Location: Canada
Member Since:
Nov. 27, 2014
Marija Pavkovic-Tovissi
Biography
Marija Pavkovic-Tovissi
Inspired by her immigrant parents’ plight for education, at the age of twenty-one, Marija Pavkovic founded MaKami College, one of the largest Alberta-based private vocational colleges. A serial entrepreneur, Marija now sits on the board of directors for multiple companies and has been widely recognized for her business success. In 2014, MaKami was named #62 of Profit 500’s list of Canada’s Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies with Marija as its CEO, and Marija personally was named #66 of Canada’s Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs by Chatelaine Magazine and Profit W100. She has been nominated for both the Alberta Women Entrepreneur’s Celebration of Achievement Award and the Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and she won the Fierce Community Champion Award in 2014. In 2009, she co-founded an educational charity, QE Education Foundation. She is the co-author of multiple books focused on helping women succeed in business, and she mentors women in business, does speaking engagements internationally, but still remains an avid volunteer and philanthropist.
Inspired by her immigrant parents’ plight for education, at the age of twenty-one, Marija Pavkovic founded MaKami College, one of the largest Alberta-based private vocational colleges. A serial entrepreneur, Marija now sits on the board of directors for multiple companies and has been widely recognized for her business success. In 2014, MaKami was named #62 of Profit 500’s list of Canada’s Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies with Marija as its CEO, and Marija personally was named #66 of Canada’s Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs by Chatelaine Magazine and Profit W100. She has been nominated for both the Alberta Women Entrepreneur’s Celebration of Achievement Award and the Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and she won the Fierce Community Champion Award in 2014. In 2009, she co-founded an educational charity, QE Education Foundation. She is the co-author of multiple books focused on helping women succeed in business, and she mentors women in business, does speaking engagements internationally, but still remains an avid volunteer and philanthropist.
Where to find Marija Pavkovic-Tovissi online
Website: http://wbusiness.ca
Where to buy in print
Books
Skinny Business Start-Up
by Marija Pavkovic-Tovissi & Kamea Zelisko
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 11,050.
Language:
English.
Published: January 16, 2015
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Categories:
Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Women in business
Dreaming about starting a business but do not know where to begin? The Skinny Business Start-Up book covers traditional obstacles that many entrepreneurs face when attempting to follow their dreams and suggests a very successful "skinny business" methodology to overcoming those obstacles. No money, experience or connections? No problem, read on to the "skinny business" approach to dreaming big!