Amanda Bernard Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• The Laidlaw Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation with $70M+ in assets.
• Managed the development and implementation of the Indigenous Youth and Community Futures Fund, ensuring alignment with the Foundation’s strategic goals and community needs.
• Served as primary contact for the fund and communicated daily with Indigenous grantees through email, conference calls, and meetings.
• Provided mentorship and guidance to youth committee members and grantees, fostering leadership skills and ensuring their active participating in decision-making processes.
• Responsible for conducting monitoring tasks such as check-in calls and conducting webinars and other forms of convening activities.

• Shawish Market is an Indigenize custom built platform, similar to Etsy, that empowers Indigenous entrepreneurs by eliminating vendor fees. This initiative is part of a mission to remove economic barriers and foster.
• The platform currently hosts over 160 vendors and features over 700 products, with a growing social media presence of 13,000 + Instagram followers.
• Named MIT 2023 Solve Fellow and featured in APTN, AUTM, Tribal Business News, Say Magazine, and more.
• www.shawishmarket.com - @shawish.market

• A nail serum designed to help people stop biting their nails. The product strengthens nails, nourishes cuticles and tastes bitter. No other nail serum contain all three features.
• Built a social media presence for a cosmetic brand on Instagram andFacebook.
• Analyses and reports audience information and demographics, andsuccess of existing social media projects.@bittergoldnails

Toronto, Canada Area

• Handled day to day management of clients' strategic, creative and development projects.
• Managed a team of 4, delegating tasks, providing mentorship, and ensuring team collaboration to meet project deadlines and client expectations.
• Communicated daily with clients through email, conference calls, and meetings, gathering feedback and ensuring that amendments were implemented.
• Consistently met or exceeded customer service rating each year.
• Collaborated with project management to facilitate project team meetings, manage agendas and assist in developing the Release Management Concept using the agile methodology.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Productively acknowledge, greet and assist customers in the store, build many relationships with returning customers.
• Serve multiple customers, discover their needs and make appropriate recommendations to generate sales.
• In charge of closing and opening the store. Handled cash and credit card transaction.
• Organized floor displays to maximize space and call attention to latest merchandise.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Develop or assist in the development of apparel; and getting these products to the store
• Conducted market research; reviewed product requirements; helped determining specifications, production timetables, pricing, and time-integrated plans for product introduction
• Provide accurate, valid and complete information by using the right methods/tools

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Tasks included but were not limited to day to day financial and business operations, including filing, invoicing, contracts, data entry, research and other business related tasks.
• Learned how to use software systems such as Accpac and Sage CRM.
• Responsible for keeping current clients satisfied and delivering exceptional client service on a day-to-day basis.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General

Fashion Management, 3.60

Activities and Societies: - Developed a website for a school event called Trends - Successfully ran a store for 4 months as the Visual.