| Gina Mollicone-Long |
 Gina
Mollicone-Long is a one woman powerhouse who has spent the last
15 years trail-blazing new paths for the modern female entrepreneur.
She is the best-selling author of The Secret of Successful Failing.
Her breadth of business experience ranges from big corporate to
start-from-scratch entrepreneur; from high tech to not-for-profit.
In each and every endeavor, personal or professional, Gina brings
her ferocious energy and her firm belief that the "impossible"
is always possible.
Gina lives her beliefs. Her outside-the-mold career started with
an Honours Engineering degree from the University of Toronto.
From there, was a non-linear leap to the corporate world, in brand
management roles starting at Procter & Gamble and leading
to Molson Breweries, where as Brand Manager she re-directed the
brand and company culture. Next up was a senior strategic role
with the NRG group, a high tech venture capital firm, where Gina
worked in a fast-paced environment to help channel passion into
entrepreneurial technology businesses. Her work with non-profits
included being the Executive Director for proMOTION plus, which
advocates gender equity in physical activity for girls and women
as well as serving on various boards and committees.
During this time, she simultaneously launched her first business,
Goddess Concepts, a company that focuses on empowering women and
teen girls to "live their true life". Goddess Concepts
helps organizations and individuals understand and leverage the
unique perspective of girls and women.
In 2000, with her husband Andrew Long she co-founded two multi-national
companies that focus on putting the employee first. Critical Pathfinders
Adventure Training is a corporate team building and training company
and Scavenger Hunt Anywhere runs corporate team building events
in cities all over North America. Their Fortune 500 clients include
companies such as The Body Shop, Microsoft and KPMG among many
others.
Her latest endeavour includes promoting her best-selling book
called The Secret of Successful Failing where Gina shows how failure
is one of the greatest things that could ever happen to anyone
and how to use it to get anything at all. The book went to a #1
spot on Amazon the day that it was launched worldwide.
Since Gina believes that nothing is impossible she constantly
sets herself challenges to overcome. For instance, she managed
to get her self-described "anti-runner's" body over
the finish line at the Nike Women's marathon in San Francisco
(6 hours and 9 minutes of "challenges" but she did it!),
conquered a long time fear of heights by plummeting earthward
in one of the highest bungee jumps in the world and envisioned,
planned and held her first girls conference called Planet Girl.
She manages all of this while being mom to her energetic children
Molly and Simon, who have inherited their mom's enthusiasm and
exuberance. She has also been a Big Sister since 1997.
There is no straight line with Gina; all of her varied experiences
have shaped her unique perspective as an entrepreneur, speaker
and human being. Being in Gina's presence is to feel the unstoppable
force of her passion, excitement and most of all her ardent belief
that others can achieve their "imPOSSIBLE" too.
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