Shannon is a writer, designer and adventure seeker based out of the beautiful PNW. She’s a proud fisherman’s wife, and spends much of her downtime curled up with a book and a London Fog in hand. On her working days, you can usually find her working in her studio…
An entrepreneur has to work even harder when it’s boring, demotivating and depressing. You cannot give up. Alexis Assadi is an entrepreneur, investor, blogger and podcaster. He manages a group of business/real estate financing companies, including as the Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Income Capital Corporation. He aims to…
Find a system that works for you in as much as a proactive state as possible. Test it, tweak it, implement it, gather data, and make it better next time, always move it forward. Grace brings over 18 years of experience in business specializing in brand strategy, shopper marketing,…
Being organized is fun once you get the right system for your lifestyle. Jane Stoller is a Lifebizz Organizer, Author and University Instructor who found her passion in de-cluttering spaces, business processes and closets. The Structure Strategist loves to help companies and individuals get more organized. Where did Jane’s…
Avoid anything that gets between you and doing what you say. Jonathon Karelse is a co-founding partner of NorthFind Partners, a global management consultancy that focuses on providing expertise in areas that include sales and operations planning, inventory strategy and mergers and acquisitions. Before leading NorthFind, Jonathon served as…
I want to forever improve my focus. Focus is a skill that helps me personally and professionally. Meditation is something that I do every morning that helps me improve on my focus. Mazdak Mohammadi is the owner of blueberrycloud, a fantastic web design shop based in Vancouver, Canada. Mazdak’s…
You’re better at what you do than you think you are. Rebecca has spent the last 5 years running her own business as a career coach, where she helps people who are dissatisfied with their job figure out what they want to do instead—so they can make both an…
Focus on the key issue, clarify the value proposition and hit it hard. Issa Nakhleh grew up in Vancouver, where he attended UBC prior to obtaining his professional accounting designation. He started his finance career at MDA. Although his time there was only two years, it was highly influential to…
Write manuals that describe all repeatable processes. Once in a while, follow the manual you wrote to a T. Andrei Mincov is the founder and CEO of Trademark Factory®, the only firm in the world that offers trademarking services with a guaranteed result for a guaranteed budget. Andrei became…
Always question the conventional wisdom. Test your assumptions. The clink of bottles, the smell of beer, the buzz of activity – this is Steamworks Brewery. This is Eli Gershkovitch is in his element. Having long ago traded in his navy suits and wingtip shoes for jeans and steel toed boots,…