Image: eWomenNetwork Heather Sharpe
An events manager and marketer with decades of experience will head up the new Okanagan chapter of The eWomenNetwork.
Heather Sharpe, who recently arrived in the Okanagan from Vancouver, has been tapped as the managing director of the new women’s networking group.
According to Sharpe, the Okanagan eWomenNetwork chapter will “focus on the needs of businesswomen” in the area, by giving them more meaningful and purpose-driven ways to connect and network.
Sharpe says she expects membership to be wide-ranging.
“The group is for everybody from the independent small business women working out of her home, to somebody that’s in a more corporate environment that just wants to connect with the community,” she said.
“It’s going to be a very powerful group of women.”
Along with larger events aimed at educating local businesswomen, Sharpe says the network also hold smaller events, of only about a dozen people, where women can talk in more detail about their business needs.
“This is a format where you get really valuable connections with people, with intention, as opposed to just showing up at a cocktail party and hoping to meet someone. This is a little bit more structured,” she said.
“It’s not networking by chance, it’s networking by choice.”
Founded in 2000 and sponsored worldwide by Microsoft, American Express OPENSM, UPS and Dell, eWomenNetwork is one of the most-visited women’s business websites, and the producer of the largest four-day women’s business conference in North America.
The organization’s mission is to “help one million women entrepreneurs each achieve one million dollars in annual revenue.”
To find out more, check out the organization online. For more on upcoming events in the Okanagan, email [email protected].
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