In conversation with Wes Hall

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Hang onto your seat for this conversation with Wes Hall, his story is powerful and remarkable. You may recognize Wes Hall from your TV screen as an investor in CBC’s Dragons’ Den or in the news for his work fighting systematic racism. While he is now known as the “king of Bay Street, his story is not so linear. In his new memoir, No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot, Hall shares the gut wrenching and inspiring story of his life - from an impoverished childhood in Jamaica to becoming a leading Canadian business leader and entrepreneur. Buy the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/697265/no-bootstraps-when-youre-barefoot-by-wes-hall/9781039002371 More about Wes Hall: As the executive chairman and founder of Kingsdale Advisors, Wes Hall is one of North America's most influential powerbrokers and Canada's preeminent leader in shareholder advisory services, playing pivotal roles on multi-million and billion-dollar transactions for Air Canada, Xstrata, Citigroup, Tim Horton's, PetroCanada and many others. Hall is also the owner of QM Environmental, a leading national environmental and industrial services provider with over 450 employees, among other businesses. An instructor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, he teaches Black Entrepreneurship & Leadership, a first-of-its-kind course in North America; he is the founder of the anti-Black racism initiative, BlackNorth; and in October 2021 became one of the investors on the hit series Dragons’ Den. Watch it on YouTube: With love

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