Build a business that delivers redemptive impact.
The CRE is proud to launch the ‘Venture Builder’ Learning Series. All the needed foundation you’d find in a business program, anchored in a redemptive worldview–the first of its kind in Canada.
We aim to equip aspiring faith-driven entrepreneurs with business knowledge that’s grounded in biblical principles, so that their ventures are built to effect Kingdom change and bless the community.
6 Modules / 18 Hours:
Please fill out the interest form, we will notify you when registration opens.
Program Highlights:
Redemptive Worldview Framework: Apply insight from biblical narratives to business planning, operation, and decision-making.
Essential Business Knowledge: Gain all necessary knowledge to start and run a business.
Actionable Learning: Understand and implement a practical framework for launching a business.
Community and Networking: Connect with peers for support, sharing ideas and collaboration.
Key Learning in Each Module:
Redemptive Essentials – This first module is the core and aims to prepare you with the Redemptive mindset as the grounding philosophy so that you can view all areas of your venture through a redemptive lens.
Vision, Mission, Values – Establishing the ‘why, what, how’ of the venture, ensuring that the foundation is redemptive in nature.
Market Validation – Looking beyond the product/service you want to launch, to address needs in the market with redemptive solutions.
Sales & Marketing – Communicating and selling in ways that are relevant and compelling, delivering value to customers that is not solely driven by monetary gain.
Operations & Finance – Setting processes and structures that establish a healthy and sustainable organization, allowing the business to live out its redemptive purpose.
Team Development & Management – Building individuals and teams up in a culture that allows them to flourish, even as they work.
Meet Our Instructors
Hannah Lau
Founder, Principal Consultant
Astera Asia
Lecturer, Entrepreneurial Marketing
University of Waterloo
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Hannah Lau was born and raised in Canada and has built a truly international career, including 15 years spent overseas, with the most recent 9 years running her own consulting business, Astera Asia.
As a Christian entrepreneur, she specializes in guiding small-size firms from the ideation stage to startup, all the way to scale-ups, applying a redemptive lens to every aspect. Hannah works collaboratively with founders to ensure their ventures have a strong foundation for overall organizational health. She will look at everything from strategy (biz planning, value prop/positioning) and organizational development (organizational structure, capacity building) to operations and marketing/communications, making sure a venture is set up for success.
With experience working in communications and consulting agencies and as a founder herself, Hannah draws experience from a diverse background of contexts and client sectors. She has worked with 160+ small businesses and is a lecturer at the University of Waterloo for entrepreneurial marketing. Hannah is a perennial pioneer and is always ready to help build, fix, and change.
Philip Yan
Founding Director
Centre for Redemptive Entrepreneurship
Founder, Chief Experience Designer
GenesisXD
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Philip Yan is the founding director of the Centre for Redemptive Entrepreneurship (CRE) at Tyndale University. The vision for the CRE is to equip Christian entrepreneurs as culture-shaping catalysts in advancing their redemptive ventures.
Philip is also the founder and chief experience designer of GenesisXD Inc. He connects the dots between brand, experience design and technology. His strategic consultation has proven successful in many turnkey initiatives for financial and educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and not-for-profits. As a two-time social entrepreneur, Philip led his company to cofound social enterprises to employ persons with barriers to employment, including a recycling company, Red Propeller and KLINK® Coffee, to re-integrate former offenders into society.
Philip sees the critical value of addressing service gaps with an entrepreneurial mindset that aligns with his conviction of the common calling.
