In this episode of The Inflection Point, I dive into an amazing conversation with Gabrielle Foss. Throughout her life and career, Gabi has felt most alive around people that are curious, adventurous, entrepreneurial, and empathetic. In 2019 she was selected to join The Cansbridge Fellowship, a community of young leaders with exactly these qualities, and is now fortunate to be spending her time growing the organization as its current Executive Director.
Gabi studied Health and Business at Western and Ivey, where she was far more interested in topics like sustainability and psychological safety than finance. Immediately after graduating, she completed her Cansbridge summer in the forests of Laos as a Sustainability Intern at a timber plantation. She then dove into the Canadian startup scene at the Upside Foundation, and worked in corporate Sustainability and Reconciliation consulting at Deloitte and an Indigenous-owned strategy firm.
She is so excited to live in the Cansbridge world full time, and consider questions like “what is the secret sauce” to organizational stickiness, how do we decentralize community engagement, and how do we nurture a shared mindset in all our programming. In her spare time, she does scary outdoor activities in the Pacific Northwest, and sings loudly with her friends. Alaska by Kaya Nite is her favorite song and tops her charts right now.
We hope you enjoyed today's episode of The Inflection Point! There are a lot of exciting episodes coming up as I dive into deep conversations around starting a company from an entrepreneur's point of view and the ups and downs that come along with it in the process. You can check us out on LinkedIn @ The Inflection Point. Please leave us a comment with your thoughts and you can send your questions to theinflectionpointwithshaann@gmail.com so that I can ask those questions to our guests and spark insightful conversations around entrepreneurship. You can also follow us on Instagram @theinflectionpointwithshaan and if you leave today with one message, I hope it is this - “Change is inevitable. Embrace it if you can”. See you all next week!
