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Generating renewable energy from a wood floor
How do you make a renewable, natural, oxygen-producing, CO2-storing material even more sustainable? Make it as close to zero-waste as possible. Wood waste left over after milling lumber already gets put to myriad valuable uses, from paper products to biomass fuel, and a new innovation will actually enable it to produce clean energy. Engineers…
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Women’s Leadership – Men’s Role
Women’s Leadership – Men’s Role from Idea Connector.net on Vimeo. What men can do to help advance Aboriginal women’s entrepreneurship. Q&As from the 2012 Conference on Aboriginal Entrepreneurship Women’s Leadership Panel.
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Profile: POSITIVE THOUGHTS, POSITIVE RESULTS
Profile of a Successful Aboriginal Woman Dr. Shannon McDonald It took her a long time to acquire self-confidence, but once she did she trained as a physician, completing her MD in 1998 (at the tender age of 40), followed with post-graduate medical training in Community Medicine and Psychiatry. She has had broad experience at multiple…
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From Social Assistance to PhD
Julie talks about her experience of living on social assistance to taking the path of personal growth to earn her PhD. In an insightful interview, she describes the road she took to achieve success, her determination, challenges, lessons learned and her road to work-life balance. Julie Pelletier, Chair and Associate Professor Department of Indigenous Studies…
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Connected North
Transforming education in Northern Communities — the Cisco experience in connecting schools in the North. Enhancing Education in remote Northern communities has become a little easier. Willa Black Vice President, Corporate Affairs Cisco To view additional content on the 2nd Annual Creative Leaders’ Symposium click Symposium Please, share this video, use button and add…
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Community Based Volunteer Training Programs
In a panel Yogendra Chaudhry with Carol Crowe, and Kara Flynn talk about the development of people skills needed to implement community volunteer programs in Aboriginal communities, schools and to non-Aboriginal organizations. As well as working collaboratively with Aboriginal communities. Yogendra Chaudhry, PhD., VP, Professional Services, ECO Canada Carol Crowe, Instructor, Parkland College (BEAHR)…
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A Force to Reckon With – Women, Entrepreneurship and Risk
By Janice McDonald, and Clare Berckon Last summer, as part of our study to ascertain how women entrepreneurs look at risk, we crossed Canada asking entrepreneurs about their approach to risk in their businesses. We wanted to test the oft quoted assumption that female entrepreneurs are risk averse. As we spoke to predominately female entrepreneurs…
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Creating a Leadership Culture
By Lana Binning Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he has the potential to become and you make him better than he is.– Goethe If we are taught effective habits but are then placed into a defective habitat (culture), one that is unfriendly, unsafe,…
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Insights: Corporations Preparing for their First Business Meeting with an Aboriginal Community.
Bob shares his experience in planning meetings with Aboriginal communities to discuss business opportunities. Corporations intending to meet with an Aboriginal community should keep in mind Bob’s insights on typical formalities and expectations. Bob Crane Aboriginal Business & Development Manager for Eastern Canada, ATCO Structures & Logistics Please, share this video, use button and…
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Foresight – What if Aboriginal Youth were Offered Means to Achieve their Full Potential?
In the context of a 2015 Foresight Exercise “A Framework for Building Relationships” (to see report click here) , we have asked 8 Aboriginal personalities to share their views on eight questions. The fourth question was: “What if Aboriginal Youth were Offered means to Achieve their Full Potential?” Bob Crane and panel ATCO Structures and…