Elaine Slatter, Canada

I am the founder of XL Consulting Group, a consultancy helping businesses with strategy, business and marketing plans as well as website design.  We help many people who are setting up their businesses for the first time or businesses that require a new direction.  After a 30 year career as a marketing executive and corporate CEO, I thought all this valuable business experience in a large international corporation could be used to help people start their own businesses or increase revenues in an existing business.  It was after I started my consultancy that I realized many of my women clientele had similar questions about how to start a business and that led me to author “Fabulous Fempreneurship” a business startup book for women entrepreneurs.  Before the book was published early in 2016 I understood it was important to give ongoing support to women entrepreneurs rather than just getting a book in print.  ​From the book project a website was created for Fabulous Fempreneurship and also a mastermind on Facebook which has almost 500 members.   Mentorship is extremely important to me, so I developed a mentorship program on the Fabulous Fempreneurship website to offer free help to women who are just getting started in the hopes of making their entrepreneurship dream a reality.  More programs to help women entrepreneurs are in development and it’s exciting to be a part of this whole movement to change the business landscape for women.