Creating Champions of Your Solutions with Serese Selanders
Mar 15, 2022
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Serese Selanders, CEO of SolusGuard, discusses creating champions for her safety solutions. She shares insights on navigating the startup world, securing government contracts, and empowering women entrepreneurs. Learn about her journey from the banking industry to entrepreneurship.
Building champions within organizations ensures successful deployment of safety solutions.
Deep dives
MasterCard Supporting Small Business Growth
MasterCard invests in tools to aid small business owners in expanding their businesses by enhancing sales through faster checkout times, widening customer bases, and exploring new opportunities for enhancing customer loyalty.
Startup Women Podcast's Return
The Startup Women podcast, hosted by Startup Canada's Kayla Isabel, is back on the Startup Podcast Network in a revamped format, focusing on challenges faced by Canadian women entrepreneurs. Monthly podcasts starting in March 2022 will feature female founders and industry experts, providing advice and knowledge to help women entrepreneurs overcome barriers in the business landscape.
Sarise Solanderz and Solus Guard
Sarise Solanderz, CEO of Solus Guard, a tech company specializing in workforce safety solutions, shares her journey from the financial services industry to accidental entrepreneurship. Solus Guard offers wearable panic buttons, check-in software, and safety solutions for individuals working in risky environments. With a focus on innovation and building end-to-end safety platforms for various businesses, Solus Guard aims to keep employees safe and continuously evolve to meet customer needs.
Championing Safety Solutions
Solus Guard emphasizes working with organizational champions to ensure successful deployment of safety solutions. By identifying key contacts within client companies and focusing on effective onboarding strategies, Solus Guard aims to empower organizations to maximize the benefits of their safety products. Collaboration with clients and a customer-centered approach are key elements in driving successful safety initiatives.
Serese is the CEO and Founder of SolusGuard, a tech company that offers a suite of workforce safety and lone worker protection solutions to help keep employees safe. From Employee Check In and Check Out software, to wearable panic buttons, Serese’s mission to keep employees safe at work hasn’t changed even though SolusGuard solutions have.
Prior to SolusGuard she worked for more than 20 years as a senior executive in the banking and financial services industry. She serves on the Board of the Saskatchewan Health Quality Council and is a fierce community advocate and mentor for numerous women-owned businesses. Serese holds an MBA and BA.
“I always looked for opportunities to interact and innovate with the government. They want to work with startups, the appetite is there.”
In this week’s episode of the #StartupPodcast, sponsored by Mastercard and Scotiabank, Serese Selanders shares why she knew building SolusGuard was important and how she creates champions of her product and solutions.