Building a Team: Community Based Business Suzanne Robinson meets me for coffee late on a Friday afternoon. She has just squeezed in a work out, and despite the fact that she is in sweats with a cap pulled over post-workout hair, she is still working. We luck into a private room, and as we sit [...]
Think about training. It is just before Christmas when I meet Randy Ansems, owner of Think Business Training, at the training facility in Burnside Industrial Park, Dartmouth. There are no creatures stirring as I walk in the front door; the place is- indeed- quiet as a mouse. But as we tour the classrooms and meeting [...]
Sewing the CEEDs of Entrepreneurship What if you were to turn the concept of entrepreneurship upside down? What if it wasn’t an end- something you worked toward and hopefully attained- but a means to an end? And what if that “end” meant something very different for everyone involved? Welcome to the Centre for Entrepreneurship and [...]
The uncommon group starts an uncommonly good thing. When I meet up with Gordon Stevens, owner of Halifax’s the Uncommon Group, at the flagship cafe on South Park St. he is finishing a meeting with the latest addition to I Love Local (HFX), a grassroots coalition of local independent businesses that Stevens spearheads. Halifax Seed [...]
Spanning the sectors linked but not chained. Appropriately, current President and C.E.O of United Way of Halifax Region Catherine Woodman and I start our interview chatting about Linked In. She has recently started exploring its possibilities, thanks to a tech-based “lunch and learn” spearheaded by some of the younger staff at United Way, and she [...]
It’s a very long way from Bulgaria, where Boris Mirtchev was born, to Mozambique where he grew up. A little longer still from Mozambique to the east coast of Canada and Halifax, the place Mirtchev now calls home. He has logged a lot of travel time, sampled a lot of foods, and absorbed a profusion [...]
Using business savvy to make people happy. Sometimes life throws you a curve ball and to your great surprise, you catch it. Garry Oliver and Kamila Rybicka were buried deeply in her very successful payroll processing company in Poland, caught up in the difficulties of doing business in a country that was still pulling itself [...]
I catch up with Juanita Peters somewhere between her work day and her French class. “I just spent a week with a Francophone group,” she tells me, “ and realized I needed to have someone on board who could speak the language.” So, she figures, why not her? It is her way of being able [...]
Mariana Cowen is an avid reader, a result of her quest for information- in turn a result of having somewhat blindly jumped into a career in real estate 24 years ago. At 23 years old she was a single parent of two children trying to figure out where to go with her life. She was [...]
