🆕 Inspire: The leadership series

What does it take to start a company in Calgary, gain market share, and grow globally? Grit, determination, and a never-stop-pushing attitude. Join us this fall for a new speaker series called Inspire: The leadership series. Hear stories from three global entrepreneurs as they highlight their path to success and the critical decisions they made through the growth of their business.

Get inspired by: 

• Dianne Wilkins from Critical Mass – September 27, 2018
• Bryan de Lottinville from Benevity – November 6, 2018
• Ray Price from Sunterra Group – December 5, 2018 

Series ticket packs (includes tickets for all 3 events) are on sale!

Expanding your influence

🆕 Cannabis in the workplace

📅 August 29,  2018   🕒 8:30 am - 9:30 am   📍 Calgary Chamber

Your Calgary Chamber is hosting a series of workshops and webinars with experts from the cannabis industry to help shed some light on what to expect following recreational legalization.  

This workshop features a presentation by the Cannabis Learning Series, a company that specializes in cannabis workplace health and safety education. Join us for an overview of medicinal and recreational cannabis, the impacts that it will have in the workplace, and three key steps that every company should take to ensure that they are ready.

Connect at upcoming events

GenYYC information night 

📅 August 21, 2018   🕒 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm   📍 Calgary Chamber

In partnership with the Calgary Foundation, GenYYC is a new Calgary Chamber program designed to build the relationship between our future leaders, business, and community. Participants will take part in a two-year program centered around people, environment, leadership and culture. 

Applications are currently open for GenYYC class of 2020.

This is our final information session before the applications close and it's free! Don't miss your chance to learn more about participating in this unique leadership program.

Set your business up for success in Q4 with The Hunt: Sales  

📅 September 21, 2018   🕒 8:30 am - 11:30 am   📍 ATB Entrepreneur Centre

With fall just around the corner, it's time to start thinking about how you're going to reset and slay your sales targets once the summer sun fades. We have just the thing to give you a leg up on the competition: a workshop with Hamish Knox from Sandler Training.

Leading the fourth installment of The Hunt workshop series, Hamish is a renowned executive sales coach. Here you'll get practical tips to take your sales game to the next level as well as help create the road map you need to successfully close out your year.

🆕 Business After Hours at Escape 60

📅 September 13, 2018   🕒 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm   📍 Escape 60

Have you tried an escape room yet? Join us for our next Business After Hours at Escape 60 for an evening of trivia and fun! Located in Sunalta, Escape 60 caters to corporate clients providing the perfect opportunity for a team offsite. With four escape rooms to choose from there is something for everyone. 

This unique Business After Hours event will give you both social networking and a mental challenge. Don’t miss out, this event will fill up fast!

Tips to grow your business

Digital tip: Up your social media game by answering these 8 branding questions

To excel at social media, you must be a social media expert, right? While this is true in some respects, having narrow social media knowledge can also be limiting.

A social media-only focus can actually hold back your strategy from reaching its full potential. You are building more than a social media presence - you're building a brand. This article from Entrepreneur asks basic business questions to help get your brand on track. 

What we're reading...

• Rising minimum wage blamed as 25,700 jobs vanish in Calgary's service sector
• Davignon Martin blossoming in architectural world 
• Want to jump-start your eCommerce business? Try a pop-up shop
• Investment attitudes are changing to create a more sustainable world

• Grocery store locations among first round of approvals for Calgary cannabis dispensaries

Member insights

Chamber member: Imperial 

After more than a century, Imperial continues to be an industry leader in applying technology and innovation to responsibly develop Canada’s energy resources. As Canada’s largest petroleum refiner, a major producer of crude oil, a key petrochemical producer and a leading fuels marketer from coast to coast, Imperial remains committed to high standards across all areas of its business.

Save on your fuel bill with the Esso Fleet Program  

Finding ways to save is more important than ever to your business' bottom line, and saving 3.5 cents per litre can make quite a difference on your monthly bill. As a Calgary Chamber member you have access to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's business savings with Esso.

Whether you have a small sales force or a large fleet of service vehicles, the Esso Business Card Program gives you exceptional fuel savings, powerful and easy-to-use fuel management tools and broad acceptance at nearly 1,800 Esso stations in Canada.

From our community partners

Canadian Chambers: Keep trade free

Your Calgary Chamber strongly supports a new initiative launched by the Canadian Chambers of Commerce - a Coalition to Keep Trade Free.

The Coalition to Keep Trade Free helps organizations mobilize at the local, state and federal levels to advocate for freer trade within North American and around the world, as well as to ensure a successful renegotiation of NAFTA for continued economic prosperity for Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Community leaders