Chamber Chats with Paul Haysom

If your business was rated based on a scorecard, how would you do? Bruce chats with Steve Wellburn and Elizabeth Vannan from MNP about their business scorecard they've put together to help business owners with their vision for their business.

In this chat Bruce is joined by three guests; The Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness Executive Director, Kelly Roth, Our Place Society CEO, Julian Daly, and BC Housing Director of Community and Stakeholder Engagement Murray Langdon.

Bruce chats with three unique specialty business owners. Lindsay Dault of Country Bee Honey, Tara Black of Origin Bakery, and Autumn Maxwell of Cold Comfort Ice Cream.

Housing costs continue to escalate as the supply chain for the Real Estate, Construction and Development sectors are operating at full speed. Three Pivot Pilots from the Construction and Development speak about that in this week’s Chamber Chat. Chamber CEO Bruce Williams speaks with Kathy Witcher from the Urban Development Institute and Chamber Champions John Knappett, President of Knappett Projects and Tom Plumb, CEO of Kinetic Construction

In this Chamber Chat we learn about the pivots undertaken by a live music venue, a live event planner, and a public safety and security provider. All have been Pivot Pilots as we taxi along the Recovery Runway.

No sector has been impacted more by the COVID pandemic than the restaurant and hospitality sector. Ups and downs, open then closed. This week we gather perspectives on that from the BC Restaurant and Food Association plus two restauranteurs, one established and one quite new.

Businesses continue to make strategic pivots as we all continue to taxi along the Recovery Runway. Among the Pivot Pilots is a local media outlet who have been in pivot mode for over 10 years as they have redefined and grown their business and culture.
We hear their story in this week’s Chamber Chat

As businesses continue to taxi together along the Recovery Runway there are some who are actually expanding their operations as they pivot into the new economy. Three of these Pivot Pilots tell us about their expansion plans.

As we continue to taxi along the Recovery Runway we are having conversations with the “Pivot Pilots”, business leaders who were able to pivot their operations into innovation mode. In this edition a company who undertook manufacturing much-needed ventilators for medical support to COVID patients, a post-secondary who created face shields and a safe model for transporting vaccines, and a brewery pivoting from beer to hand sanitizer.

As we traverse our pathway through the COVID-19 pandemic The Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce sees us all together as we taxi along the #RecoveryRunway. Businesses of all sizes have had to pivot their planning to adapt with change, and among those businesses are the #PivotPilots who have shown great innovation and leadership in their business practices. In this edition of Chamber Chats Bruce Williams sat down with three #PivotPilots who have been navigating that runway until we're all clear for takeoff.
Cathy Scott of Departures Travel, Paul Hadfield of Spinnakers, and Marnie Hart of Sailor Jack Consignment are this week's "Pivot Pilots"