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SUMMARY:Understanding Financial Statements
DESCRIPTION:This session will explain key financial statements — the balance sheet\, income statement\, and cash flow statement.\n\n\nThis session will explain key financial statements — the balance sheet\, income statement\, and cash flow statement — for non-finance professionals. \nKey Learnings & Takeaways: \n· The role of each financial statement in telling the business’s story \n· Key components and what they mean \n·How to use statements for decision-making and funding conversations \n· Common financial red flags to watch for \nWho Should Attend: Non-financial founders\, early-stage businesses. \nGuest Presenter: Adeola Ayoade \nAdeola Ayoade\, a seasoned finance professional with extensive experience in financial management\, strategic planning\, and regulatory compliance\, leads ARAA Solutions. Adeola brings over 14 years of diverse experience in finance roles\, having worked across multiple industries — including KPMG\, PwC\, technology\, and FMCG — spanning three continents. She is a CPA and holds an MSc in Finance from Swansea University\, as well as an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
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SUMMARY:Entrepreneur Essentials: Start-Up 101: Regulations\, Registering & Licenses
DESCRIPTION:Join the  VBEC team for a group session on all you need to know about regulations\, business licenses\, and steps to registering your business
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SUMMARY:Topic Next in Line: Building future leaders with Succession Planning
DESCRIPTION:Learn the essential elements of succession planning for your small business!\n\n\nEvery business will face a transition the only question is whether it will be planned or reactive. Join us on Tuesday June 17th at 12pm for this interactive webinar introducing the essential elements of succession planning and shows how early preparation gives owners more stability\, more options\, and more control over their future. \nOur conversation will focus on the realities of family?run businesses\, where ownership\, leadership\, and relationships often overlap in unique and meaningful ways. We’ll explore how these dynamics shape succession planning and what families can do to prepare for a smooth\, confident transition. At the same time\, the principles we cover apply to any business looking to strengthen continuity and long?term resilience. \nTopic Next in Line: Building future leaders with Succession Planning cuts through the overwhelm and provides a clear\, accessible roadmap for getting started. In just one hour\, you’ll explore the key areas every business should consider and walk away with practical\, actionable steps you can begin implementing right away. \n\n\nPresented by: Family Business Coach/Advisor – Megan Garland \nMegan Garland is a Family Coach and Advisor who supports family enterprises and small business owners as they navigate the complexities of succession\, governance\, and generational transition. She brings a deeply personal understanding of family business dynamics through her experience in a multigenerational enterprise\, where she serves as Chair of the Board and plays an active role in leadership continuity and long term planning. \nBefore establishing her coaching and advisory practice\, Megan spent more than two decades in long term care leadership. In that work\, she supported families through some of their most emotionally charged and transitional moments\, experiences that shaped her ability to guide people through change with clarity\, compassion\, and steadiness. Leading teams that cared for seniors and their families taught her how trust is built\, how conflict emerges\, and how communication can either strengthen or strain relationships. These insights now inform her approach to helping business owning families work through succession with confidence and respect. \nAs a Certified Executive Coach (ICF) and a Family Enterprise Advisor certified through Family Enterprise Canada\, Megan blends professional expertise with personal insight. She helps families strengthen communication\, align expectations\, and prepare the next generation for leadership in a way that honours both the business and the relationships at its core.
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SUMMARY:Marketing Your Business for Beginners and Solopreneurs
DESCRIPTION:Learn the quick and simple marketing hacks that can keep your business visible without sucking up all your time.\n\n\n30 Minutes or Less (a Week): A Roadmap to Marketing Your Business for Beginners and Solopreneurs \nDo you have time for marketing? Or is marketing the to-do that gets bumped\, pushed off\, or hidden away until you realize you’re not generating enough business? What if it only took 30 minutes a week? In this talk\, we’ll look at how to do just that\, sharing actionable to-dos you can complete on your own in as little as 30 minutes (or less) per week. You’ll leave with a marketing toolkit (e.g.\, resources and strategies) plus a four-week plan to get started that includes building (or improving) a website\, creating a Google Business Profile\, social media marketing\, and Google Ads. \n \nThe 4-Week Plan You’ll Leave With: \n\nBeginner Toolkit: marketing (and other) tools that will save you time and help you get started.\nWeek 1: Building (or improving) your website—how to create a website that works\, quickly.\nWeek 2: Google Business Profiles 101—why they’re important\, how they work\, and how to create yours.\nWeek 3: Social media marketing—what really works\, how to get started\, and how to keep going.\nWeek 4: Paid ads and measuring success—how to start a Google Ads campaign; how to measure the success of all you’ve done so far.\nQuestions\n\n \nThis workshop is facilited by Marco Muzzi of Wallace & Moody. As both a small business owner and a marketer\, Marco knows the challenges and the tricks of marketing businesses with limited time and resources. This brother and sister duo have been working with businessess across Ontario. Based in Owen Sound\, Marco is uniquely positioned to help rural small business with all their marketing needs.
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