Joanna Buczkowska-McCumber
I am a leader and strategist driven to explore and build new ways to enhance business to create social change. Executive Director at League of Innovators mobilizing the next generation of leaders from discovery to acceleration and founder of Ideas for Impact - a Social Purpose Agency. Through my work, I have been at the forefront of youth and social entrepreneurship, and believe we can create enterprises that are not only profitable but create social and environmental value in our communities through their activities and their brands.
I am a public speaker, facilitator, and lecturer focusing on the intersection of entrepreneurship, impact, youth, and future of work. I was the founding Managing Director of the Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing, co-creator of the award-winning Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub previously steered the ship at The Next Big Thing, Canada's only fully inclusive youth entrepreneurial program. You can find me lecturing about entrepreneurship and innovation at Simon Fraser Beedie School of Business and at Emily Carr University; mentor youth-led startups such as SmartSweets, Blume, WizeMonkey, GrantMe; and driving conversation around policy change as a Better Canada Fellow. You can sense a theme here - its about building change-making ideas from concept to reality, to big impact.
Let me help you build your idea into something that shakes the world!
I am a leader and strategist driven to explore and build new ways to enhance business to create social change. Executive Director at League of Innovators mobilizing the next generation of leaders from discovery to acceleration and founder of Ideas for Impact - a Social Purpose Agency. Through my work, I have been at the forefront of youth and social entrepreneurship, and believe we can create enterprises that are not only profitable but create social and environmental value in our communities through their activities and their brands.
I am a public speaker, facilitator, and lecturer focusing on the intersection of entrepreneurship, impact, youth, and future of work. I was the founding Managing Director of the Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing, co-creator of the award-winning Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub previously steered the ship at The Next Big Thing, Canada's only fully inclusive youth entrepreneurial program. You can find me lecturing about entrepreneurship and innovation at Simon Fraser Beedie School of Business and at Emily Carr University; mentor youth-led startups such as SmartSweets, Blume, WizeMonkey, GrantMe; and driving conversation around policy change as a Better Canada Fellow. You can sense a theme here - its about building change-making ideas from concept to reality, to big impact.
Let me help you build your idea into something that shakes the world!
