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2020 Hill | Levene Review FALL The Entrepreneurship Issue Building Community Capacity through Conscious Capitalism: Enactus Regina New Certificate in Entrepreneurship Launches this Fall Executive in Residence Programs Igniting the Entrepreneurial Spirit WEKH SK Hub Making an Impact With our new Certificate in Certificate in Ideation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, the Ideation, Creativity Hill School of Business and Entrepreneurship is committed to educating Saskatchewan entrepreneurs and growing our province’s economy. Start your entrepreneurial journey with us! 4 5 8 10 14 16 18 20 22 24 Learn more and apply: 26 hill.uregina.ca 27 10 TABLE of Photo Courtesy Photo of Sask Masks CONTENTS 4 Dean’s Message 5 RBC Woman Executive in Residence Program 8 Research That Matters: Dr. Peter Moroz Building Community Capacity through Conscious Capitalism: 10 Enactus Regina 14 Alumni Making Their Mark 16 Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub 18 Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan Report Rawlinson Executive in Residence in Indigenous 20 Entrepreneurship Program CREDITS 22 Entrepreneurship Certificate Co-editors: Lynn Barber & Kelly-Ann McLeod Original Design & Layout: 24 Research Excellence Benchmark Public Relations Inc. Publisher: Hill | Levene Schools of Business 26 Donor Recognition Production: University of Regina ISSN 2371-0039 (Print) 27 Hill and Levene Schools at a Glance ISSN 2371-0047 (Online) is critical to giving students the tools students, staff and faculty are top and confidence to be successful of mind and continue to be our and follow their entrepreneurial priority. No doubt this year will dreams. Coupled with these two be challenging. Yet, I believe we extra-curricular programs this can use this time to tap into our issue also introduces our new entrepreneurial spirit to pivot, Certificate in Ideation, Creativity experiment and innovate. and Entrepreneurship (ICE). It offers students formal, in class learning I want to thank all of our faculty, and a credential to add to their staff and students for their degree, whether that is in business commitment to excellence, or another area. especially in this difficult time. I would also like to thank our three I am inspired by the work of the Associate Deans, Dr. Morina Rennie, student-led Enactus Regina group Associate Dean of Undergraduate who embody the entrepreneurial Programs, Dr. Lisa Watson, Associate spirit and are making an impact Dean of Research & Graduate e have revamped our through conscious capitalism. Read Programs, and Dr. Saqib Khan, annual publication with on to find out more about their Associate Dean of Faculty Relations & Wa new name and fresh exciting projects. You will also meet Development, for all they do to look. Moving forward the revamped a few Hill and Levene alumni who create opportunities for our students Hill | Levene Review will also focus have followed their entrepreneurial and faculty. on a theme, highlighting the impact passions. In this issue we also share our business schools are having in with you news about the Hill and There are many exciting a particular area in our community, Levene Schools’ work with WESK, developments on the horizon at the province and beyond. We’re kicking it the work being done through Hill and Levene Schools including off with a focus on entrepreneurship. the new Saskatchewan Hub of the development of an Executive in Entrepreneurship is the back-bone the Women Entrepreneurship Residence in Agribusiness program of Saskatchewan’s economy with Knowledge Hub (WEKH), and and progress on our accreditation small businesses accounting for over Dr. Peter Moroz’s research in the with AACSB. Finally, I continue to be 98.9% of the business enterprises area of entrepreneurship. We take optimistic about the possibility of in the province, and we do our you full circle showing how the a new business building in the not part to inspire, support and grow learning and research taking place so distance future. Make sure you entrepreneurship. in and out of the classroom has a real stay tuned for more updates in the impact creating tangible outcomes coming months. This issue shares the work being and viable businesses. done by the RBC Woman Executive Be well and be safe. in Residence and the Rawlinson I would be remiss not to Gina Grandy, PhD Executive in Residence in Indigenous acknowledge how we all continue to Dean, Hill and Levene Schools Entrepreneurship, highlighting how navigate the challenges presented mentorship through these programs by COVID-19. The well-being of DEAN’S MESSAGE Dr. Lisa Watson, Associate Dean, Dr. Saqib Khan, Associate Dean, Dr. Morina Rennie, Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Programs Faculty Relations & Development Undergraduate Programs RBC WOMAN EXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM Empowering Students THrough Entrepreneurship Val Sluth, RBC Woman Executive in Residence “If we can help fuel one, two, RBC executives, and students success. Key topics included: three or more businesses that attended the reception. Sluth felt ideation, environmental scanning, would be great,” said Val Sluth, Hill that bringing together a diverse organizational processes, and and Levene’s RBC Woman Executive group of successful women was an financial planning. in Residence. “If we can essentially ideal way to ignite excitement and inspire a handful of women to expose students to their potential Hill student Jana Ham, who advance their careers in business, futures. Programming that followed attended the boot camp and several then we are really contributing to the reception included sessions on workshops that followed, said the the local economy. If you look at marketing, access to capital, and an experiences have served her well successful women in Regina and entrepreneurial boot camp. on her own entrepreneurial journey. area, they have created jobs for “A huge part of it other women and are making is learning from an economic impact.” other women If you look at successful entrepreneurs Sluth was named to the position and seeing their women in Regina and area, two years ago and has her own “ success. It makes track record of success as the they have created jobs for it much easier to owner of a strategic consulting other women and are making envision yourself as firm in the city. She has been an entrepreneur or recognized with a YWCA Women an economic impact. business leader,” she of Distinction Award and is a past said. Val Sluth ” chair of the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce. These workshops also led to new She launched the program with The entrepreneurial boot camp networking opportunities where a reception at Hillberg & Berk, featured a series of workshops Ham was able to discuss ideas which is owned by entrepreneur, focused on equipping prospective with business mentors. Ham’s and Hill alumna Rachel Mielke. A and current student women entrepreneurial efforts led her to number of women entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs with tools for business be recognized as a HSBC Women’s Fall 2020 • Hill | Levene Review | 5 Entrepreneurial Leadership Award Sluth said that entrepreneurship seeing their eyes light up and their recipient at Enactus Nationals this provides students the opportunity passions ignite when they realize past May. to take a subject that they are they have a solid business concept. interested in, and turn it into a career “Entrepreneurship has really become choice. In order to set up a successful “Whether or not you plan to start a passion of mine,” she said. “I’m part business, Sluth said students need a business, students can apply the of a fintech (financial technology) confidence in their abilities and this philosophy of entrepreneurship and startup that’s building an app to program will help students develop find ways to integrate it into their use with the financial institution that confidence. careers. “ industry.” Sluth is also a As the workshops gained in strong believer that popularity, Sluth noted that entrepreneurship university students outside of the is not limited to business schools were attracted owing a business. One of her future priorities is supporting Indigenous and New Canadian women entrepreneurs. She said that many New Canadians originate from families of entrepreneurs so they have a strong basis for creating and building their own businesses. It also empowers these The RBC Woman Executive in Residence entrepreneurial boot camp featured a series of workshops focused on women to take control equipping prospective and current women entrepreneurs with tools for business success. of their lives. “They may be marginalized to the program. “If you think about Sluth said that women can be because of their language or face engineering, for example, many of entrepreneurial within existing other challenges that come from the women in engineering will likely organizations and that they can being a New Canadian so starting a end up starting their own businesses. create their own sense of ownership business is one way to take control That’s also true for those in the math as they progress through their and create your own destiny,” said program, or in kinesiology, or in arts. careers. What we really want to do is provide Sluth. “To me, entrepreneurship is the this opportunity to any student who One of the most rewarding parts most existential journey that you can is interested in owning their own so far for Sluth has been the look on take as a career. Everything is based business to be able to have that students’ faces when they realize on your own choices.” support to gather information and that they have the potential to advice,” she said. become entrepreneurs. She enjoys 6 | Hill | Levene Review • Fall 2020 has a strong entrepreneurial up their own businesses. This means Other culture. Approximately 75% of setting up their own storefronts, those surveyed indicated that hiring staff, marketing the business, Supported entrepreneurship was desirable, and becoming established. Street Initiatives respected and talked about in the said that an easier path is to take province.