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Navigating Neurodiversity
Transform your understanding of neurodiversity in the workplace through the unique lens of someone who’s lived it. Join neurodivergent consultant and educator Jenine Lillian (they/them) for an engaging session that combines personal experience as a late-diagnosed autistic professional with over 30 years of expertise in education and professional development.
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How Inclusive Entrepreneurship Drives Innovation
Inclusive Entrepreneurship is more than just a social endeavor, it’s good business sense! Don’t take it from us though. Our guest educator, accessibility advocate, and IWSCC Certified Business Owner Jolene MacDonald is here to share experience, expertise, and advice from Accessibrand.
Using RFPs to Build Your Brand
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.
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Stress Management for Entrepreneurs
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.
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A Practical Guide to SAP Ariba
Stone Procurement Inc.’s Igli Xhango joins IWSCC to share their experience with one of Canada’s most popular e-procurement tools: SAP Ariba. Learn to navigate the tool, set up a profile as a supplier, and maximize buyer interest by completing that profile the right way.
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Disability Literacy 101
Mindset’s Disability Literacy 101 seminar challenges assumptions, stereotypes and biases with authentic lived-experiences shared by highly-regarded subject-matter experts representing various disabilities. Wherever you may be in your diversity, equity and inclusion journey, mindset is fashioned to help you move the dial.
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A.I. & Automation for Small Businesses
A.I. is the modern technical revolution. In such a rapidly changing field, it can be difficult for a busy entrepreneur to wrap their head around the wealth of options, solutions, and tools hitting the marketplace. What can A.I. do for small businesses? WACADs Group is here to help you get started.

Community Resource Partners

Boundless Accelerator™ is an award-winning accelerator that equips entrepreneurs with expert mentorship, resources, education, and connections to help them build innovative, sustainable ventures. We offer unique programs and initiatives to support businesses from startup to scaleup for a strong, diverse, inclusive, sustainable economy. Based in Guelph, Ontario, we are in the heart of the Toronto-Waterloo Innovation Corridor, striving to create a future where entrepreneurship knows no limits.

Community Futures is a federal government program delivering business development services in rural and remote Canadian communities. Their British Colombia offices (CFBC) provide Accessible Entrepreneurship services in both rural and metropolitan BC, as well as online.

Their Entrepreneurs with Disabilities program offers assistance for entrepreneurs with a disability or ongoing health issue to help build and develop their business. Services include assistance developing a business plan, training, business coaching, and access to funding opportunities.

Ready, Willing and Able (RWA) is a national initiative by Inclusion Canada and the Autism Alliance of Canada, funded by the Government of Canada. It aims to increase employment for people with an intellectual disability or autism. RWA partners with employers to generate job opportunities and works with over 250+ supported employment agency partners to help job seekers succeed in the workplace. RWA also supports post-secondary students and entrepreneurs with an intellectual disability or autism, and runs The Inclusive Workplace, an online resource hub for inclusive employment.

Startup Help Inc. is a groundbreaking nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individuals facing socioeconomic challenges in building successful businesses. We believe that entrepreneurship has the power to break down barriers and create opportunities for all. At Startup Help, we understand that talent and ambition are not confined to any particular demographic or background. We recognize the untapped potential within communities that have historically been marginalized or underserved.