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Indigenous Business Education Partners News Archive

Photo of 2024 VIBE Awards Gala program on table top beside tent card of L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic

Faculty of Law

Collaborative Pathways: Visionary Indigenous Business Excellence (VIBE) Awards

November 25, 2024 — 
On November 14, 2024, students from the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic and the Indigenous Business Education Partners (IBEP) at the Asper School of Business came together at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg to celebrate the 18th annual Visionary Indigenous Business Excellence (VIBE) Awards. The event, hosted by IBEP, coincided with the 30th anniversary of IBEP, marking three decades of fostering community, education, and Indigenous business leadership.

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Photo by David Lipnowski, taken at IBEP 2024 Graduation.

Asper School of Business

Winnipeg Free Press: VIBE Awards honour meeting community needs

November 19, 2024 — 
VIBE Awards honour meeting community needs

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Asper School of Business

2024 VIBE Awards to honour outstanding Indigenous entrepreneurs this November

October 17, 2024 — 
The 2024 VIBE Awards are on November 14, 2024, celebrating this year’s recipients: Emilie McKinney, founder of Anishinaabe Bimishimo, and Shaun Vincent, founder of Vincent Design Inc. This prestigious annual event combines celebration, networking and philanthropy and will highlight the incredible contributions of VIBE Award recipients McKinney and Vincent, who have each led with ingenuity, passion and a vision that goes far beyond their respective industries. Says IBEP director Riley Proulx [BComm(Hons)/19], “everyone can find inspiration from the stories of resilience, courage and dedication of our award recipients.”

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Dr. Wanda Wuttunee

Asper School of Business

IBEP: Supporting Indigenous student success for 30 years

September 19, 2024 — 
Indigenous Business Education Partners at the Asper School of Business began with people who dared to think beyond the status quo. It was sustained by the dedication of passionate individuals who saw the value, and knew how to show the value, of investing in the success of Indigenous students. It has created connections, community and impact that extend far beyond classrooms and degrees.

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Asper School of Business

Get to know Asper School of Business Director of Indigenous Business Relations, Katherine Davis

September 13, 2024 — 
Instructor and newly appointed director of Indigenous business relations, Katherine Davis [MBA/20] has spent the last 10 years working in cross-cultural settings building relationships with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. She is the first Métis faculty member at the Asper School of Business as well as an alum of the Asper MBA and President’s Student Leadership Program.

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Asper School of Business

An invitation to connect

August 14, 2024 — 
Kristi Perrin [BComm(Hons)/20] didn’t have to think too hard about RSVPing to the Indigenous Business Education Partners (IBEP) 30th Anniversary celebration this September. A reunion of sorts—though many of Perrin’s former IBEP classmates are still her closest friends—the IBEP 30th is an opportunity for Perrin to make new connections, celebrate an incredible legacy and return to a space of community, warmth and welcome.

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Photo by David Lipnowski, taken at IBEP 2024 Graduation.

Asper School of Business

Celebrating history, heritage and resilience this National Indigenous Peoples Day

June 17, 2024 — 
This National Indigenous Peoples Day, the Asper School of Business looks back on stories from 2023-24 that highlight First Nations, Inuit and Métis students and alumni, members of Indigenous Business Education Partners (IBEP).

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Asper School of Business

Asper BComm alum Tyler Roslinsky on four years of transformative business education

May 15, 2024 — 
In a hotel room in Rotterdam, Tyler Roslinsky submits his final assignment of his capstone finance course. He closes his laptop to realize that he is done; he has finished his Asper Bachelor of Commerce degree, from about seven time zones away.

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Asper School of Business

Where community begins

March 6, 2024 — 
Ashley Richard [BComm(Hons)/17], who is now Lead of Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH), Indigenous, can recall many connections that began at Asper through IBEP, made with people that she still actively works or keeps in touch with.

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Asper School of Business

Building Métis community through inclusion and identity

February 16, 2024 — 
Matthew Carriere is a BComm student at the Asper School of Business and member of Indigenous Business Education Partners (IBEP) who knows what it means to find himself through community.

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