SEF Canada

Name: SEF Canada
Address: #2302 1225 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B1E6, CA
Telephone: +16047892450

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📊Entrepreneurial Development Program
💚 We assist communities to grow
♻️Creating sustainable Futures

The key to helping others lies in knowing not what they need but what they passionately want. Its aim has been to foster economic diversity by transforming local ideas and talents into viable enterprises. About Suzette McFaul

In 1999, Suzette became the first Enterprise Facilitator in British Columbia, her mandate was to assist people in starting their own business and help existing businesses expand within the City of New Westminster. She provided assistance ranging in size from small home based businesses to $12 million development projects. As an Enterprise Facilitator, she personally assisted over 105 new businesses with a success rate of over 90%. Today, those businesses are still going strong and she recalls the biggest rewards were helping entrepreneurs realize their dream. From there she turned to training others around the world on how to facilitate others. From the western chapters of the United States of America to England, Suzette then took her passion to ripple into other communities worldwide. From one community to five dozens it became about so much more than the small city she first began with; it became about uniting passion and business in every individual across the globe.

10/08/2026

Hace unas semanas, tuvimos una visita muy especial a las comunidades aledañas a San agustin Heliostar Metals en Durango, enfocada en el trabajo comunitario que están impulsando en la región.

Queremos agradecer a todo el equipo de Heliostar por su energía y dedicación y sobre todo a la comunidad por el recibimiento. Gracias a ese esfuerzo, hoy contamos con un grupo de voluntarios listo para seguir construyendo una mejor comunidad.

Cuando las empresas y las comunidades trabajan juntas, el impacto es real. 🙌

A few weeks ago, we had a very special visit to the communities surrounding San Agustín, Heliostar in Durango, focused on the community work they're driving in the region.

We want to thank the entire Heliostar team for their energy and dedication, and above all the community for their warm welcome. Thanks to that effort, we now have a group of volunteers ready to keep building a better community.

When companies and communities work together, the impact is real. 🙌

09/30/2026

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation | September 30

Today, SEF pauses to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

We believe allyship is not a single day or a single gesture. It is an ongoing practice of listening, learning, and taking action alongside Indigenous communities all year long.

That commitment is close to home for us. We're proud that four of the people on our small team are Indigenous. Their voices, knowledge, and leadership shape who we are and how we work. We aim to practise what we preach, every day.

Today, our team is wearing orange to show respect and to affirm that Every Child Matters. 🧡

We invite you to join us: wear orange, learn whose traditional territory you're on and support Indigenous-led organizations and businesses.

09/24/2026

🌎 ¡Conoce a Karina, parte de nuestro equipo de habla hispana en SEF!

En SEF, sabemos que la mejor atención es la que se entiende sin barreras. Por eso, contamos con un equipo que habla tu idioma y entiende tu contexto.

Karina está a cargo del marketing y coordina las comunicaciones con países de habla hispana.

👉 Si prefieres comunicarte en español, ella y su equipo están para ayudarte.

¿Quieres saber más? Escríbenos en los comentarios o contáctanos.

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🌎 Meet Karina, part of our Spanish-speaking team at SEF!

At SEF, we know the best support is the kind that's understood without barriers. That's why we have a team that speaks your language and understands your context.

Karina leads Marketing and coordinates communications with spanish-speaking countries.

👉 If you'd rather communicate in Spanish, she and her team are here to help.

Want to know more? Message us in the comments or reach out to us.

09/17/2026

🌎 Big news at SEF Canada.
For years, we've worked side by side with mining companies and communities across Latin America: in Ecuador, Mexico, and beyond.
That's why we're proud to introduce our Spanish-speaking team: Karina, Carolina, and Javier.
Over the coming weeks, we'll be sharing more about each of them and their experience, their work in the region, and what drives them.
If your company is doing business in Latin America and you're looking for a partner who speaks the language, literally and otherwise, let's talk.

🌎 Grandes noticias en SEF Canada.

Durante años, hemos trabajado de manera cercana a empresas mineras y comunidades en toda América Latina: en Ecuador, México y más allá.

Por eso nos enorgullece presentar a nuestro equipo de habla hispana: Karina, Carolina y Javier.

En las próximas semanas, compartiremos más sobre cada uno de ellos, su experiencia, su trabajo en la región y lo que los motiva.

Si tu empresa hace negocios en América Latina y buscas un socio que hable el idioma, literal y culturalmente, hablemos.

09/11/2026

SEF makes sure that everyone has the opportunity to participate, that’s why we do the things the way we do.

That’s the key of our success: We actually listen and care about the community.

Based in philosophy and psychology our methodology has been proven all over the world.

We are ready to transform your community.

09/03/2026

Entrepreneurial development is capitalism. I'm done being subtle about it.

Mining companies write cheques and feel good. Fund a school, build a road, hire locally — and when the mine closes, all of it disappears with it. It was never designed to last.

The alternative isn't charity with better branding. It's building a real market — ownership, capital access, the tools to build a business — in communities that have never had the chance before. And the data is not close: communities where markets take root outperform communities that receive aid alone, because a market compounds and a cheque doesn't.

When we go into communities, we actually create capitalists, entrepreneurs who are doing it for themselves. And we found actually this works in very poor communities where systems don't have the ability to help themselves. This way, they can help themselves.

Here's the part people miss: capitalism, built right, is equal. A market doesn't ask what you look like, where you're from, or what school you went to. It asks one question — can you create value? That question has no bias. Systems can. Which is why the methodology matters — build the on-ramp so it actually reaches the people who've been locked out, and you get the most equalizing tool available.

Some commentators write that the spread of capitalism has been the single most important factor in alleviating global poverty and raising worldwide standards of living. In the 200 years since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution—when global capitalism arguably entered its modern phase—the share of the world population living in extreme poverty has fallen from 94% to less than 10%.)

Not capitalism instead of equity. Capitalism as equity.

That's the work. That's entrepreneurial development.

08/27/2026

EMPOWERMENT PATHWAYS

Kindness doesn't ask who deserves it.

At Empowerment Pathways, we bring entrepreneurial development into federal correctional institutions — because the capacity to build something, to dream past a sentence, doesn't disappear behind a wall.

When we sit with someone and believe in their idea before they believe in it themselves, something shifts. Not just in them — in us. Kindness offered without condition has a way of returning tenfold, in the form of purpose, dignity, and a second chance built on a person's own skill.

This is what person-centered work looks like in practice: not charity, but genuine belief in human potential, wherever we find it.

Proud to deliver this work in partnership with Three Sisters Consulting — two years success and counting.

08/14/2026

Boom, bust, or something better?

British Columbia is facing another mill closure — and with it, the familiar fear that ripples through a resource-dependent community: layoffs, families uprooted, local businesses gutted, a town left to absorb the shock.
It doesn't have to go this way.

The window before closure is the most valuable time we have. That's when a community can start building what comes next — not waiting for a new employer to arrive, but growing its own: entrepreneurs starting businesses, workers becoming employers, a local economy that doesn't rise and fall with a single industry.

At SEF Canada, this is exactly the work we do — entrepreneurial development that helps people turn a layoff into a launching point, and helps a community build an economy that can sustain itself long after the mine or mill is gone.
We don't have to keep repeating the boom-bust cycle. We can plan for it — before it happens.

08/06/2026

Communities Coming Together: The Psychology We Build On
Long before "social licence" was a line item in a mining feasibility study, psychologist Carl Rogers identified the three conditions that make any relationship trustworthy: empathy, acceptance, and the willingness to be met without judgment.
He was talking about therapy rooms. We've found the same conditions hold true in community halls, band offices, and kitchen tables across six continents.
Most companies enter a community with a project plan. We've learned to enter with a question instead — because the relationship has to come before the request.
That's the thinking behind everything we teach in our community engagement training, from the Kitchen Table Principle to Two-Eyed Seeing:

You don't earn trust by presenting. You earn it by listening first.

Acceptance isn't agreement — it's making room for a community's own priorities before introducing yours.

Empathy isn't a soft skill on the agenda. It's the only thing that makes the rest of the agenda land.
Rogers believed people have their own capacity for growth — that the work isn't to direct them, but to create the conditions where that growth happens on its own terms. Communities are no different. They don't need to be managed into agreement. They need to be met as partners with their own expertise about their own future.

We never go uninvited. And once invited, we show up the same way Rogers asked his clients to show up for each other — present, honest, and without conditions on who deserves to be heard.
That's not a community relations tactic. That's just how trust gets built.

07/30/2026

The Psychology Behind Empowerment Pathways

Every person we work with inside a correctional institution has already been judged. By the system, by the headlines, often by themselves. What they haven't always had is someone sit across the table and ask: what do you want to build?
That question only works if it's asked without conditions attached.
So our training — for our team and for the institutions we partner with — spends real time on this, because it's not soft skills. It's the mechanism:
Acceptance before assessment
Empathy before strategy
Being met as a person before being treated as a case file
Rogers wrote that when someone discovers they're respected for who they are, not who they're pretending to be, they begin to believe they deserve that respect. That belief is where a business plan becomes possible. Where a release date becomes a start date instead of an ending.

We've watched it happen. A person who has spent years being defined by a sentence starts being defined by what they're building instead.
That's not a program outcome. That's a human one.

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#2302 1225 Richards Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B1E6

Telephone

+16047892450

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http://www.sefcanada.com/

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