Leading with Purpose: The Power of Values-driven Businesses

As COO of Flytgrapher, Paulina is scaling the global business to help customers capture meaningful moments and turn them into forever memories. Previously she was CEO of The Forum, where she led a national Canadian organization that educates, mentors and connects women entrepreneurs to thrive. She is the author of bestselling Canada 150 Women: conversations with champions, leaders and luminaries; and was the co-founder and president of Young Women in Business. Paulina is the Chair of the Board of the Immigrant Employment Council of BC and serves on the Board of Directors for the YWCA Metro Vancouver and the Government of British Columbia’s Small Business Roundtable. She has been recognized in the community by being selected as the Globe and Mail's Changemakers 2022, Business in Vancouver’s Top 40 Under 40 2019, and being awarded the BCBusiness 2019 Most Influential Women in Finance Award, among others.

Suzanne is a CPA-turned-entrepreneur and the co-founder of Aisle (formerly Lunapads). Suzanne and her team not only developed the category for period underwear and other reusable menstrual products, but has been a leading advocate for menstrual equity and innovative solutions to combat period poverty in Canada. A past recipient of EY’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year award, Suzanne led the company’s certification efforts to become the top ranked period care B Corporation in the world.

Yasmin is President and Co-founder of Kambo Energy Group, a social enterprise that reduces energy poverty and improves housing in communities that have been traditionally underprioritized across the Canada and the US. For over 14 years Kambo has supported communities through its three flagship programs: Empower Me, an education and awareness program designed to support environmental justice communities; the Home Upgrades Program, a first-of-its-kind deep energy retrofit program to reduce energy poverty, and Community Power which works with Tribal and First Nations to take action on housing.

Yasmin is a leading expert in equity-based energy and climate programming, working with governments and utilities across North America to design and deliver inclusive solutions. Yasmin holds an MBA from the Sauder School of Business, a certificate of Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University, is a member of the Efficiency Canada Governing Council, a founding member of the National Affordability Action Council, a member of the Faculty Advisory Board for the Sauder School of Business at UBC, and a member of the Zero Emissions Building Task Force at the City of Burnaby.