Elsa A. Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Driving high value partnerships and sales through innovative customer engagement and bespoke programs. Most importantly, driving new business opportunities and positioning Staples Studio as a market leader in hybrid and remote coworking solutions across four locations in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Driving business development, managing day-to-day operations, and spearheading community engagement initiatives at the Staples Studio Corktown site. Offered impactful training and mentorship, actively participating in team onboarding, and facilitating skill development across various locations. Played a pivotal role in strategic initiatives to expand.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Assisted the "Special Topics" course "Building Businesses for Sustainability" with Prof. Richard Blundell as an elective course for MBA students. The course is from the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management department. Also developed industry relationships to invite guest lecturers to class.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• CDL is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, deep tech & science-based ventures. Built customer acquisition strategies for startups:
• Ai-powered wearable technology, (Iteratelabs.co);
• blockchain-enabled manager for real estate transactions (Arex.technology).
• Leader in quantum light pioneering record levels of speed and security through a patented tech (AegiQ.com).

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• The GBC governs a student body of 1200+ students from 6 Master's programs. The VP role consists in representing students' social interests through events to drive long term engagement in collaboration with Office of.
• Onboarded Events Team of 3 Portfolio managers and 4 section reps and came up together with a 2020-2021 purpose and mandate.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Created and managed communications and social media channels such as the Medium Blog and the newsletter. Convened, and managed stakeholder relationships. Led the planning. marketing, and execution of the annual conference for impact investors and philanthropists.SVX is a spin-off from MArS and the leading Canadian impact investing platform for ventures.

Middle East North Africa (MENA)

• Coached 80+ social & environmental entrepreneurs at ideation & proof of concept stages. Managed mentorship programs for top 25 entrepreneurs, in 3 bootcamps incl. collaboration with French Embassy. Mentored on brand.
• Designed and produced first-ever online course on social entrepreneurship available in Arabic & English. Engaged 20 contributing experts and film crew to create and launch course under 5 months for 550+ students..
• Recruited team & designed succession plan

Full-timer Seat

• 4 of 17 seats were reserved for employees in an open governance model bringing together founders, employees, and community members to represent all stakeholders' interests.
• Made decisions on challenging and controversial topics: sustainability of offices, diversity and inclusion in racism-exposed jobs, brand/ reputation affiliation with partnerships, etc.

Middle East North Africa (MENA)

• Managed partner relationships for operations & fundraising. Raised CAD 480 K for operations and another CAD 450 K for succession planning.
• Established 60+ strategic partnerships with stakeholders at all levels including embassies, institutional partners, international and local NGOs, and expert leaders across industries.
• Set up & oversaw community offices in 17 cities across MENA; field work in Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, and Algeria.
• Developed knowledge base of community-building expertise for capacity-building. Trained 230+ individuals.

Lebanon

• Created a community of social business advocates and social entrepreneurs from scratch
• Engaged 4,500 people with 150 volunteers at the center leading Makesense activities
• Organized and oversaw 200+ events: focus groups, design-thinking workshops, panels, & conferences

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Innovation And Change Management

Activities and Societies: • Forté Fellow • VP Events at the Graduate Business Council • MBA Ambassador • Women in Management Association.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Activities and Societies: AIESEC, AUB Online Collaborative, Fashion Club

International Exchange Program, Entertainment Marketing & Theatre Improvisation

Education record

Activities and Societies: French Valedictorian at High-School Graduation