Entrepreneur Talk with Theresa Smith

Theresa Smith is Co-founder of Optimize Dental. As a leader, teacher and perpetual learner, Theresa finds herself in the amazing field of dentistry. She strives to help dental teams find balance, enrichment and productivity in their everyday tasks. Theresa has 3 wonderful kids who she enjoys spending time with and watching them in their respective sports activities such as basketball, horse showing, and dance. While she continues to create a work life balance, she also enjoys her passions of skiing, traveling, and horses.

Description

An entrepreneur is an individual who takes the risk to start their own business based on an idea they have or a product they have created while assuming most of the risks and reaping most of the rewards of the business.

Job Forecast

In 2019, there were 1,143,610 active enterprises in Canada with one or more employees. Of those, 64.6% had four employees or less. In the same year, there were 79,530 births and 90,710 deaths of enterprises. The construction sector represented the largest number of high-growth enterprises by employment and by revenue. With 1,140 high-growth enterprises by employment and 2,530 high-growth enterprises by revenue, this sector accounted for 15.9% and 19.5% of the total, respectively.

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