Speakers
Brooklyn Rowe
Brooklyn Rowe is a dynamic leader with a passion for entrepreneurship, mentorship, and community-building. With a Bachelor of Commerce from the Haskayne School of Business, she has built a career at the intersection of innovation and leadership. As a Venture Leader at Creative Destruction Lab-Rockies, she works closely with early-stage technology startups, providing strategic guidance and mentorship to help them scale.
Her professional journey includes working with multiple Canadian startups, where she played key roles in business development, branding, and strategy. Beyond her corporate work, Brooklyn has been deeply involved in initiatives that create opportunities for underrepresented communities. As the former Director of Autism Works Entrepreneurship (AWE) with Enactus Calgary, she helped entrepreneurs with Autism Spectrum Disorder build sustainable businesses. She also served as a Teaching Assistant for Haskayne’s Entrepreneurial Thinking course, mentoring students to embrace uncertainty and innovation.
Brooklyn will share insights on stepping into confidence, overcoming challenges, and leveraging strengths to create new opportunities. Drawing from personal experiences and professional expertise, she aims to inspire women to lead with courage, conviction, and a mindset of limitless possibility
Kim Tackaberry of GLOW
Join GLOW's Founder in a celebration of International Women's Day! This Confident Me workshop explores how images and messages from advertising to movies to social media are often manipulations of the truth. Leave with strategies to resist appearance pressures, avoid comparing yourself, challenge appearance ideals and build body confidence.
\Kim Tackaberry, M.Ed.
Kim Tackaberry has dedicated 33 years to the field of education, with a strong emphasis on literacy and inclusive practices. She currently serves as a Designer of Professional Learning at the Alberta Professional Learning Consortium, where she creates/delivers professional learning as well as develops online courses to support educators throughout the province. A significant portion of Kim's teaching career was spent at Foothills Academy Society, a specialized school for children with learning disabilities and/or ADHD. Her commitment to education is further reflected in her recent completion of a Master of Education in Literacy from Queen’s University. In 2006, Kim founded the GLOW (Girls Leading Others Wisely) program, an 8-week empowerment and leadership initiative for girls ages 9-14. The GLOW Guides and facilitation training has earned global recognition.
Making Changes Association
At Making Changes, we are committed to creating an environment of inclusion and welcome ALL who identify as women regardless of age, race/ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or physical ability.
Making Changes celebrates diversity and is committed to creating a safe space, while helping to advance futures for women in our community.
We’re passionate about helping women and teen girls going through life transitions to overcome barriers, open doors and create your own paths. Over the years, thousands of clients have found their way to us – each with their own unique story. For some, it’s as they prepare to re-enter the workforce or as new-to-Canada residents, while others find us because their lives took an unexpected turn.
We help put confidence back in your step, hope in your heart, and a smile on your face. The positive life-changing results of our clients and Programs can be seen in offices, classrooms, stores and communities around Calgary. By the smiles on clients’ faces. And the fact that many clients have become Making Changes volunteers – and even employees – speaks volumes.
Advancing futures for women, together!