Happy National Accessibility Week! This week, and all summer long, IWSCC is celebrating Canadian Disabled-Owned businesses with our Reach Success project and submissions from our community like this one.
Today we’re honoured to share the perspective, experience, and values of the 2025 Certified Supplier of the Year, Michelle AuCoin: Entrepreneur, educator, and founder of LearnAbility Educational Solutions.
Congratulations to Accessibrand, the 2026 Reach Forum Certified Disabled-Owned business of the year! This summer, IWSCC is celebrating Accessibrand and other Canadian Disabled-Owned businesses all summer long with the Reach Success Project: A series of articles exploring entrepreneurship and success.
Rather than a broad “tips for procurement” session, the webinar will focus on a single, concrete lesson: how Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) can use the Request for Proposal (RFP) process as a strategic branding and positioning tool, regardless of outcome. Participants will be guided through how procurement processes signal values, credibility, and capability, and…
For many Small and Medium-sized businesses (also called Small and Medium Enterprises or SMEs), losing a bid can feel like failing. They spend time, stretch their resources, and get their hopes up, only to be met with silence or a brief regret notice.
That reaction is understandable, but incomplete.
Procurement is more than just one transaction. It’s a process built on signals, relationships, and risk assessment. Seen this way, a lost bid isn’t the end of the conversation. Often, it’s the start of being noticed.
Starting and running a business while managing disability, neurodivergence, and/or veteran-related challenges creates unique stressors that standard entrepreneurial advice rarely addresses. Many face a triple burden: business demands, the realities of disability or neurodivergence, and systemic barriers.
This interactive webinar offers an evidence-based, accessibility-focused, and lived-experience-driven approach to stress management.
The Community Spotlight Project is dedicated to providing a platform for our suppliers to express themselves and to share their passion, their ambition, and their ingenuity with the IWSCC community and beyond.
Sharing their perspective today is Andrew Melchers and their IWSCC Certified Veteran-Owned Business IN Engineering + Planning.
An accessible event reflects the world we want to create: one where everyone can participate, contribute, and connect. When we welcome more voices into the room, conversations become richer. Experiences expand. Relationships deepen.
Accessibility is not just a technical requirement. It is a culture.
Catch up with IWSCC and some of our biggest announcements and favourite moments of 2025. We can’t wait to bring even more value and support to Canada’s Veteran-Owned and Disabled-Owned Businesses in the new year!
Each year IWSCC’s Evolve Forum brings together members of the Canadian Veteran-Owned business community to share their experiences. Learn a little more about this year’s speakers Justin Yaassoub, Igli Xhango, and Andrew Kirsch along with us!