| 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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