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Video: ‘Beyond the Family Business’ with Iqbal Kassam, founder of EQ Bank, on his incredible journey to success
‘Entrepreneurs look for patterns of opportunities. They’re seeking, they’re looking, they’re validating,’ says Kassam
Beyond the Family Business is one of the most thoughtful and engaging podcasts about family enterprise in Canada. In every episode, Luke Hansen-MacDonald, a second-generation family business leader goes beyond the headlines with other leaders in family businesses and family offices to explore lessons they have learned, their successes and their challenges.
In this episode, Luke sits down with Iqbal Kassam, founder of EQ Bank. He walks through his remarkable journey to the UK and to Canada—where he started EQ Bank, which today is the seventh-largest bank in the country.
It was our most popular video of the week.
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Joé Harvey, co-founder of Femmes en Santé, on improving women’s health through policy, collaboration and sheer will
‘Impact comes from bringing together people who usually operate in different spheres: clinical practice, policy, finance, innovation and corporate leadership. When those perspectives meet, new ideas emerge and collaborations form that would not otherwise happen.’
Women’s health has long been perceived as a niche issue—with conditions from menopause to PMS, migraines and endometriosis underfunded and under researched. But the conversation is starting to shift, with many recognizing that working to close the gap in women’s healthcare will not only improve outcomes and drive societal transformation, but represents a major economic opportunity — in terms of potential global GDP growth and the commercial market for new products and services, says the McKinsey Health Institute and the World Economic Forum.
Joé Harvey noticed these issues firsthand during a decade building Cyclone Santé, a Québec-based company specializing in independent medical evaluations and tailored health expertise services for businesses, insurers and government agencies, which was acquired in 2022 by ExamWorks Canada.
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