About

Our Mission

SWAN serves as an organization that unites, supports and promotes entrepreneurs, managers and professional women to work together, share resources and build relationships on both a personal and business level. We provide an opportunity for those women who want to take command of their personal and professional futures by developing contacts through networking.

Our Purpose

To bring together a diverse group of professional women and to provide a welcome environment for sharing common career goals and social concerns.

Our Goals

To empower women to grow both personally and professionally successful through the many opportunities that networking provides.

To provide quality programs and initiatives that support SWAN’s mission, purpose and goals.

To strengthen SWAN’s organizational structure to better serve SWAN members.

Our Strategies

Participation in a variety of community programs and initiatives, SWAN’s members come together to foster empowerment and advancement for women.

Educational seminars, workshops and social events that support development, growth and business connections.

SWAN’s web site, newsletters and electronic publications, the provision of editorial content, networking and events, members are able to leverage their membership to pursue individual empowerment and advancement.

Our History

SWAN was launched in North Vancouver, BC in 1994 as the “Business Women’s Community Network” by Monika Kelly. The organization changed its name to “Successful Women Always Network” and Cathy Kuzel, with a group of like-minded visionary women, built SWAN into the organization we have today. SWAN is completely volunteer-run.

SWAN – THE women’s network to belong to.