Webinar: Fireside Chat with Karla Briones, Steve Cody & Sueling Ching

Fireside Chat with Karla Briones, Steve Cody & Sueling Ching

All businesses are feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. But how do you deal with the COVID-1 9 pandemic when you are the owner of multiple businesses?  How do you find the resilience and determination to not only keep moving forward, but also make an impact on your community?

Join Sueling Ching, President & CEO of Ottawa Board of Trade in a fireside chat with two of Ottawa’s amazing business leaders and entrepreneurs, Karla Briones and Steve Cody.

Karla Briones is the owner of Freshii Westboro, Global Pet Foods Kanata & Hintonburg, and Karla Briones Consulting.  Karla is an independent business advisor with the World Skills Employment Centre, funder and mentor with The Founders Fund, and business advisor with Invest Ottawa.

In 2018, Karla was awarded the Ottawa Newcomer Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the recipient of the Women Who Lead Award in 2019.

Steve Cody has founded more than a dozen successful businesses including Cody Party Rentals, Monster Halloween, The Better Software Company.  Steve’s latest venture, Ruckify, has rolled out in Canada and is now taking Texas by storm.  Steve founded Say No For Nick, a not-for-profit organization advocating for the prevention of opioid and fentanyl use by youth.