Learn
- Professional certification
- Master’s or PhD
- New professional or technical skills
For Black women who are in motion.
Whether you’re pursuing a certification, going back for your Master’s or PhD, building a business, starting a nonprofit, working toward a board seat, finding your voice as a speaker, growing your career, building wealth or beginning again, you don’t have to have it all figured out.
You just need to be moving.
Calgary, Alberta
A room where your ambition does not need an introduction.
What are you in motion toward?
Momentum looks different for every woman.
Build
- Business or side hustle
- Nonprofit or NGO
- Community initiative
- Product or program
Advance
- Promotion
- Career change
- Leadership
- Executive progression
Lead & influence
- Board or advisory service
- Public speaking
- Thought leadership
- Community leadership
Create
- Research
- A book or project
- A new idea
- A grant-funded initiative
Build wealth & security
- Investing
- Homeownership
- Financial stability
- Asset building
Begin again
- Career rebuilding
- Workforce re-entry
- Immigration transition
- A new chapter
- A long-delayed ambition
The common denominator is not what she is pursuing. It is that she is moving.
We create rooms that produce movement
Her Own Circle is built around four kinds of experiences. Sometimes you need to do something. Sometimes you need to learn something. Sometimes you need to be seen. And sometimes you simply need to be in a room with women who understand.
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Her Own Workshops
Practical working sessions designed around execution. Come with something you want to move forward. Leave having actually done something.
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Women Who Know Things
There are women in our community who know things the rest of us need to know. These sessions create access to practical knowledge, candid questions, real experience and women willing to share what they know.
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Her Own Showcase
Sometimes a woman does not need another lesson. She needs to be seen. Her Own Showcase creates space for women to share their expertise, work, businesses, ideas and journeys, creating visibility and opening the door to introductions, referrals, customers, partnerships and opportunities.
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Her Own Conversations
Smaller, thoughtfully facilitated conversations for experiences women navigate together: motherhood and ambition, identity, belonging, friendship, caring across continents, starting again, relationships, leadership, success and rest.
Sometimes the impact is simply: “I am not the only one navigating this.”
More than another networking event
You can collect a hundred business cards and still go home exactly where you started.
We want something different.
Her Own Circle creates small, intentional rooms where something useful happens. You might leave with something completed. Something you finally understand. A meaningful introduction. Greater visibility. A new opportunity. Or simply the realization that you are not the only woman navigating this.
Small rooms. Practical support. Meaningful relationships. Tangible outcomes.
Impact + trajectory.
Impact is what happens in the room.
Trajectory is what becomes possible afterward.
Who is this circle for?
Her Own Circle isn’t curated around titles, status or how far you’ve already come. It’s curated around how you show up.
She does not need to be the most senior woman in the room, hold a particular job title, own a business, or have already arrived. She wants more and is willing to move toward it, even when she cannot see the entire path yet.
She is curious, intentional, ready to learn, and prepared to act. She values meaningful relationships and is willing to contribute.
Come to learn. Come to connect. Come prepared to contribute.
Join Her Own Circle
Our audience is open. Our community is intentional.
We are building a community of women who want to move forward and are willing to help other women move too.
You don’t have to know exactly where you’re going to start moving
Sometimes momentum begins with a conversation. Sometimes with an introduction. Sometimes with finally sending the application. Sometimes with putting your hand up. Sometimes with walking into the right room.
Come into the room.
Calgary first. Built intentionally.