Design Thinking Your Way to Business Success: Navigating the Unexpected

Invest Ottawa is dedicated to helping Ottawa entrepreneurs make informed decisions about starting and growing their businesses. We promote Ottawa's economy, through the development of products and services that encourage entrepreneurship and support business growth.Invest Ottawa has a staff of dedicated business professionals, who provide advice and counsel to entrepreneurs on a variety of levels. As well, we provide links to other business organizations, seminars and entrepreneurial events, online training and many other tools and resources to assist the budding entrepreneur.

Invest Ottawa Education Centre

Exploring how you can use design thinking to tackle unforeseen challenges in your business and turn roadblocks into opportunities.

Bayview Yards

Small Business Week

Welcome to Invest Ottawa's Small Business Week 2025, presented by TD.

Featuring expert panels, free hybrid workshops, and networking sessions, spread across five engaging events! [All paid ticketed events include food & drinks]

This is an Invest Ottawa event, presented by TD <h3>About this event:</h3>Join us during Small Business Week for an inspiring keynote entitled ‘Design Thinking Your Way to Business Success: Navigating the Unexpected’.Whether they’re doing it for their customers or their ventures, if there’s one thing that small business owners know, it’s the importance of solving problems. Finding problems can be relatively straightforward, but finding solutions? That can be a challenging task at the best of times. One sure fire way to increase your chances of success is by leveraging the power of ‘Design Thinking’, an evidence-based methodology that focuses solution-building around the pain points of our target audience.This event will explore how you can use design thinking to tackle unforeseen challenges in your business, adapt your plans and innovate your way to success. Whether you’re an entrepreneur just launching or seasoned business owner, this session is sure to provide valuable insights and practical tools to help you turn roadblocks into opportunities.Our keynote speaker:Sam Turgeon-Brabazon (STB Consulting Services) <h3>Expert panel discussion:</h3>Following the keynote, we will be holding an expert panel discussion with 4 Ottawa business founders, each speaking to their own business hurdles and industry-specific painpoints. The engaging exchange will look deeper into how each of these founders molded and pivoted in order to keep with changing times and obstacles.Our panelists:Naj Peterson (Founder, <a href="https://stompingground.ca/" title="https://stompingground.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Stomping Ground</a>)Erin Harris (Founder, <a href="https://www.soulspeakyoga.ca/" title="https://www.soulspeakyoga.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">SoulSpeak Studio</a>)Farid Dagher (Founder, <a href="https://www.cityatnight.ca/" title="https://www.cityatnight.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">City at Night</a> + <a href="https://www.cityatnight.ca/afterlight" title="https://www.cityatnight.ca/afterlight" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Afterlight</a>)Amanda Ruddy (Founder, <a href="https://www.amandajuliaevents.com/" title="https://www.amandajuliaevents.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Amanda Julia Events</a>)Our panel moderators:Sam Turgeon-Brabazon (STB Consulting Services) &amp; Igor Stipanac (<a href="https://www.investottawa.ca/" title="https://www.investottawa.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Invest Ottawa</a>) <h3>Additional event details:</h3>Tickets are free!Food &amp; drinks will be included.Networking portion at the end of our session.+ We will have $1,000+ worth of giveaways for our attendees!

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