A network of women who rise together
SheRise Network Canada is a community based in Barrie, Ontario, built on one belief: women go further when they go together.
It started with a room
SheRise began the way most good things do — with women deciding to stop waiting for an invitation and simply making the room themselves.
What began as a gathering became a network: mentorship circles, skills workshops, wellness sessions and the kind of celebration that tells a woman her work was seen. Today SheRise brings together newcomers finding their footing in Canada, professionals reaching for the next rung, and founders building something of their own.
The thread running through all of it is simple. We rise together, in purpose.
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To equip and accompany women — through mentorship, practical skills, wellness and community — so that each one can step fully into her purpose.
A Canada where no woman has to build her life alone, and where every woman has a network that opens doors and walks through them with her.
Our values
Sisterhood first
No woman should have to climb alone. We build the kind of room where asking for help is normal and where someone always answers.
Purpose over performance
We are not interested in women performing success. We care about women finding work and lives that actually fit them.
Whole-person care
Ambition without wellbeing is a short road. Health, rest and mental wellness sit alongside career and enterprise, never behind them.
Celebrate out loud
Achievement that goes unnamed goes unnoticed. We say it plainly, in public, and we make an occasion of it.
Rise together in purpose
Built by women, for women
Every circle, workshop and gathering is run by people who remember needing it themselves.
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Meet the women behind SheRise
SheRise is carried by volunteers, mentors and organisers who give their time because they remember needing this themselves.
Needs your input. Send me names, roles and headshots for the team and I will build this out properly.
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