Elizabeth Gage, president and CEO of PCM Interactive will address the Canadian Chapter of 85 Broads in Toronto, on April 29, 2009 on the subject of Entrepreneurial Leadership – or how to embrace change and risk and succeed in business and in life.

The business world is moving fast, changing dramatically and becoming more complex. For leaders and businesses that can react quickly, make changes easily and take calculated risks it’s a world filled with opportunity. And now more than ever it’s a necessary marketing and life strategy. Elizabeth Gage tells how she makes this work and why you should sometimes be comfortable jumping off a cliff.

About Elizabeth Gage:

Elizabeth Gage is president of PCM Interactive, a leader in performance-based Internet marketing for business, specializing in advanced search optimization. PCMI delivers next-generation search, mobile and online marketing strategies and functionality designed to maximize business presence, impact and return on investment. The company is a spin-off of a national Yellow Pages and Internet marketing firm first founded by her in 1995. She is the recipient of the “Building Business Award” and the winner of the 2008 Women Entrepreneur of the Year Award given by the Woman Business Owners of Manitoba.

Elizabeth had a brief career as an actor at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, North America’s Leading Classical Theatre, before beginning her marketing and advertising career in 1986 with Moffat Communications and then the Winnipeg Free Press before launching her own company.

She has a B.A. English Honours Degree from Queens University and studied entrepreneurship at the MIT-Sloan School of Management.

About 85 Broads:

85 Broads is a global community of 19,000 accomplished women at all stages of their lives and careers who leverage one another’s intellectual and financial capital to effect change worldwide. The women in 85 Broads know how to “tack into the wind” – they know that creating a successful and happy life requires an awesome combination of intellectual and emotional firepower coupled with the guts, the talent, and the ambition to think big. The women in 85 Broads are inspired, empowered, and connected globally.

In 1997, Janet Hanson was inspired to create 85 Broads, a network connecting women who had retired from Goldman Sachs with women who were building their careers at 85 Broad Street, the firm’s Manhattan headquarters. What all these women had in common was a “love of the game” – whether as investment bankers, traders, research analysts, or portfolio managers. Over time, their passion for their clients, their teammates, and the firm itself morphed into something even greater – an uncompromising standard of excellence in everything they chose to do in their personal and professional lives.

Not long after the network was founded, 85 Broads expanded its membership to include women who shared that passion for excellence – regardless of chosen professional career path. For that reason, women who were students and alumnae of the leading graduate and undergraduate institutions were invited to join 85 Broads to collaborate and partner with the network’s founding members. http://www.85broads.com

About Toronto Dinner Event on April 29:

For more information on the April 29, Toronto Dinner Event, please contact Noelle Ibrahim at: 1(905)708-1058 or email: 85.Broads.Toronto@gmail.com