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Read more about the article The Founder’s Advent Calendar: 24 Days to a Stronger 2026 (Week 1 – Reflections)

The Founder’s Advent Calendar: 24 Days to a Stronger 2026 (Week 1 – Reflections)

  • Post published:December 9, 2025
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Most Advent calendars give you chocolate. Ours gives you a roadmap. December is a strange month for founders. It’s a chaotic mix of holiday parties, family obligations, and the mad…

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Read more about the article 5 ways an immigration lawyer can help with your LMIA

5 ways an immigration lawyer can help with your LMIA

  • Post published:March 7, 2024
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By: Nastaran Roushan An immigration lawyer can play a crucial role in ensuring the success of a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) application or LMIA-exempt application providing expert guidance and…

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Read more about the article Minimising Claims Costs for Schedule 2 Employers in Ontario: Expert Tips from a Workers’ Compensation Law Firm

Minimising Claims Costs for Schedule 2 Employers in Ontario: Expert Tips from a Workers’ Compensation Law Firm

  • Post published:June 13, 2023
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By: Samantha Seabrook As a Schedule 2 employer in Ontario, managing claims costs is vital to safeguard the financial well-being of your organisation. You pay dollar-for-dollar the costs of a…

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Read more about the article <strong>Ontario Labour Movement Proves It Is a Force to Be Reckoned With</strong>

Ontario Labour Movement Proves It Is a Force to Be Reckoned With

  • Post published:November 11, 2022
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By: Karina Pogosyan Last week, our firm published an article about the Ford government’s decision to pass Bill 28 back to work legislation, effectively removing CUPE education workers’ right to…

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Read more about the article <strong>Bill 28 and the Right to Strike</strong>

Bill 28 and the Right to Strike

  • Post published:November 4, 2022
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Samantha Seabrook and Rebecca Meharchand  We are management-side labour and employment lawyers. Always have been. However, as lawyers, we first must be true to the rule of law, and in…

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Read more about the article The Substratum Doctrine (Start-Ups – this one’s for you)

The Substratum Doctrine (Start-Ups – this one’s for you)

  • Post published:October 31, 2022
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By Samantha Seabrook A growing organization means lots of changes, re-jigging positions, moving people around the org chart, and quickly expanding roles. Hey, that’s how you create an agile, competitive,…

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Read more about the article A (Toxic) Star is Born: Why High Performers Shouldn’t Get a Pass on Toxic Behaviour

A (Toxic) Star is Born: Why High Performers Shouldn’t Get a Pass on Toxic Behaviour

  • Post published:October 26, 2022
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By: Rebecca Meharchand and Samantha Seabrook What is a “Toxic Star”? Every industry has its key players and high performers. But there are some in which high employee performance somehow…

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Read more about the article What is the “Right to Disconnect”?

What is the “Right to Disconnect”?

  • Post published:October 22, 2022
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By: Samantha Seabrook and Rebecca Meharchand Earlier this year, Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Monte McNaughten announced that Ontario was implementing a “right to disconnect” from work…

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Don’t wait for the crash. Build the support now. Don’t wait for the crash. Build the support now.

Day 21 of the Founder Advent Calendar. 🎄

How many of us are actively optimizing the most critical asset in the entire business? You and your mental and emotional energy!

You cannot grow an exceptional business when you are operating on an overwhelmed, anxious empty tank.

So, don't wait until you are in crisis or burned out.

Having your mental and emotional health supported before the chaos of the new year begins is the single biggest boost you can give yourself to grow the business.

Today is about setting those structures up.

📕 Start therapy "just because." Structured maintenance is better than crisis management. 📕 Find a coach or mentor. Someone to challenge your perspective. 📕 Journal daily. Clear the noise in your head before the work begins.

You need a strong, resilient foundation to build a great business. 

Swipe through for a few ways to build your support structure today.

👇 Advent Calendar Challenge: 👇

What is ONE mental or emotional support upgrade you are committing to putting in place before Jan 1st?

#FounderAdventCalendar #MentalHealth #LeadershipDevelopment #FounderLife #SelfCare #Entrepreneurship #PersonalGrowth #ProactiveLeadership
Yesterday, we talked about kindness to others. Tod Yesterday, we talked about kindness to others. Today, we’re turning that lens inward.

Day 19  of the Founder’s Advent Calendar 🎄 - The Hardest Kind of Kindness

Self-kindness isn’t just about cutting yourself some slack.
True self-kindness is having the courage to look in the mirror and be self-critical. It’s loving yourself enough to refuse to stay stagnant. To reach your next stage of development, you have to identify the barrier standing in your way.

You need to find “The Big Thing.” Maybe it’s:
 * “Why do I always see the negative first?”
 * “Why do I snap when I’m busy?”
 * “Why am I avoiding the hard conversations?”

Ignoring these habits isn’t being kind to yourself; it’s holding you back.

🔥 The Challenge
Take 10 minutes today. Sit in silence. Identify the one big internal trait you need to change to level up in 2024.

Brave enough to share? Drop your “Big Thing” in the comments. Or, if you want to keep it private, just comment “Done” to let us know you did the work.

#FoundersAdventCalendar #FounderGrowth #SelfReflection #LeadershipDevelopment #GrowthMindset StartupLife SelfKindness
Stop being "Nice." Start being "Kind." Day 18 of Stop being "Nice." Start being "Kind."

Day 18 of the Founder Advent Calendar. 🎄

We all want a pleasant workplace. We want people to get along. So, we strive to be "nice." But "Nice" is about avoiding friction. It’s about smiling through a meeting when you actually disagree. It’s about softening feedback so much that the point is lost, just so you don't hurt someone’s feelings.

"Nice" prioritizes comfort over truth.

This leads to unclear instructions, vague communications, and dissatisfied managers and staff. This is where an employee thinks they are doing a great job because their manager is too "nice" to correct them. Then, six months later, they are fired for poor performance. 

Kindness is different. Kindness is rooted in caring about the person enough to tell them the truth. Kindness is saying, "I believe you can do better than this, so I’m going to be honest about where this work is falling short."

Clear is kind. 

👇 Advent Calendar Challenge: 👇
Think about a time in your career when a boss gave you kind feedback that was hard to hear, but was exactly what you needed.

Share that moment of "Kindness" in the comments.

#FounderAdventCalendar #Leadership #ManagementTips #RadicalCandor #CompanyCulture #Feedback #GrowthMindset #Kindness
You don’t need a "chill" culture. You need a coher You don’t need a "chill" culture. You need a coherent one.

Day 17 of the Founder's Advent Calendar. 🎄

We’re talking this week about Building Belonging, and today we need to talk about the quickest way to destroy it: An incoherent story about your company culture - the bait and switch.

I see this happen a lot. A founder who wants to attract talent, pitches the company as a "relaxed, balanced family environment." They talk about flexibility and vibes.

But the reality inside of the company is a grinding environment, that is high-pressure, perfectionist, and demands long hours.

The incoherent stories leave people feeling lied to, which destroys belonging. 

To be clear: I am not telling you to have a chill workplace. If your mission requires obsession, late nights, and intense scrutiny, that is completely okay. Some of the best companies in the world are intense. 

I just ask that if you are building a team of Navy SEALs, don’t put up a sign for Summer Camp. 

People will sign up for a challenging job if they know what they are getting into. They will bond over the challenge. They will find belonging in the shared struggle. But if you sell them "balance" and demand "obsession," you break the social contract on Day 1.

Belonging requires coherence. Your external story needs to match your internal reality.

👇 Advent Calendar Challenge: 👇
Take 10 minutes today to look at your job descriptions and your website.
Does the story you are telling the world match the reality of a Tuesday afternoon in your office? If not, don’t change the office. Start changing the story.
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#FounderAdventCalendar #CompanyCulture hashtag#HiringTips #Leadership hashtag#Authenticity #StartupLife hashtag#BuildingBelonging #FounderAdvice
Your "Open Door" policy might be the problem. Thi Your "Open Door" policy might be the problem.

This is Day 16 of the Founder Advent Calendar. 🎄

We love to say we have an open-door policy. We tell our teams, "You can come to me with anything." And we genuinely mean it.

But we often forget that power creates distance.

Walking into a founder’s office to give critical feedback is terrifying for most employees. It feels unsafe, so they stay quiet. Then we interpret that silence as "everything is fine”... but often there is great feedback, good constructive criticism, waiting out there in your team that you will never hear.

If you want your team to actually feel like they belong, you can’t wait for them to work up the courage to walk through your door. You have to go to them. You have to prove that you value their perspective more than your own ego.

The trick is to stop asking vague questions like, "How’s it going?" or "Do you have any feedback?" Those are too broad. They put people on the spot. Instead, get specific about your performance and the environment you're creating.

Try asking these questions in your next 1-on-1:
"What is the one thing I need to STOP doing because it slows you down?"
“What is one thing I need to START doing to make your job easier?”
“What is one thing we should CONTINUE doing because it works really well?”

When you ask a question that is specific…and then actually act on the answer…the dynamic changes. You stop being the boss on a pedestal and start being a partner in their success.

That’s how you build belonging - not by saying your door is open, but by walking out of it to listen.

👇 Advent Calendar Challenge: 👇
Don't wait for reviews. Ask one team member today: "What is one thing that makes your job harder than it needs to be?"

Let me know what you find out.

#ManagementTips #OpenDoorPolicy #LeadershipDevelopment #WorkplaceCulture #TeamBuilding #StartupLife #FounderMindset #ListeningSkills #HRTips #CultureWins #FounderAdventCalendar
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