Katie Wilhelm
Designer and Consultant
Report Design Supporting Underrepresented Voices in Canada’s Chambers of Commerce
“Katie has always been a brilliantly intuitive and creative branding expert with many gifts within her ever-expanding toolkit. She’s worked in economic development (among many other industries) and has been an inspiring and award-winning independent solopreneur for many years. You are in good hands!”
This project is a report card on Canada’s Chambers of Commerce that aims to connect organizations and their projects with people from traditionally underrepresented groups.
Three university students from different parts of Canada came up with the methodology and have recommendations for the Chambers, Chamber provincial organizations, Chamber member businesses, DEI practitioners and researchers as well as policymakers.
From the Project’s Founder
This report was released by Radar Media Co. on November 8, 2022. The below is from their post on Linkedin:
“It started with a conversation with a rural Black woman entrepreneur and her experience with her local Chamber of Commerce. She simply asked to see herself represented on the chamber’s website. Her fight for visual representation lasted over 2 years.
Radar Media pitched a project to Venture for Canada’s Intrapreneurship program. The project looked to create a report card on Canada’s Chambers of Commerce. Venture for Canada connects organizations and their projects with students from traditionally underrepresented groups.
Three university students from different parts of Canada, came up with the methodology and have recommendations for the Chambers, Chamber provincial organizations, Chamber member businesses, DEI practitioners and researchers as well as policy makers. The students were asked to assess how included they felt in the organizations, imagining themselves looking for a professional business group to join and belong to.
Working together with these gifted young professionals was such a gift to me. Thank you Aisha Rob Cogie Cogan Jonathan Wiebe!
To say these students were an inspiration this summer is a huge understatement and the work of the incredible Indigenous designer and consultant Katie Wilhelm, RGD has been invaluable and such an honour.
You can find our first national report and a full list of chambers and their individual grades, at the Radar Media website.
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“The work of the incredible Indigenous designer and consultant Katie Wilhelm, RGD has been invaluable and such an honour.
I’ve known Katie Wilhelm for many years and have had the pleasure of working with her for my company’s branding and on a few research projects Radar Media has done. Katie has always been a brilliantly intuitive and creative branding expert with many gifts within her ever-expanding toolkit. She’s worked in economic development (among many other industries) and has been an inspiring and award-winning independent solopreneur for many years. You are in good hands!”