Jill Earthy - Building Successful Professional Relationships

Jill Earthy is an entrepreneur with a Master of Business Administration. Throughout her career, Jill has worked with strong leaders to build and deliver programs promoting women in business. Her first employer was an inspirational female entrepreneur who became her mentor and business partner. This relationship led Jill to work with several other successful entrepreneurs and to ultimately become one. In 2001, Jill created a national event staffing company based in Toronto and after only two years, she grew the company to service eight other Canadian cities. Following these successes, Jill sold the business to a Vancouver-based company in 2003. Assuming a Directorship role with this new organization, Jill then drove the growth of the company to double its combined revenue before joining FWE in the spring of 2007. Although Jill’s primary focus is the FWE, she remains an entrepreneur and runs her own company entitled momcafé Network Inc. , which supports professional women who are balancing a stimulating career with raising a family. momcafe has expanded to support women across the country, especially in Vancouver, Prince George, Kelowna, Fraser Valley, Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto with more communities coming on line soon.

A believer in collaboration, Jill brought together the leaders of 25 women’s business networks in the Vancouver lower mainland. These women now meet regularly with the purpose of streamlining the information flow between their organizations in order to efficiently direct women in business to the appropriate resources. In 2009, Jill and two other organizations were responsible for the creation of the Progressive Employers of Canada List. This national initiative was created to put the onus on employers to identify their strategies for being more progressive in order to attract and retain professional women. The 2010 list proved to be an even better tool for educating women to make the best choice for their careers and for helping organizations to share and implement best practices.

Jill’s passion is helping women succeed. She is a mentor for the Women’s Enterprise Centre of BC, a Judge for the RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (2010) and is involved in a variety of other community initiatives. Jill currently lives in Vancouver with her husband and two young daughters.