| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, December 4, 2013 | 3:30PM - 6:00PM | External Event, Sidney Smith Hall 100 St. George Street Room 2117 |
Global Ideas Institue Experts Series
Norm Tasevski is a co-founder and partner with Purpose Capital, and leads the firm’s business development efforts. Norm has spent his career working with and for impact-minded for-profit, non-profit and government organizations. Prior to Purpose Capital, Norm was a Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence with the Social Innovation Generation (SiG) program at MaRS, where he advised a portfolio of approximately 30 innovation-minded social organizations in topics ranging from business model refinement to investment readiness. As a management consultant with Aperio, Norm managed a portfolio of social enterprises, advising each from idea generation to initial market entry and capital acquisition. Norm’s career began as a policy advisor with the province of Ontario, leading multiple social policy portfolios involving social assistance, social housing, immigrant sponsorship, accessibility services and youth services. Norm left government as a senior policy advisor to join EVIDENCE, a social enterprise consulting firm of First Work. There, Norm helped build the consulting practice and managed over a dozen client projects. Norm then moved to become Managing Director with York Consulting Group where he led the business development effort and oversaw a team of up to 12 consultants.
Norm holds an MBA from the Schulich Business School, where he also teaches social entrepreneurship and impact investing at both the MBA and BBA levels. Norm also teaches social entrepreneurship to MEng students out of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto, and frequently guest lectures in other schools such as the University of Waterloo, Ryerson University and Queen’s University. Norm teaches social entrepreneurship and impact investing at the University of Toronto and the Schulich Business School. Norm currently volunteers with two organizations. As Chairman of the Board of the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, Norm leverages his entrepreneurial background as the organization pursues the development of its own social enterprise. Norm is also a partner with Social Venture Partners Toronto, an organization that focuses on non-profit capacity building and growing the community of philanthropists in Toronto.
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