SPEAKER
Jenn Harper
Founder & CEO
Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics INC.
An award-winning social entrepreneur, Jenn Harper, is the founder and CEO of Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics INC. Cheekbone Beauty is a digitally native direct-to-consumer brand that is helping Indigenous youth see themselves in a beauty brand while using the concept of Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) in the brand's ethos and in developing products—creating a new segment in the beauty industry - Sustainable Socially Conscious Beauty.
Jennifer Harper has been making a name for herself in the beauty industry for several years but gained popularity quickly after being on the hit CBC show Dragons Den.
Cheekbone Beauty's mission is to help every Indigenous youth see and feel their enormous value in the world while creating sustainable cosmetics. In addition to Cheekbone's mission, Jenn strives to educate as many people as possible about the Residential School System's effects on generational trauma. She regularly speaks to university, college, and high school students and corporations and organizations about social entrepreneurship, empathy, and her First Nations family history.
Our Way Circle: Money as Medicine presented by Futurpreneur
In many Indigenous communities and cultures, we learn never to take more than we need. This value of taking only what we need means we often consider accumulating money and wealth to be greedy and wrong. In this circle, Indigenous entrepreneurs reframe money as medicine for families, communities and reclamation. Learn how to use money as medicine to benefit your community, the land and our collective wellbeing.
SOAR Circle: Consumer Goods Entrepreneurs
Join leading Indigenous entrepreneurs in the consumer products sector, ranging from cosmetics, bath and body, apparel to pets, as they share their entrepreneurial journeys, reflections and lessons in building a consumer product-based businesses.