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RRC Polytech is Manitoba’s largest institute of applied learning and research, with more than 150 full- and part-time degree, diploma and certificate options. Through hands-on and online learning opportunities and state-of-the-art instruction, we prepare our students to become leaders in their fields — while also ensuring they can meet changing industry demands, and contribute to the province’s economic growth.

Johnston Group provides employee benefit solutions to companies from one employee to 10,000 or more. We’re a platinum member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, having held the Best Managed distinction every year since 2001. We call Winnipeg home and we believe strongly in giving back by contributing to our local health, arts, sports, and other community organizations. Over 30,000 Canadian businesses trust us with their employee benefit needs.

The role of the Exchange District BIZ, a non-profit organization, is to bring local businesses together to promote the area, to improve the District’s physical appearance, to support events that attract people to the community, and to play an advocacy role for local business on issues of common concern.

North Forge is an award winning not-for-profit startup incubator, accelerator, and state-of-the-art fabrication lab that fuels Manitoba’s innovative science-based, technology-enabled, and advanced manufacturing startups from ideation to funding by offering unparalleled experiences and resources to help startups grow.

New Media Manitoba (NMM) is the non-profit sector council and industry association that represents Manitoba’s Interactive Digital Media (IDM) industry.

Creative Manitoba strengthens, represents and connects Manitoba’s arts and creative industries. We unite and engage employers, workers, educators, professional associations and government in a strategic alliance, enabling the arts and cultural sector to thrive.

We empower people and organizations to solve complex challenges and create positive change through strategic practices, design, marketing, technology and innovation.

Forward Media brings accountability, measurement, and creativity to digital media. We help our clients accelerate growth and drive measurable business outcomes by deploying diversified digital customer acquisition solutions that deliver scalable, sustainable sales results. Our performance digital media and creative group connects our customers’ brands to the right offers at the right time to achieve a desired sales objective. At Forward Media, we are continually innovating to provide new and emerging media, creative, and technology solutions to our clients.

At Vincent Design, we don’t just create—we connect. Every brand has a story, and we make sure yours is seen, heard, and felt. As a full-service marketing, design, and web development agency, we handle everything from branding to strategy to execution, ensuring an engaging and seamless presence for your brand. From strategy to execution, we build brands that make an impact.

Anyone can shoot a video, but to craft something that truly makes an impact, it takes much more than cameras and lighting. We do it through the power of story. It’s how we help people build stronger connections to their audiences, reach their goals and push their businesses forward.

Gabrielle Touchette is a photographer in Winnipeg specializing in portrait and commercial photography. She started her business in 2008 after obtaining a diploma from PrairieView School of Photography (now Willis College). After graduating, Gabrielle taught in their diploma program before shifting gears in 2010 to run her business full time. Today, Gabrielle continues to be passionate about meeting new people and sharing their stories through her favourite art form: photography.

How does Linda Drosdowech coaching work? Great question! When we work together we:

Find out what feels delicious and delightful to you right now and in the future

Figure out what habits, thoughts, and actions you want to change

Decide your focus, and get to work finding new solutions

Break down goals into bite-size tasks

Deal with rejections, boundaries, frustrations, and everything human about loveable, gorgeous you.

Create healthy ways to process the feelings you’re avoiding. Yes, sometimes there are tears.

Celebrate your wins & have so much fun & laughs

Build powerful forward momentum that comes from you getting comfortable with discomfort

At Harrison Coffee Co., we love coffee! We love coffee so much that we decided to focus on it and become a specialty coffee roaster, meaning we only roast and serve the highest grade coffees available. Our love of coffee comes from understanding and appreciating all the love, attention, and lives affected before the coffee gets into your cup.

As a coworking space, we help people grow ideas through community, collaboration, and collective wisdom. At Launch, we deliver a predicable, flexible, safe, clean, friendly, and fun place for people to focus on their work, meet with colleagues, and host important educational, training and networking events. This is why we’re Winnipeg’s highest reviewed coworking space.

Our world is shaping and shifting at an unprecedented pace, presenting new challenges and new opportunities, daily. Communities, individuals, institutions and ideas are intertwined and influenced by change like never before. Achieving results in such a complex environment demands human intervention with an experienced and thoughtful strategy.

ChangeMakers was created for this complexity – to help navigate change.

We are a team of over 400 seasoned, passionate experts of various disciplines working as one team in offices throughout Canada and in the US. Our decades of experience in reputation, social impact and marketing have equipped us with a deep comprehension of diverse audiences, enabling us to craft solutions that address multiple needs simultaneously. This allows us to have multiple perspectives on the challenges and opportunities presented by our clients and partners.