Entrepreneur Talks: Networking through Narrative

Join us for a dynamic networking event designed to foster meaningful connections and inspire conversations through the power of storytelling. This event series will feature a spotlight storyteller sharing a personal or professional story that offers key lessons and insights for entrepreneurs; followed by roundtable discussions related to the event’s theme. We will conclude with open networking and additional refreshments, providing further opportunities to connect and reflect on the conversations and stories shared. "Entrepreneur Talks: Networking Through Narrative" is an engaging and enriching experience, blending storytelling with professional networking to spark new ideas and relationships. This event is for you if you're an Entrepreneur, a Business Professional, an Entrepreneur Service Provider or an aspiring Entrepreneur interested in the power of narrative. About the Spotlight Storyteller Jill Drader is the founder of Steel Toe Stiletto, and a professional leadership and construction educator with over 20 years of experience in post-secondary facilitation, entrepreneurship, and consulting to the non-profit and the construction industry. She has demonstrated success in entrepreneurship and leadership through creating award winning projects and taking them to market and is an adaptive thinker and innovator. As a journeyman by trade, she formed Steel Toe Stiletto in 2009, when she found a need to leverage focus and attention to women in the trades. Her organization solved the problem of attracting more women into the trades with the project, Women in Work Boots, an online community dedicated to women’s networking in skilled trades and construction and advocating for more women to explore entrepreneurial opportunities in the trades industry. In 2014, she was awarded the Top 40 Under 40 designation as a result of advocacy work for women in the trades and recovery. During this time, she developed the Entrepreneurial Trades program for Junior Achievement in conjunction with the Calgary Board of Education and has continued advocacy work through public speaking and engagement events.