Business Ownership
How to Start a Business: A Step-by-Step Guide
Starting a business can be incredibly exciting, and also incredibly daunting. There are so many things to consider, steps to follow, and it all rests on your shoulders. That’s a lot of pressure for new entrepreneurs or even seasoned pros. Thankfully, enough business...
13 Tips for Starting and Managing a Small Business
Managing a small business is not easy. Without the resources that large corporations have come to rely on to make business run smoothly (think HR departments, finance, legal, etc.), it can be difficult to learn how to start and manage a small business. Between...
10 Meaningful Sustainable Business Practices
What does it mean to be a sustainable business? And how can you easily adopt sustainable business practices into your day-to-day operations? Read on for 10 meaningful ways you can adopt environmentally friendly and sustainable practices for your business. It’s easy to...
Bold(h)er: Diversity, Inclusion & Equality
Sometimes the non-traditional path can get you where you need to go in life. That was the case for Shavonne Hasfal-McIntosh. Early on, Shavonne challenged family expectations and dropped out of university and college only to go back later in life to complete her HR...
BMO for Women Partners with Women and Gender Equality Canada
BMO for Women partnered with Women and Gender Equality Canada to produce webinars specifically for not-for-profit organizations that support women. Three key topics were identified as critical to these organizations: Financial Health, Strategic Planning and...
Building & maintaining a relationship with your banker
As a business owner, your Relationship Manager is one of the most valuable people to have on your team of trusted advisors. Open communication and a collaborative approach are key to ensuring you get the best advice to help build, and continue to grow, your business....
Building & maintaining a relationship with your banker
As a business owner, your Relationship Manager is one of the most valuable people to have on your team of trusted advisors. Open communication and a collaborative approach are key to ensuring you get the best advice to help build, and continue to grow, your business....
Women Entrepreneurs: Risk Aware and Innovative
Janice McDonald and Clare Beckton, co-authors of the 2016 report entitled A Force to Reckon With: Women Entrepreneurs and Risk, and the 2018 report entitled Everywhere, Every Day Innovating: Women Entrepreneurs and Innovation discuss how they became passionate about...
Bold & Black: Cheryl Sutherland
Name: Cheryl Sutherland Business: PleaseNotes Goods Industry Personal Growth/ Retail Tanya: Question numero uno, what was your path to entrepreneurship? Cheryl: My path to entrepreneurship pretty much started when I moved to California because I wanted to...
How to Grow Your Business
Scaling a business is no easy feat. But with the right mindset, management and method, it’s something all entrepreneurs can accomplish. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution for growing a business, there are things that any business owner can do to help their...
10 Meaningful Sustainable Business Practices
What does it mean to be a sustainable business? And how can you easily adopt sustainable business practices into your day-to-day operations? Read on for 10 meaningful ways you can adopt environmentally friendly and sustainable practices for your business. It’s easy to...
Bold(h)er: Beauty and Reconciliation
Cheekbone Beauty has its roots in a dream founder and CEO Jenn Harper had of little girls in lipgloss. In this episode, Jenn chats with Lisa about how she turned that dream into a successful, Indigenous-owned cosmetics company that gives back to its community, the...
Bold(h)er: How a Pandemic Changes Employee Engagement (And What Stays the Same)
Employers and employees alike have a unique opportunity in the COVID era: to take stock of what they’re doing and decide if it’s right for them. This episode of a special Bold(h)er series on women leading innovation in the face of the coronavirus features recruitment...
BMO for Women Partners with Women and Gender Equality Canada
BMO for Women partnered with Women and Gender Equality Canada to produce webinars specifically for not-for-profit organizations that support women. Three key topics were identified as critical to these organizations: Financial Health, Strategic Planning and...
Designing the Workplace of the Future: How Human-Centric Design Increases Productivity
When workplace design is human-centric, employees are happier, and companies often experience increases in attraction, retention, and productivity. Lynn Roger, the Global Head of Employee Experience and Workplace Transformation at BMO Financial Group, is passionate...
On Pitching, Resilience, and Gender Differences
In this episode, Kathleen Burns-Kingsbury speaks with Dr. Amy D’Aprix, authority on lifestyle issues, and a variety of topics on wealth and living your best life, and Whitney Rockley, co-founder and Managing Director of McRock Capital about how to not only how to...
Bold & Black: Kimberlee West
Name: Kimberlee West Business: Kids Swag Industry: Retail/Children’s Goods Tanya: Let's get right to business: what was your path/journey to entrepreneurship? Kimberlee: Oh, that's a good question. I don't think people have asked me that. I would say that the...
Bold & Black: Marina Phillips
Name: Marina Phillips Business: Bébé Station™️/Station Bébé™️ Industry: Parental Services/Health & Wellness Tanya: Ok Miss Marina Phillips - tell me about your path to entrepreneurship. Marina: Gosh, you came out the gates hard. Path to entrepreneurship? I...
Bold & Black: Vivian Kaye
Name: Vivian Kaye Business: KinkyCurlyYaki Industry: Hair/Beauty Tanya: Because your time is money, let’s get going. So, what was your journey to entrepreneurship? Vivian: Well, it wasn’t a straight one that’s for sure. I wasn’t surrounded by entrepreneurs. But...
The Best Business Leadership Books
The success of a business, no matter the size, often depends on its leadership. Being in charge of a team can certainly be daunting at times. Even some of the greatest leaders look for a roadmap and turn to the world’s best business leadership books to guide them. For...
13 Tips for Starting and Managing a Small Business
Managing a small business is not easy. Without the resources that large corporations have come to rely on to make business run smoothly (think HR departments, finance, legal, etc.), it can be difficult to learn how to start and manage a small business. Between...
Bold(h)er: Beauty and Reconciliation
Cheekbone Beauty has its roots in a dream founder and CEO Jenn Harper had of little girls in lipgloss. In this episode, Jenn chats with Lisa about how she turned that dream into a successful, Indigenous-owned cosmetics company that gives back to its community, the...
Managing Your Business Finances through COVID-19
This webinar focuses on cash management strategies to help women business owners during this crisis and through to the other side. Subject matter experts from BMO, Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), Export Development Canada (EDC) and GroYourBiz walk...
Bold(h)er: How a Pandemic Changes Employee Engagement (And What Stays the Same)
Employers and employees alike have a unique opportunity in the COVID era: to take stock of what they’re doing and decide if it’s right for them. This episode of a special Bold(h)er series on women leading innovation in the face of the coronavirus features recruitment...
Bold(h)er: Opportunity from Disruption
Your career is a long game. There are lessons, pivots, losses, wins and maybe some gaps. In this episode of Bold(h)er, BMO’s Chief Human Resources Officer and Head of People & Culture Mona Malone and Dr. Talia Varley of The Cleveland Clinic join Lisa Bragg to talk...
BMO Hosts Women Business Owners for Resilience Retreat
Paulette Jagers, Chief Inclusion Officer, and Sheri Griffiths, Regional President, Business Banking, recently hosted women entrepreneurs at the BMO IFL for a retreat focused on developing the skills and strategies needed to grow resilience in business and life. The...
Succession planning is key for small business owners
Nearly two in five business owners are wondering who will take over their business and how they will transition it to a successor. However, the majority of them do not have a formal plan to exit their business or preserve the continuity of the business upon...
Receiving an unsolicited offer to sell your business
Many successful business owners have had the experience of receiving an unsolicited phone call from someone offering to buy their business. On occasion, these unsolicited calls lead to a successful transaction, but more often than not the discussions go sideways for a...
Management Succession Planning
When we speak of “business succession planning” for private companies, some people think only of tax and estate planning, while others may only consider a transition in the share ownership of a business. While those are each important elements of succession planning,...
The Psychology Around Debt
Debt. Is it good or bad? Either way it is a fact of life. Every generation has had an impact on the next generations thoughts and beliefs around debt. Julie Sehl, Vice President of Financial Planning shares how you can use debt to advance your future and what you must...
Proactive Human Resources Strategies
Human Resources is commonly becoming accepted as a strategic business partner, worthy of a seat at the highest levels of leadership within many organizations. With the advent of social networking, and new digital technologies, human resources specialists are now...
Designing the Workplace of the Future: How Human-Centric Design Increases Productivity
When workplace design is human-centric, employees are happier, and companies often experience increases in attraction, retention, and productivity. Lynn Roger, the Global Head of Employee Experience and Workplace Transformation at BMO Financial Group, is passionate...
Five must-dos for entrepreneurs
Ready to launch your own startups? Make sure you know these five must-dos for entrepreneurs. Read more
Creating a Business Plan
What does a business plan look like? Here's how to write your plan and the key components to include. Read more
How to import goods into Canada and grow your business
It goes without saying that exporting your goods or services to another country or importing goods into Canada are great ways to grow your business. But with any great opportunity there are risks. So before you start to do business across borders, there are a...
Five common small business mistakes to avoid
It might seem like Arjun Kumar, winner of the BMO-sponsored AIR MILES®† For Business Small Business Achievement Award, has it all figured out when it comes to running a small business. But he didn’t get here without facing some adversity. Kumar, CEO at KAI...
Knowing your numbers matters
The more knowledgeable you are about where your business stands financially today, the more productive your conversations will be when you meet with your trusted advisors.