Kicking it off right ⁦The51⁩. Why we do what we do! #Financialfeminism #wearethe51

CALGARY and ALBERTA .. the place to find outstanding women entrepreneurs !! Kudos to Carbonova of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) for winning Inventures Canada “Greening the Blue Planet” and the women that won the Hunter Hub Hunter Hub @ UCalgary Energy New Ventures pitch !

🙏 - Huge thanks to all in Calgary and AB who are making a difference in building a talented workforce for the digital era. Calgary Economic Dev evolve-u-student U Calgary SAIT Bow Valley College Brad Zumwalt Laura Kilcrease

Congrats to female founders Emily FREDsense and Prageet ReWatt Power !!!

Wise words from Whitney - author of “Disrupt Yourself”

So pleased to see #Shadcalgary thriving ! Shout out to Elizabeth Cannon and Shad Canada for bringing CALGARY into the Shad family years back . Shad gives Canada’s brightest high school students a unique opportunity to stretch, solving tough STEAM challenges as entrepreneurs !

Congrats Olds College of Agriculture & Technology @abinnovates and all partners. Special shout-out to @stuartfcullum for your patient leadership over the past few years to bring this exciting agtech network to fruition!

Pleased to be joined at the hip with Alice Reimer Alice Reimer and Shelley Kuipers in driving The51 forward. Join us Sept 24th 4 pm in Calgary .. the51.com for sign-up information

Shoutout to the “get it done”, innovative leaders at Calgary Economic Dev & Platform Calgary table with Terry Rock & myself.. driving “Calgary in the New Economy”. Thanks to the group leads: enterprise AI/ML (@suncor), innovation district (atbfinancial) & “buy startup” VizworX Inc. !

Thanks CDL らぼさん for bringing together the magic formula of “can-do” founders and “can-do” seasoned business leaders and experts to #BuildSomethingMassive.

Kudos to Enersoft and Ingu - so proud of these Calgary based, Creative Destruction Lab companies ! Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)

The51’s next event is Nov 25th ! The one and only Colleen Moorehead will share sage advice (as an entrepreneur / investor & founder of “The Judy Project”) on how women can advance in business, while staying true to themselves! Click the link in @_the51’s bio to sign up!

Thank you Jill Female Funders - great work in educating female angels!

Maggie - thank you so much for your eloquence !!! So appreciate all you do..

WeWork got more VC investment than female founders in 2019 🤢 AND YET for every $1 raised, women-run startups generated 78c in revenue vs 31c for men. ✊🏽#womenlead #sdg5 fortune-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/fortune.co…

We’re thrilled for an exciting new partnership between The51, Haskayne School of Business U Calgary and the Canadian Women's Foundation ... Announcing the first ever Financial Feminism Investing Lab! Read the full story here: the51.com/news/the51-par…

These 7 women-led initiatives are pushing for progress on gender equality in their own way! Featuring some of our favourite initiatives like The51 and Shine Bootcamp! bit.ly/386jVah #womeninleadership #IWD2021 #IWD

This week for #financialfeministfriday Coffee Live Judy Fairburn and Shelley Kuipers will be joined by the one and only Jos Dirkx! Among her many other accomplishments and titles, Jos is CEO of Beenovia AI. Don't miss this chat! See you Friday at 10am MT on Instagram.