Successfully launch your impact projet
Collision is a 3-month program designed to help you launch your impact project and structure your entrepreneurial approach. You are supported by a community of coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who help you tackle your early development challenges. You will build a solid foundation for your entrepreneurial project to ensure its sustainability and increase your impact..
Three highly intensive months
Collision is an intensive 3-month program that combines coaching, methodological workshops based on your development stage and networking activities.
Over 30 hours of tailored coaching to help you achieve your organizational development goals.
4 half-day workshops to support you throughout your entrepreneurial journey.
Exclusive networking opportunities
An opportunity to meet, share experiences and ideas and get feedback from Impact8 alumni and the Esplanade community.
Access to our expanded network of entrepreneurship experts, sector partners and impact leaders.
Increased visibility on Esplanade networks and platforms, and with our sector partners for piloting opportunities.
Being a part of Esplanade's community of social entrepreneurs and innovators, as well as its ecosystem.
The Collision Program runs through cohorts that are either general or based on our 3 areas of expertise:
Are you developing an innovative solution with a strong social or environmental impact?
This program is for you. We accept all types of projects!
You are an NPO/Cooperative and you want to structure your business model to better support your social mission.
You are a start-up developing a technology that contributes to solving environmental and/or social issues.
You are an established organization developing a new product or service supported by a new business model.
You are an entrepreneur and you want to validate your value proposition and consolidate your business model.
You are a researcher and you wish to use your research results in an entrepreneurial approach.
By joining the Collision Program, you will be supported by a community of coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who will help you develop a solid foundation for your impact project and ensure its sustainability.
Understand and define your impact
Clarify and validate the social, environmental and economic impact of your organization and your solutions.
Understand your ecosystem
Explore your ecosystem to identify where issues, needs and solutions intersect.
Integrate an ecosystem of change agents
Initiate meetings and collaborations that will guide you in your entrepreneurial journey.
Put impact at the heart of your business model
Consolidate your business model around an innovative approach that combines economic viability and social impact.
Reveal your entrepreneurial potential: embody the values that inspire your daily actions.
Challenge your ideas to develop a solution that meets the real needs of your users.
Collision training is structured around four major, theme-based modules. You benefit from support at each stage of the process, right up to the validation of your proof of concept at the end of said process.
Are you developing a high-impact solution ?
To better support you, we are looking for projects and teams that meet the following criteria:
You are developing a project with high potential for community impact and transformation
You are available and willing to commit for the duration of the program
Your project is an innovative, efficient and realistic solution to a community problem or need, particularly within our three areas of social innovation
You value a collaborative and empathetic learning and life skills approach
Une équipe engagée et un réseau de coachs et d’experts au service des entrepreneurs et organisations
CHRISTOPHE GOFFOZ
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EDITH PERREAULT
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CLAIRE LANCTOT
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Coach d'affaires - Image de marque et présence web
JEAN-FRANÇOIS GIGUÈRE
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