Jamaican Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist Wes Corridor is on the shortlist for the 2023 Nationwide Enterprise E-book Awards for his memoir No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot: My Rise from a Jamaican Plantation Shack to the Boardrooms of Bay Avenue.
The $30,000 annual award acknowledges the most effective business-related writing and analysis in Canada.
The e book titled No Bootstraps When You’re Barefoot: My Rise from a Jamaican Plantation Shack to the Boardrooms of Bay Avenue follows Corridor’s private story about rising up in poverty in a house the place home violence was prevalent. The e book particulars how he overcame these challenges and trauma to attain private and monetary success, in addition to how he now makes use of his voice to advocate for social justice causes.
Corridor’s podcast, Between Us with Wes Corridor, options conversations on systemic racism with leaders of color. The founding father of the anti-Black racism
initiative, BlackNorth, he’s additionally one of many buyers on the hit TV sequence Dragon’s Den.
This previous October, Corridor informed his outstanding story from the rostrum at York College on receiving an honorary diploma, Physician of Legal guidelines, honoris causa.
The opposite books on the shortlist are Unprecedented: Canada’s Prime CEOs on Management Throughout COVID-19, and The Subsequent Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future.
Unprecedented: Canada’s Prime CEOs on Management Throughout COVID-19 is a sequence of essays that designate how Canada’s largest corporations survived the company world in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Subsequent Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future gives perception into the Financial institution of Canada from the previous Governor and skilled economist, Poloz.
The 2023 winner shall be chosen by an impartial jury and shall be introduced at an in-person occasion on Nov. 8.
Final 12 months’s winner was Billion Greenback Begin-up by Adam Miron, Sébastien St. Louis and Julie Beun.
Earlier winners embrace Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland, The Patch by Chris Turner and Viva MAC by Andrea Benoit.
