Women Shining Magazine Women Shining Spring 2018 | Page 39

Women’s Enterprise Centre
We have a partner organization in Quebec
that is called Reseau des Femmes d’Affaires
du Quebec run by Ruth Vachon who is a total
powerhouse. So Quebec is well served by our
partner organization - www.lesaffaires.com
It says on our website, if you want service in
French click here. Click on the logo for SDE and
it takes you to the Societe de developpement
economique Colombie-Britannique they are
based in Vancouver. They have adopted some of
our programming for their women clients - such
as our peer mentoring programs.
Interviewer: When you get up in the morning
and it is another day and you are behind the
gun and you have another proposal to write,
what keeps you going forward?
Where does your obvious passion about this
work stem from?
LD: I come by it naturally, passed down from
parents and grandparents - all of whom are
entrepreneurs. I have more of the helping gene
than they do, so I am very entrepreneurial, but I
have a very strong public service bent as well.
The 20 years I spent in the tech centre really