The Leadership Standard
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The Leadership Standard, hosted by TEC Canada speaker and branding expert Gair Maxwell, explores real-life stories from leaders across the business spectrum. It's an intimate discovery of how they shift between triumphs, struggles, failures, disruptions and future opportunities on a daily basis. Each episode is a revealing conversation about the life of business and the business of life; up..
The Leadership Standard
4M ago
Standing Up For Respect In Sport, School, and The Workplace ..read more
The Leadership Standard
5M ago
In this episode of The Leadership Standard podcast, host Gair Maxwell chats with guest Jill Van Gyn about launching Fatso in 2016 in the back of a health food restaurant in Victoria, BC.
Before this, Jill had graduated in 2005 with a political science degree specializing in genocide studies. Grappling with drug and alcohol addictions, Jill entered recovery in 2010, and in 2015, she completed her Master’s degree in Human Security & Peace Building with a drive to do humanitarian work. Before Fatso hit the scene, Jill describes herself as hitting rock bottom, being in a spiritual, professiona ..read more
The Leadership Standard
6M ago
Leading Mitochondrial Disease Advocacy and Research with Blaine Penny ..read more
The Leadership Standard
7M ago
This episode of The Leadership Standard podcast with host Gair Maxwell features an inspiring conversation with Toni Desrosiers—a Canadian entrepreneur who disrupted the billion-dollar plastic wrap industry by inventing the first reusable beeswax food wrap: Abeego.
Becoming the trailblazer of a global movement, Toni has been featured on Dragon’s Den (watch her pitch here!), won the 2018 TELUS Trailblazer Award, had Abeego named the Best Reusable Food Wrap by America’s Test Kitchen, named a Woman of Influence, and so much more.
Those 14 years ago, Toni Desrosiers was looking for a natu ..read more