DirectHer's Birthday Panel Calgary

It's our 1st Birthday - and we want to celebrate with you!

Over the past year we have met nearly 500 members of the DirectHer community in person and interacted with thousands of you through our social media channels and email.  For our 1st Birthday, and International Women's Day we want to celebrate with you!

This event will have it all: a panel of inspiring female directors who are doing BIG things with impressive organizations, brunch style appies & drinks AND pop-up shopping featuring local women-led businesses.  Our Calgary panelists include:

• Shashi Behl: Director - Craft Brewery, Chair - Alberta Women Entrepreneurs, Former Director - Calgary Run for Water, Futrepreneur

• Stacey McDonald - Independent Director - Birchcliff Energy

• Trish Morrison - Board Governor - Canadian College of Construction Lawyers, Director - Famous Five Foundation, Former Director - CREW Calgary, Calgary Construction Association, Calgary Legal Guidance

To encourage you to round up the leading women in your life for this event, we are offering a 6-pack of tickets that will include 6 complimentary enamel pins, featuring our signature "eGALite" icon (a $45 savings).

We are excited to feature the following women-led businesses to celebrate International Women's Day:

• Joydrop

  We have a sneaking suspicion the little things in life aren’t actually the little things. In fact we think they might be the big things. Little moments that bring you joy, or when you bring joy to someone else, we think those just might be what life is all about. So yes, you could call us a jewelry store, but you could also call us a place where we celebrate the little things, especially delicate, beautiful and wearable little things.

  Our stores showcase collections by our favourite jewelry designers from all over the world. This includes some of the jewelry world's mainstays, and we also bring in an eclectic assortment of sunglasses, earrings, and necklaces.

• Sphere Optometry 

  We’re Sphere Optometry, a full-scope optometry clinic and optical shop in southeast Calgary.At Sphere, we believe in making a positive difference with every patient, in our community, our city, and the world, and our goal is to help our patients live fully and joyfully.  We also harbour a deep love for independent hand-crafted eyewear, and delivering intuitive vision care. Simply put, we’re all about kindness and connection, ocular and wholistic wellness, and giving back to our local and global community.

• The Gut Lab
  

  it is sisters, danica + lexi’s mission to educate, empower + inspire you with their simple + nourishing blends designed to elevate your elixirs, smoothies, special snacks + desserts, as well as all your kitchen creations.since 2016, the gut lab’s superfood ranges are mindfully crafted using only the highest quality, responsibly sourced powdered roots, herbs, fruits, + healing mushrooms. it is our heart felt promise to support you along your wellness journey in mind, body, + spirit.because at the gut lab, we believe in supercharged wellness for the people, for the planet.

• SophieGrace
  

  SophieGrace is a new online brand dedicated to making it incredibly easy to look professional and stylish. We are a collection of mix and match work wear essentials that style together perfectly to ensure getting ready in the morning is both stylish and stress free.

• Parts & Labor Inc
  

  we are determined to elevate, empower, disrupt + challenge the fashion stigmas, leading with positivity + WILD LOVE.  we story-tell, create + collaborate with intention + our limited edition apparel capsules are symbolic of heart + originality. we work in mediums of ready-to-wear luxe athletic + nostalgic re-invented vintage gems, but have been seen dabbling in jewels, scents + leather accessories [all proudly manufactured in our home town, CALGARY AB]  oh + we LOVE to move our bods.

• Wrinkle & Crease
  

  Wrinkle & Crease is a letterpress stationery company that designs and produces luxury handmade paper products. Our products seek to encourage you to put your pen to paper and write a special message to connect you to the people in your life on a deeper level.

• SI Skin
  

  SI SKIN is committed to understanding and supporting the fundamentals of the MIND BODY + SKIN to reveal healthy skin and an empowered spirit.

• Poppy Barley
  

  Poppy Barley is a Canadian luxury brand that’s rethinking every step of the fashion industry—from design to factory relationships to retail experience. Founded by Kendall and Justine Barber in Edmonton, they make ready to wear and made to order leather footwear and accessories