Leaning into Innovation: How to Take Your Business to the Next Level

If you want to become more innovative in your small business, but aren’t sure where to begin, join us for a practical and inspiring exploration of what innovation truly looks like in women-led businesses.

Our guide will be Gharsa Amin, Founder and CEO of Kavodax, a Canadian fintech company revolutionizing cross-border payments for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

This session will help you reframe what innovation really means, and show how it can be accessible, strategic, and grounded in your unique strengths.

In this engaging 90-minute session, you’ll gain a clear framework and actionable tools to help you innovate with confidence, clarity, and purpose.

Whether you’re in the early stages of your business or already growing, you’ll leave feeling inspired, capable, and equipped with concrete next steps to move from ideas to action.

This interactive workshop will:

• Introduce you to a real-world innovation framework, including practical and powerful questions every woman entrepreneur should be asking to uncover meaningful innovation opportunities.
• Explore four common challenges women face when innovating and provide actionable steps to move past them.
• Share Gharsa’s firsthand innovation journey in the fintech (financial technology) space.
• Walk you through a simple, 6-step process so you can begin implementing what you learn right away.

Register for the Leaning into Innovation workshop

NOTE: Live Zoom transcription is available during this event. Should you require other accessibility supports, please email kerry.ramsay@queensu.ca as soon as possible since advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.

 

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Gharsa Amin is a Canadian entrepreneur, software engineer, and the Founder and CEO of Kavodax, a fintech startup transforming cross-border payments via blockchain. Based in Toronto, Ontario, she is a specialist in the stablecoin and digital economy sectors with over four years of experience across seven startups.

She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) focused on financial crime management, which informs her expertise in regulatory compliance. Additionally, she has self-taught herself quantum software applications. She has worked with 7 startups across Canada, the USA, and Asia. She speaks 5 languages and loves athletic activities.

ABOUT THE WE-CAN PROJECT:
The WE-CAN Project is led by Queen’s University with a mission to inspire and empower existing and aspiring women entrepreneurs by providing them with tools, resources, expert mentors, networks and community building to expand existing businesses and to launch new ventures. Since launching in 2020, the WE-CAN Project has supported more than 1,600 women entrepreneurs in launching, growing and scaling their business in the greater Kingston region.

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