Access to influential networks within the entrepreneurship ecosystem Dr. Golnaz Golnaraghi Founder, Accelerate Her Future
Dr.Golnaz Golnaraghi is an award-winning Leadership and Equity and Inclusion expert, social entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and author. She is the Founder of Accelerate Her future, one of the leading career accelerators in Canada dedicated to advancing Black, Indigenous, and self-identifying women of color pursuing early careers in business and tech. She holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business and a Doctor of Business Administration from Athabasca University. Her areas of research interest include racialized and intersectional identities in the workplace, women of color in leadership, Muslim women’s identity construction in North America, transformative learning, among others. Golnaz has presented her research at international conferences and published in peer-review journals and books including the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal and The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations. Her commentary has been featured in CTV News, Liisbeth Media, and Women of Influence. Golnaz was recently recognized as a top 50 Reporton Business 2021 Changemakers.
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What are your thoughts on using a business growth platform to help take your business forward? I think that entrepreneurs should use business growth platforms for a number of reasons: access, a
methodology, and an approach that
has been kind of perfected based on years of experience are just some of them.
Business growth platforms like Imaginal Ventures and the work they do is
needed, particularly in our case, as we
are seeing growth, we don't necessarily always have the experience or
expertise around all the different elements within a conscious
business/social impact business that
we need to be mindful of as we scale to deepen our impact and growth.
