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Take Your Business to a Higher Level by Empowering Others
 

International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.

Join the TriCities Chamber of Commerce, Barbara Stegemann, W. Brett Wilson, Senator Yonah Martin and other notable guests in bringing recognition of International Women's Day to the lower mainland with this unique, first-of-its kind local event!

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

BARBARA STEGEMANN
Top Game Changer CBC's Dragon Den
CEO and Founder, The 7 Virtues

Barbara Stegemann?s entrepreneurial vision was formed after her best friend?a soldier?was severely wounded in Afghanistan. Understanding that supporting Afghanistan?s economy was a key to building stability for its people, Stegemann created The 7 Virtues Beauty?a company that sources organic oils from countries experiencing turmoil (such as Afghanistan, Haiti and the Middle East) to encourage change and to reverse the effects of war and poverty. Despite addressing complex global matters in her talks, she uses humour to explain how individuals can effect change both at home and worlds away.

Stegemann became known to millions when she landed a venture-capital deal on the CBC TV show Dragons? Den for The 7 Virtues Beauty. She went on to become the ?Top Game Changer? in the show?s history.

Since then, Stegemann was named one of the ?Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada?; she won the Ernst & Young ?Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the emerging Entrepreneur category for Atlantic Canada? (2012); she was ranked as one of Profit Guide magazine?s ?Top 30 Cool and Fabulous Canadian Entrepreneurs? (2012); her fragrance collection won Chatelaine?s ?Beauty 100 Award? (2012); she received the ?Women Innovators Award? from the US State Department at the APEC Women and the Economy Summit; and she  was also made the first female Honorary Colonel for 14 Wing Greenwood base, Royal Canadian Air Force.

Stegemann has opened as keynote speaker for Erin Brockovich; emceed for Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Danny Williams; and is often invited to moderate panels and attend events as a delegate with world leaders such as Bill Clinton.

A newsmaker, Stegemann has been featured in major media around the world including in the The Wall Street Journal Magazine, The London Sunday Times, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Tattler, and on CBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and more.

Stegemann is the author of the bestselling book, The 7 Virtues of a Philosopher Queen.

WITH SPECIAL GUEST

W.BRETT WILSON
Dragon Emeritus

INTRODUCTION BY 
SENATOR YONAH MARTIN
First Korean-Canadian Senator of Canada