first three years. The
program has engaged more than 1,500 women through our Boot
Camps and group mentorship sessions across Canada. We formed The Scotiabank Women
Initiative Advisory Board of Scotiabank executives, who
provide expertise to help women grow their businesses through
facilitated small group mentorship sessions and we developed an
online Knowledge Centre for self-directed learning. For more
information on The Scotiabank Women Initiative™,
visit scotiabankwomeninitiative.com.
About Scotiabank
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our
purpose: "for every future," we help our customers,
their families and their communities achieve success through a
broad range of advice, products and services, including personal
and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking,
corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team
of approximately 97,000 employees and assets of over $1.2 trillion (as at April
30, 2020), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange
(TSX: BNS) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BNS). For more
information, please visit http://www.scotiabank.com and
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About Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE)
Founded in
2002, FWE is a national organization that energizes, educates,
mentors and connects women entrepreneurs to be wildly successful,
promoting strengthened economies and thriving communities. FWE's
game-changing programs are available to any woman entrepreneur in
the country and support a community of over 700 women annually. To
learn more, visit www.fwe.ca.
SOURCE Scotiabank