• Webinar Wednesday : The Stories We Inherit, The Businesses We Build: Understanding Strategy in a World Full of Noise 

    Session 1: The Stories We Inherit, The Businesses We Build: Understanding Strategy in a World Full of Noise  This session introduces participants to the foundations of strategic thinking and explores why many entrepreneurs mistake activity for strategy. Through the lens of queer entrepreneurship, participants will examine how societal expectations, business myths, and inherited ideas about […]

  • Rainbow Registered August Info Session

    Creating spaces where 2SLGBTQI+ people feel genuinely welcomed, respected, and safe takes more than good intentions. Rainbow Registered offers a clear, credible way to turn commitment into action. This information […]

  • Webinar Wednesday: Scaling Through B2B Collaboration

    Certification and membership open doors to contracts most members are structurally too small to bid alone. The gap is rarely ambition or capability. It is capacity, and the fastest way to manufacture capacity is partnership. In one hour, Aaron Cruikshank walks through how supplier partnerships actually work: subcontracting, teaming agreements and joint ventures compared on […]

  • CQCC X TELUS Supplier Diversity Day

    Join us for a dynamic morning of candid conversation, shared learning, and practical connection-building at the CQCC x TELUS Supplier Diversity Day. This event brings together corporate leaders and diverse suppliers, thoughtfully matched by sector, goals, and logistics, to foster meaningful engagement and unlock new procurement opportunities. Together, we will explore how to strengthen pathways […]

  • Business Connect MTL (CQCC x TD)

    Join us for an intimate and highly curated leadership forum designed to foster meaningful engagement between TD leaders and CQCC’s most established entrepreneurs and diverse suppliers. Business Connect MTL blends thought leadership, strategic dialogue, and facilitated networking to create high-value business development opportunities, while advancing inclusive procurement and long-term partnership pathways. Through facilitated discussions and […]

  • FAM Workshop: Building Joint Agreements and Collaborative Pitches

    Most suppliers hit a ceiling where the next contract is bigger than they can deliver alone. Partnership is how you get past it, and this is a hands-on hour spent doing exactly that. Everyone starts from the same anonymized real opportunity, so a solopreneur and a fifteen-person firm are on common ground from minute one. […]