‘Real Leaders Create More Leaders': An Evening With Manjit Minhas

Key insights from a BLG event

Being a successful woman in business often means challenging limiting stereotypes, juggling personal responsibilities and navigating the male-dominated corridors of power.

For International Women's Day and the launch of Driven By Women as a national initiative for women in business and law, BLG hosted Driven By Women: Perspectives on Equality with Manjit Minhas. Manjit Minhas, the Alberta-born CEO, entrepreneur, philanthropist, star of CBC's Dragons' Den, wife and mother, offered the audience of clients and firm members unique insight into her significant professional and personal successes.

Minhas' dynamic keynote led the audience through her journey from a nineteen-year-old engineering student with a bold idea to Canada's "Beer Baroness". Full of colourful anecdotes (her first product's label is an homage to an encounter with a black bear in the Rocky Mountains) and concrete advice, the event brought together current and upcoming