About this event

During the pandemic, 31% of Canadians sought opportunities for additional income. What do you need to know when considering a side hustle? We are bringing together speakers who have a variety of side hustles to provide advice and tips on how to get started, followed by breakout room sessions where people can dive into a specific type of side hustle to learn more about it.

Panelists:

• Ashu Singh – Ashu’s full time role is Senior Director, Enterprise Process Mgmt at CIBC where her ~80 person team helps to improve and optimize business processes across the bank. Her side hustle is co-founder for Glatsy Inc, a mobile app solution that helps you save time and money while shopping for your latest fast fashion deals, across your favourite stores, in a single click.

• Samantha Chan – Samantha’s full-time role is Marketing & Sales Director at a Real Estate Investing Company called Elevate Realty, which she began as a side hustle. As a serial entrepreneur, she now writes children’s books that are geared towards helping parents teach Chinese to their kids.

• Jessica Frigon – Jessica’s full time role is Director of Operations at GroupSimple. On the side she is the CEO and founder of PROJECT LOVE, and helps ambitious entrepreneurs step into the visionary role while creating an easeful, flowy and sustainable business that they LOVE.

• Sema Burney – Sema recently transitioned her side hustle into her main hustle, and now leads Burney Consulting, a boutique-style consulting firm focused on diversity, inclusion & leadership development. Prior to this, she was a career coach for McGill’s MBA program.

Moderator: Justin Leung, Senior Consultant, Capacity Management & Optimization, CIBC

Members of community adversely impacted by COVID-19 may be eligible for complimentary tickets to the event. Please email: toronto.events@ascendleadership.ca