Surrey Women in Business Team

The Surrey Board of Trade believes that women leaders are integral to high-performing work teams. We know that by propelling women with high-growth entrepreneurs and their ventures one by one, we are leading a transformation of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a whole.

We know that:

• Women-run companies create new jobs 4 times faster than the national average.
• Women create companies at double the national average.
• The number of women with incorporated businesses more than doubled in the past decade.

Surrey Women in Business Team

Under the umbrella of the SBOT’s Business Centre, a community of experts committed to propelling female entrepreneurship and young women entrepreneurs – not career-focused – but building entrepreneurship for today and tomorrow to ensure full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in high-growth businesses, fuelling innovation and driving economic growth.

Advocacy – Events – Projects – Services through the Surrey Board of Trade’s Business Centre

We actively identify women-led ventures in our Surrey market positioned to be the largest city in British Columbia.
We are blazing new ground with a differentiated and holistic model that provides inclusive teams and ventures with the services/support they need to propel growth through collaborative partners.

The Surrey Board of Trade has positioned itself to reduce the gender gap, actively support female entrepreneurship, and know that we need to work together to improve access to and quality of programming that empowers women with equal opportunity for success and champions them as the next great leaders in business.

• November 2023: Meeting Agenda
• September 2023: Meeting Agenda
• April 2023: Meeting Agenda
• February 2023: Meeting Agenda

• Barely Breaking Ground: Canadian Chamber of Commerce Report
• Surrey Board of Trade: Women in Business Resources
• Beyond pink-collar jobs for women and the social economy
• Analysis on businesses majority-owned by Women, First quarter of 2023
• Grant Thornton launches Women in Business report 2023
• Women in Trade
• Work-Life Balance
• 10 Things the Federal Government Can Do to Fully Engage Women in the Workforce.
• Demographics
• Women in the Workplace 2022
• Understanding the Impact of the Pandemic on Working Women
• Women and the Pandemic
• Federal Government: Women Entrepreneur Support
• New Research: Despite a lack of support, Canada’s women entrepreneurs are finding new and creative paths to growth.
• Women, Work Disruption and the Pandemic
• Breaking Barriers:  A decade of Indigenous women’s entrepreneurship in Canada
• Championing Women in Business in Canada: A practical toolkit for Canadian employers to recruit, retain and promote more women into leadership positions and bring them onto boards of directors.
• International Women’s Day: Recruiting, retaining, and promoting more women into leadership positions key to Canada’s sustainable economic recovery and growth
• Business leaders sound alarm, say working women need help now
• 10 Things the Federal Government Can Do to Fully Engage Women in the Workforce
• Five Things the Federal Government Can Do Right Now to Support Women and Foster Economic Growth
• Women and the workplace – How employers can advance equality and diversity – Report from the Symposium on Women and the Workplace
• Organizations that Help Women to get started in the Construction Trades
• Women In Capital Markets: Resource for board chairs, senior leaders, and recruiters to identify and locate qualified women for board positions in finance
• What’s Really Holding Women Back?
• Workplace Mental Health

Canadian Chamber Women in Business Summit