Venture For Canada

WHY DID YOU WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH VENTURE FOR CANADA?

I wanted to be around entrepreneurs, around the thinking, doing, creating, flailing, failing and flying. It is interesting, inspiring, and energizing to be in the presence of the curious, ambitious and brilliant minds attracted to the programs VFC offers.

WHAT’S THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE YOU’VE BEEN GIVEN?

I will never forget where I was when this lightning bolt hit me squarely between the eyes. I was in my early twenties, sitting in a bland training room (front left, second row) participating in a leadership development course. The facilitator made this simple, but powerful assertion:

“The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the lives of those around you”.

Whoah. For my life to be great, I had to take my eye off of me and focus on others. I loved this idea and loathed it, in equal measure. But it completely changed how I think of my role in my communities. I’m no saint, but I do engage with the world in a very different way than I did before.

MORE ABOUT BRUCE

Bruce Sellery is the CEO of Credit Canada, the long-standing non-profit credit counselling agency in the country. He is also the Money Expert for the lifestyle TV show Cityline, has a weekly, national money column for CBC Radio, and hosts a weekly radio show on personal finance for SiriusXM.

Prior to his role at Credit Canada, Bruce was a commentator for CBC Television’s The Exchange, wrote a column for MoneySense Magazine, hosted Million Dollar Neighbourhood on the Oprah Winfrey Network and was a sought-after keynote speaker on personal finance. He also consulted to major financial institutions on innovation in financial literacy.
Bruce has written two Globe & Mail bestselling books including, “Moolala: Why smart people do dumb things with money (and what you can do about it)” and spent a decade as an anchor for BNN Bloomberg in Toronto and New York City.

He serves on the Advisory Board of the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, his alma mater. He is an alumnus of the Governor General’s Leadership Conference, former Chair of Friends of Adoption Options, and former President of the Canadian Club of Toronto.

Bruce lives with his husband and daughter in Toronto.