Joelle Foster '86
Joelle is best known as a spirited activist for entrepreneurship in Canada. She currently oversees Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut and NWT. Under her leadership, in Manitoba alone, 251 businesses have opened their doors since 2011.* She has achieved a 91% success rate; 96% success with her 49 restaurants and food manufacturers. She has affectionately earned the title of “Start-Up Mom”.
Joelle supports a wide range of Manitoba’s entrepreneurial initiatives. She sits on the Board for North Forge Technology Exchange and the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce and co-chairs the Small Business Council. In recognition of her work, Joelle won the Board of Directors Excellence Award – Business Community Partner from the Manitoba Filipino Business Council in November 2016. She was a nominee for the YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Business in 2015, a finalist for the Spirit of Winnipeg awards in 2015 and was the Runner Up for the Start-up Canada Award for Ecosystem Builder of the Year in 2014.
*Stats as of February 2016.
Balmoral Hall School
630 Westminster Ave. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3C 3S1
Tel: (204) 784-1600 | Fax: (204) 774-5534 | info@balmoralhall.ca
Charitable Registration No. 12994 3932 RR0001
Tel: (204) 784-1600 | Fax: (204) 774-5534 | info@balmoralhall.ca
Charitable Registration No. 12994 3932 RR0001
Our mission at Balmoral Hall School is to inspire girls’ imagination and the courage to excel, to reach, to lead, to care.
We are a nondenominational independent day and boarding school, educating students from Junior Nursery to Grade 12.
Information on this website can be requested through an accessible format or communication support by contacting us at communications@balmoralhall.ca or (204) 784-1603.
