Stu Clark Webinar: Business with Purpose

How can business truly be a force for good?

Join us for a live conversation with Dan Overall, Executive Director of the Trico Charitable Foundation - one of Canada’s leading champions of social entrepreneurship.

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Trico Foundation helps close gaps in society by supporting innovative ventures that blend profit and purpose. In this interactive Ask Me Anything, Dan will share insights from over a decade of advancing social enterprise across Canada, from funding and ecosystem building, to rethinking how we define success in business.

What to Expect:

• Straight talk on what it takes to build a viable social enterprise
• Stories from Trico’s national initiatives and award-winning ventures
• Candid Q&A: bring your toughest questions!

Who Should Attend:

• Students skeptical that business/capitalism can be a force for good
• Students skeptical that business/capitalism should be a force for good
• Aspiring social entrepreneurs and changemakers
• Nonprofit or startup founders exploring revenue-generating models
• Business students interested in impact-driven ventures

About Daniel Overall

Dan Overall is the Executive Director of the Trico Charitable Foundation, which seeks to leverage social entrepreneurship to reimagine how we can use the power of business models to close gaps in society. Some of Dan’s highlights over his 13 years with Trico include hosting the Social Enterprise World Forum in 2013 (A first for Canada with over 1,000 attendees from over 30 countries and over 100 speakers); organizing national and local social enterprise awards; overseeing Trico’s funding of key social enterprise infrastructure projects like the Changemakers Studio at Mount Royal University and the Social Entrepreneurship Centre at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary; and publishing numerous case studies, articles, blogs, and a curriculum on social entrepreneurship.     

Prior to that Dan served as Director of Policy and Communications for the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce (MCC). In that capacity he was an early adopter of corporate social responsibility and shared value; oversaw the MCC’s focus on “where community values meets entrepreneurial spirit”; and oversaw the MCC’s participation in the anti-poverty campaigns ‘Raise the Rates’ and ‘Make Poverty History.’