Our Stories

We – a female-founded and -led team of mostly women – are all for taking the time to celebrate the accomplishments and the potential of women.

On February 21, Kathleen Reid, Switchboard’s Managing Director, had the pleasure of attending the BC Provincial budget lock-up, where Finance Minister Carole James introduced the 2018-19 provincial budget and three-year fiscal plan.

As a woman-led (not women-only) business, we at Switchboard hold International Women’s Day in high regard.

After two years as Kathleen Reid Consulting, it became clear that we had outgrown our name. We’d evolved into a team too dynamic, too diversely talented to work under a single person’s name.

In October, KRC celebrated its two-year anniversary. In February, we rebranded as Switchboard. Both anniversaries and rebrands are occasions for reflection, so I’ve been reflecting a lot in these momentous few months.

If you know me, you’ve probably noticed that I sometimes wear glasses. You may also have seen me, glasses or no glasses, squinting to see something on a page or a screen.

Here at Switchboard, we love to try out new apps — particularly ones that help us tell stories.

Love her or hate her (and we don’t know how on earth you could hate her), Taylor Swift could teach us all a thing or two about effective

Last week the Switchboard team welcomed a new addition: Hogan, a rescue puppy and our new mascot.

At Switchboard, we’ve been expanding our knowledge-base in this field so we were excited to learn more about how combining purpose, profit and technology can be a catalyst for positive change and rapid business growth.