Join a Peer Group for Women Business Owners
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As a business owner, you know it’s a challenge to stay on top of everything and keep balance in your life. What if you had a group of women entrepreneurs who you could turn to for feedback and fresh perspectives on your business opportunities and challenges?
As part of a Peer Group, you'll connect with an experienced entrepreneur who has been there, gets the grind and shares her knowledge so you don't have to learn the hard way. With a group of fellow entrepreneurs supporting you, you'll gain the clarity to focus on what really matters, and feel more confident making decisions for the future.
About our peer groups
Each session provides the opportunity to connect with other women entrepreneurs to support and encourage one another to stay motivated, and boost your business skills on topics that you can apply to your business. In this structured program, you learn from the experience of your mentor, while benefiting from the diverse viewpoints of the other group members, each with different strengths.
FAQs
Will I get enough personalized support in a Peer Group?
In a Peer Mentoring group, you get the experience of your mentor, and you also benefit from the diverse viewpoints of the other group members. There might be a woman who runs a marketing firm but needs guidance with her financials. And in her group, we would place a bookkeeper with years of experience in financial management who needs help growing her business on social media. This means they’ll both work with the experienced mentor, and they can also provide another layer of help for each other in the areas where they’re strong.
Who leads the group?
Every group is led by an established entrepreneur in your community who has been through a lot of the same situations you’re dealing with, and has come out the other side. The mentor has a knowledge base from her years of running a business, and she’ll share her insights based on her own experiences.
What if another business steals my secrets?
We interview every woman to make sure we don’t have any competing businesses in each group. We want to create a safe and confidential environment so you feel comfortable sharing! We find a lot of the challenges that women business owners face—like work/life balance, growing their sales, managing too much demand – transcend industries, and our mentees appreciate the different points of view from different types of business owners.
What does it cost to participate?
Due to grant funding from the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy, the program is free to all participants. The Prince Edward Island Business Women's Association acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada through the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. This program is also made possible through a partnership with WeBC.
Who is eligible to participate?
The Peer Mentorship Program is open to PEIBWA members only. Non-members may apply with the understanding that in order to begin the program if selected, they must join the membership. To learn more about joining PEIBWA as a member, please visit our membership page.
How to apply
Applications are now OPEN for the upcoming Peer Mentorship Group. The program runs weekly for approximately 8 weeks, commencing on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. Sessions will be held virtually for the upcoming intake. To have the most impact, we ask that mentees attend each session. The deadline to apply is December 31, 2024. All successful applicants will be notified by January 6, 2025. For any additional questions, please reach out to PEIBWA's Membership and Business Development Officer, Jackie Virtue-Flamminio by email: jackie@peibwa.org.
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