vicki saunders

Vicki is a serial social entrepreneur and a passionate catalyst for the development of many companies focused on doing well by doing good. She co-founded KidsNRG, the leading catalyst for youth marketing and entrepreneurship in 1997 and took it public on the Toronto Stock Exchange as The NRG Group in 2000. In 2002, Vicki co-founded Impactanation, an organization dedicated to increasing awareness and inspiring entrepreneurial action in young people around the themes of environment, health and social justice. In early 2004, Impactanation launched The Impact Fund in partnership with the Tides Foundation to support youth action in their own communities. In 2007 Vicki founded Zazengo, an online platform that aggregated sustainability actions and their resulting impact for organizations and campaigns for Fortune 100 clients including; J&J;, Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Kodak along with leading non-profits and campaigns. Vicki was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum for 2001. She has been featured as a speaker at hundreds of events in North America from business schools to Boards of Trade to Women of Influence series. She is a passionate mentor to hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world, Founding Board Member on the Ontario Organization of Women in International Trade, Founder of the GirlsAreIT! Program and the She-EO Competition: a National Internet Business Plan Contest for Young Women Entrepreneurs. She holds a Masters in Soviet Foreign Policy from the University of Toronto.