Your Business, Your Goal: How to turn your dreams into a reality
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with a brilliant idea but unsure about how to turn it into a thriving business? Join us for an illuminating moderated panel discussion featuring a diverse group of experts who will guide you through the crucial stages of funding your entrepreneurial dream and building it into a prosperous empire.
This engaging panel discussion will be conducted in a Q&A format, ensuring you get answers to your burning questions from the trifecta of entrepreneurship experts:
- Entrepreneur Extraordinaire: Jochebed Essel, Founder of the Home Goods Marketplace, Everyday Joy
A self-taught interior stylist inspired by the intersection of joy and home, Joche uses Everyday Joy to explore cultivating memorable experiences in our desired safe space. In November of 2021, Everyday Joy was created out of necessity to explore these same truths and create a collection of home goods people can enjoy.
- Non-Profit Champion: Mona-Lisa Prosper, Director of Futurpreneur’s Black Entrepreneur Startup Program.
A lawyer by trade, she also gained experience in entrepreneurship, human resources and economic development through her diverse career. Very involved in her community, she served as the President of the Women’s Young Chamber of Commerce of Québec for the past two years and continues to sit on multiple other boards. A proud ambassador of the importance of inclusive governance, she is also involved with different organizations promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Banking Guru: Solomon Egbon Iwegim, RBC Relationship Manager Business Markets
Solomon is an experienced financial services professional, community leader and advocate for diversity and inclusion. He immigrated to Canada with his family late 2017, and having worked in the banking sector back home, Solomon has over 19 years’ cumulative leadership experience in business development, operations management, governance and strategic planning.
