Virtual Roundtable - Gender-Smart Education and Training Action Strategy

This roundtable will showcase a multi-country project that mobilizes evidence-based insights in the development of entrepreneurship education and training as drivers of economic empowerment of girls, women and other disadvantaged groups (e.g., youth, informal workers). The GEET + is the work of Telfer School of Management’s Professors Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliott. The tool has been selectively applied in Canada and the United States.  

Led by The Women's Economic Imperative and funded by the International Development Research Centre (Canada), the pilot project is being launched in Peru, Mexico, Kenya, and Nigeria.  

Learning Objectives

• Understand how entrepreneurship education and training can better address biases within course content, design and delivery.   
• Share information about the Gender-Smart Education and Training Action Strategy (GEET+) as an assessment tool. 
• Grow from lessons shared about shifting perceptions in education, training and business communities to better support women entrepreneurs. 

Speakers

• Margo Thomas, PhD. Founder and CEO, Women’s Economic Imperative 
• Barbara Orser, PhD. Deloitte Professor in the Management of Growth Enterprises, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa 
• Geraldina Silveyra León, PhD. Academic Director of Instituto de Emprendimiento Eugenio Garza Lagüera, Mexico 
• Carolina Robino, PhD. Senior Program Specialist, Employment and Growth, International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office 
• Hellen Nyolo Otieno, PhD. Senior Lecturer and the Faculty Director, Strathmore University Business School, Kenya 

Moderator

• Dan LeClair, CEO, Global Business School Network