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Leveraging two decades of founding & building 5 companies, Aaron puts entrepreneurial skills to work now for the great consciousness movement by paving the way toward helping organizations, leaders and society writ large find themselves; be in greater connection and solve for alignment to true purpose. Currently, in his role at ConsciousCircles.org Aaron is creating "conscious circles" around the world for leaders, entrepreneurs and all trying to find their way through life's big transitions.  His circles focus on getting clarity of true-self by cultivating a trusted space for our souls to be revealed and human wholeness be found. 

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A workshop to create and deepen the connection with your B Corp community peers by working together to learn how to be a more conscious, values aligned leader.   As a collective, we will dive deep into the Interdependent connection of our personal leadership to igniting collective action,  thus creating a sustainable impact.   A holistic approach to creating greater good in the world through increasing your own personal capacity of “Me” to build a stronger team of “We” and ultimately make the “World” a better place. 

In this highly interactive workshop we have been very intentional on providing the space for shared learning experiences, facilitated group connection exercises and intimate 1 on 1 opportunity to create a more immersive learning experience and a greater connection to your community of leaders.  You’ll take these workshop tools into the next 2 days of Champions Retreat where we will discuss our individual and collective roles of Interdependence. If you will be attending Champions Retreat for the first time, this is a unique opportunity to lay the foundation in order to make the most of your time at Champions Retreat,

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The world of work is going through a prolonged period of uncertainty. Structural changes to our economy are superimposed by technological advancements allied with the 4th industrial revolution. These changes affect us all, but especially the young who are getting ready to enter the labor market in a globalized but increasingly uncertain market economy. This paper focuses on the future of entrepreneurship in the 4th industrial revolution and explores opportunities available to Millennials and Generation Z. It aims to understand how new generations may harness the power of entrepreneurship to navigate through the 4th Industrial Revolution. The paper is based on a thematic inquiry and interview data derived from a recent study with University graduates. Interviews enabled deep meanings to be drawn out of the rich experiences of graduates who wanted to start a business, where some had succeeded but others had not. Conclusions were drawn from contextual interpretations of participants and the way they organized their experiences. Entrepreneurship is presented, not just as a viable career option, but also as a lifestyle choice and an avenue for self-actualization for new generations. In doing so this paper distinguishes technological advancements as expected metamorphic developments of the 3^rd Industrial revolution and suggest that social change and the transformation of individual economic actors is at the core of the 4^th industrial revolution. 

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Being a biotechnologist at heart, this seemed like a relatively straightforward definition to start off with, but little did I know about the depth and expanse of this field that has me so passionately involved with Aevus Precision Diagnostics in their Business Development team.

I always wondered what it would it would be like to work for a startup, especially in an area of my interest, so when Cameron Owen (our awesome CEO) pitched me the idea, I saw no reason as to why I wouldn’t want to be a part of a diagnostic team that was changing the way the world looked at precision medicine. 

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Claudio Sorrentino is an entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and executive with over 20 years of business experience in the retail, medical, hospitality, and marketing industries. Being a serial entrepreneur, he is well experienced in establishing new businesses right from scratch and turning them into a huge success. His proven ability to quickly analyze key business drivers and develop strategies to grow the bottom-line are what he considers as his strongest points. Being an all-rounder, he possesses a strong knowledge of all business aspects especially, entrepreneurship, business development, finance, and operations. He left the nation’s largest MedSpa to found Body Details and become its Chairman and CEO. Body Details is currently the largest provider of cosmetic laser services in Southeast Florida and is regarded as one of the nation's fastest-growing cosmetic laser service provider recognized by Inc 5000. He possesses a strong knowledge of all skin and body treatments, including skin rejuvenation, tattoo and hair removal.

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‘Nothing worth having is ever easy.’ So rightly said! However, my extended version of this quote says, ‘Nothing worth having is ever easy and you make it even more difficult by plunging yourself into the wide realm of entrepreneurship’. So, why do people do it? If you ask me, you just can’t help it when your mind is full of ideas and you feel like a born entrepreneur. You are so motivated to chase your dreams that you accept nothing but success. The problems that you come across during the process are part of the package and are surely not easy to surpass but with the right attitude, you not only resolve them but you also learn to capitalize on them. In my session, I will share my story. No lies, no tales but purely my account of events. Starting from scratch to building an empire that I own today, I will take you along on this roller coaster ride. My aim is to share my experience to motivate and help. There are a lot of things that I wish I knew earlier but for you, I am ready to share all that I know and have learned from my experience. Let’s jump in this bandwagon together and come out as glorious winners!

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Celine Williams is a business strategist, executive coach and expert in leadership development for the 21^st century workplace. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she is still actively involved as a mentor at The Hatchery, and Coach U, one of the world’s preeminent coaching schools. She has over 15 years’ experience working with fast-growing organizations, small businesses, and entrepreneurs, and is a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies. She is sought after for her expertise in accelerating performance, designing culture, improving emotional intelligence, and facilitating effective communication.

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As humans, our ability to communicate enables our ability to connect with each other. There is no single skill that can make or break a person’s success in life and in business quite like that of effective communication-to put it simply communication is the most powerful tool we have available to us when we know how to use it. Mastering the concepts of Emotional Intelligence is the foundation you need as a business owner or leader if you want to start seeing the kind of results you deserve. Celine Williams has been training entrepreneurs and businesses around the world in Emotional Intelligence for the past 6 years. During that time she realized that the traditional model of Emotional Intelligence just isn’t enough anymore. Because of the added challenges inherent in navigating a global economy and a remote workforce, there are nuances that are missing in traditional discussions of Emotional Intelligence. In this presentation, she will review her model of Remotional Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence for a Remote World. You will walk away understanding the 4 key areas we will need to master to thrive in a remote world and how you can effectively use them to improve your communication. You will learn specific tactics and tricks to improving your ability to communicate and as a result, the impact you have on those around you. The key to success inside any business comes down to one thing: people. The most successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and business owners know that they must continuously communicate effectively with the people around them if they want to continue to be successful. If you want to build and grow your business, it’s as straightforward as this, you must master the art of emotional intelligence so you can communicate effectively and have the impact and outcomes you want.

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Caryn Ross is an inspiring and motivating speaker/trainer coach with a straight-forward and open communication style which makes her unique. She’s the CEO/Founder of Specta Bridge Solutions and a certified life coach who has demonstrated a track record of success in presentations and coaching on leadership mastery and impactful communication methodologies for professionals and c-suite executives with a growth mindset approach. In one of her first positions as a manager with the Macy’s executive training program, she developed her keen awareness in the partnership of clear communications with business results. It was here, she realized the importance of the human element to run a successful business with self- confidence, and empowerment.

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Everyone can empower, influence and call others to positive actions through the right growth mindset and communication strategies. This topic will further dive into the importance of self-love and self-confidence as a woman, understanding its value to manifest it into their business, and communicate it with the intention to achieve personal and professional goals. Tools and strategies will be shared to understand its importance and to do it with the intention to reach your goals. Attendees will learn (a) tools and strategies to empower self-love as a woman with a specific mindset and manifest it daily into your business and daily lives (b) understand your worth and do it with intention to reach your goals (c) calls of actions to implement daily to increase self-confidence and awareness to build impactful relationships, improve negotiations, and empower leadership for professional and personal success.

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Craig Dunkerley is an international #1 best-selling author and speaker. As CEO and founder of Blackthorn Group, he has made it his mission to help as many Canadians as possible become millionaires. He is a financial expert and his firm focuses on reducing taxes of people, entrepreneurs, small business owners, and corporations. He is a true Tax and Investment Guru and will change your mind set on how you look at expenses and teach you how to write off almost everything you spend, just like the wealthy do. Start putting large refunds in your pocket year after year. It’s how much you ‘keep’ that counts! From there he will show you how to take this free money, the money you were giving away and make it work for you, not the bank, not the government, for you.

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The presentation provides real-life stories, examples, and anecdotes of the financial challenges of most Canadians and how some simple shifts can overcome them and create positive change that not only brings more wealth but creates financial freedom. Do not expect typical financial discussions. Expect out of the box thinking and strategies that your bank will not share with you, legitimate and legal strategies to put tax dollars back in your pocket and get your money working for you. See how easy it is to put more money in your pocket and generate generational wealth. After choosing at the age of 32 to leave the corporate world and successful career behind, Craig turned his part-time accounting business into a full-time firm. As an entrepreneur since he was 12-years old, he was now ready to do it full time and share his knowledge with others, taking control of his life for himself and his family. Purchasing his first real estate rental property at 23 years old and building it into a real estate empire for himself and others, he will show you the power of duplication. Looking at the minimalist results so many were getting in their RRSPs, in 2001 he started teaching how self-directing low fee funds could keep 60 to 70% of the gains in your account as opposed to your banks’ profits. He will share this information with you. He was fortunate as a child having his father share his knowledge of money and numbers with him. He knew everything from an early age for the finances of the family and the household. As an analytic, he started to challenge many of the financial numbers and results he saw early on and built strategies to improve them. This has led to further development of strategies for financial freedom and helping people get connected with their money and creating personal wealth for them. With stories interwoven, the presentation will provide 3 strategies of how to live a financially free lifestyle. The audience will gain insights into strategies to write off almost everything they spend to generate large tax refunds, how this “free money” (Money you were letting slip through your fingertips) can build wealth. How a couple of very simple changes to their investments can add 60 to 70% more to their current gains and how easy it is to take control of your money, get connected with it and make it work harder for you. It’s what you do not know that’s hurting you and with a little bit of connection, everything can change.

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Anne Berthinier-Poncet holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and is currently an Associate Professor at the CNAM Paris, France, a lifelong learning university, where she teaches innovation management to professionals (evening classes at master’s level, MBA and corporate training seminars). Alongside her teaching activities, she undertakes academic research in management, in the field of innovation and territorial embeddedness. Her main research topics are focused on the management of collaborative innovation in innovation ecosystems. She studied the governance and dynamics of innovation clusters (technopoles, competitiveness clusters), “third-spaces” (fab labs and coworking spaces), as well as innovation communities. She concentrates her research on SMEs and their abilities to develop open and collaborative innovation. Her latest research deals with the outdoor sports industry and the link between innovation management and specific territorial anchorage (“playing field”), in France, Canada, and Italy.

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Although the notion of the ecosystem has become very popular in the field of innovation management and entrepreneurship (for industrials, academics and government as well), it still encompasses a large variety of different perspectives. Following Spiegel (2017:50), we define an innovation ecosystem in relation to entrepreneurship as “the combination of social, political, economic, and cultural elements within a region that support the development and growth of innovative startups and encourage nascent entrepreneurs and other actors to take the risks of starting, funding, and otherwise assisting high-risk ventures”. Entrepreneurship is tightly linked to the notion of the ecosystem as the development, the success but also the failure of new ventures not only depend on the company’s assets but also on its external partners and networks. Entrepreneurial dynamics often involve a collective work, "created not by "an" entrepreneur but by a team of entrepreneurs" (Vieira Borges et al., 2003, p.13) and strongly rely on the interactions between the different actors of the ecosystem: from formal actors (political institutions, large firms, universities, research labs, innovation intermediaries, clusters) to informal ones (innovation communities). In return, entrepreneurial dynamics are at the heart of the renewal of innovation ecosystems. Entrepreneurial dynamics and innovation ecosystem are indeed two concepts closely linked. However, research on the topic is still underdeveloped, in particular in looking more precisely at the processes through which innovation ecosystems deliver benefits to entrepreneurs and start-ups: how they encourage the creation of high-quality ventures and give these firms some sort of competitive advantage that helps them grow and thrive (Spiegel & Harrison, 2018). The question of strategy then arises differently for entrepreneurs (Iansiti & Levien, 2004; Teece, 2007), and with it the question of finding the best sustainable environment for new venturing (Porter, 2003). It is not just about positioning oneself in a competitive environment to capture value, but also about acting on that environment, as an actor engaged in a process of value co-creation (Adner, 2006; Adner & Kapoor, 2010). If the central role of the interactions between the actors within an ecosystem led to the development of different works integrating the question of the geographical proximity of the actors, it also highlighted the territorial dimension of the entrepreneurial dynamics within ecosystems of innovation (Gertler et al. 2000).

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Calvin Wayman is a guy with an unconventional background. He actually comes from a large polygamous family. He grew up with one dad, four moms (yup, FOUR), and forty-four siblings! Three years ago, he quit his day job, transformed multiple areas of his life, and documented everything along the way. Today, he is a best-selling author ("Fish Out of Water"), TEDx Speaker, and has shared the stage with fellow groundbreakers including Brendon Burchard, Mel Robbins, Lewis Howes, and Jay Shetty. His journey has taken him from a cloistered upbringing in Utah, through debt and poor health, to self-actualized prosperity. In sharing his journey, he paints a vivid picture. Through all of his heartbreak, fear, and struggle are moments and feelings that you’ll recognize in your own journey. In his personal transformation, you’ll find lessons and strategies for building your own version of your best self.

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Imagine being born into a family so large that the number one question people ask you is: “do you remember all of your siblings’ names?” Calvin Wayman grew up in a strict fundamentalist religion—he had 1 dad, 4 moms, and 44 brothers and sisters. Let’s face it. Entrepreneurs are often the weird, awkward, “crazy ones” that don’t fit in. And being 1 in a family of 50, Calvin Wayman felt that “out of place” feeling all too well. He grew up on a family farm but knew that he was destined for more. After never stepping foot inside a public school, he ultimately left everything he ever knew to pursue his dream of being an entrepreneur and making his mark on the world. This remarkable story shows that you can turn your biggest obstacles and can turn that into your greatest opportunity.

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Aditya Mehta is a student at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in the School of Liberal Studies who is currently in his 3^rd year of Bachelors of Commerce programme with Finance as his major subject and Insurance as his minor subject. He has interned in various small and large organizations for a multitude of subjects like hospitality management, finance, accounting, public relations, advertisement, media management & marketing. He has also worked in the social welfare sector by helping refugee & orphaned children study various subjects like basic English & Mathematics. In 2018 he went to Malaysia for an internship wherein he played the role of a guide and a teacher to students of 3 public schools and underprivileged children by helping them learn how to communicate, public speaking and taught them the importance of working in a team to increase efficiency. After completing his undergraduate course Aditya aims to work in the financial market as a portfolio manager for some time and further his knowledge of the financial field after which he wishes to pursue a post graduate degree in finance. Apart from this he loves health and fitness, travelling the world, learning about human anatomy & psychology and conversations about philosophy & existence.

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E-wallets have emerged as the most significant contributor in pushing cashless and electronic payments. The surge of smartphones and internet connectivity of 3G and 4G is reflected in the robust growth of mobile-wallets in India. The Indian market is still a cash-dominated market but if anything has managed to decrease that even a little, it has been the rise of mobile payments through the use of e-wallets like Paytm, Quikwallet, Tez, Mobikwik, etc. There was a need for quick, cashless and traceable transactions in the Indian system, e-wallets enabled this by being linked to the biometric details of the people through their Unique Aadhar number along with their mobile number and other key bank details. The consumer perception of digital payment has a significant and positive impact on the adoption of digital payment. The present paper focuses on the analysis of the adoption level of these digital payment systems by customers. This paper also throws light on issues like the impact of demonetization decision on preference for online payments, the impact of various demographic factors on the usage of e-wallets & problems faced while using e-wallets.

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Riya Gandhi is an undergraduate third-year student at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) India. Her bachelor degree is on Business Administration and Liberal Studies. She is majoring in Marketing and Minoring in Economics. She has done internships at Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), Intas Pharmaceuticals (Finance & Accounts Intern), Wagh Bakri Tea Group (Supply Chain Intern), Visamo Kids Foundation (Student Mentor). She has been part of various University clubs like the Photography Club, Fashion Club and Events Club. She is also having her own startup business with her sister named Voyage Mate which is a Travel & Tourism Company.

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In the last three decades, the Indian economy has observed considerable growth in almost all sectors. The information technology revolution has changed the market structure and business dynamics. Today, supply chains are more visible and customer-centric. The consumer, especially in urban area, have multiple market access both online and offline. The Indian markets are now flourished with national and international brands. For many years, offline markets were used to serve consumers in India. The structure was traditional and price discrimination has been observed in almost all markets. The online platform is comparatively in the infant stage in India. At present, very few Indian companies are using the online platform in this Business. These people primarily aim to understand consumer perception of online grocery portals. It also attains to understand corporate strategies pertaining to supply chain & logistics and sales & promotion. The findings highlight strategies pertaining to supply chain reforms, social media marketing, and integrated marketing communication.