founder of Imaginal Ventures Inc and The Purpose Led Business School. She helps entrepreneurs stay connected to their purpose while they scale their small and medium sized businesses as a force for good.
Dorothy’s twenty-year experience as a skilled Business and Leadership Advisor has helped SME’s catalyze profitability and asset growth. Her work with scaling purpose-led businesses through building supporting structures, procedures and workflow systems has gained notoriety in the entrepreneurial community.
As the Canadian coach for SheEO, Top CEO Award recipient, Innovation Award and Professional Engineers Service Award recipient, Spence has been recognized for her innovation and leadership.
When I started my university career, I was already an outlier. I had decided to study mechanical engineering when, at the time, women made up only about 5 percent of the program. I went into this hypercompetitive, masculine-dominated environment knowing I would face challenges, including overcoming the old boy’s network. Some professors blatantly told us...