Greater Vancouver 2025
FUEL THe
PASSION
The Entrepreneurial Spirit League is a group of scholarship competitions that are the "community passion project"
of local Vancouver entrepreneurs.
AMBITION - TENACITY - COMPASSION - RESILIENCE - COURAGE - CREATIVITY - GENEROSITY
AUTHENTICITY - HONESTY - RESPECT - HUMILITY - DISCIPLINE - RELIABILITY - TRUST - GRATITUDE
ADAPTABILITY - CURIOSITY - BELIEF - WISDOM - HOPE - OPENNESS - HOPE
CONFIDENCE -JOY - PATIENCE - LOYALTY - FAIRNESS - KINDNESS
HOW IT
WorKS
The League has two stages; "The Competitions" and "The Finals", including a
red-carpet award ceremony.
1. The Competitions
LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS CREATE A COMPETITION
Purpose-Driven Companies from Greater Vancouver apply to join the Entrepreneurial Spirit League as an Industry Champion to demonstrate their commitment to their community by developing a scholarship competition related to their industry.
Each Industry Champion gets to partner in creating a competition using the Leagues standard format. This group of local businesses make up The Entrepreneurial Spirit League.
Each aims to craft a competition that reflects the passion of their enterprise, inspiring its student competitors to be the next generation of positive force in their industry and community - and providing the funds to do so.
INDUSTRY CHAMPIONS PICK THEIR TOP SUBMISSIONS
Every Industry Champion commits to increasing their competitions' prize pool alongside the growth of their business. This way, the more we support our champions businesses, the greater the benefit to our community. The mandatory minimum prize pools for each competition are...
student's prize pool for each Competition
1st Place
$500+
+ a ticket to finals!
2nd Place
$300+
3rd Place
$200+
*Minimum mandatory prize pool amounts and distribution. Actual awards may be larger or reward more than the top 3 places.
EACH INDUSTRY CHAMPION SENDS THEIR FIRST PLACE WINNER TO THE FINALS
Each Finalist works with their Industry Champion to compete for an even greater reward against the other Finalists.
2. The FINALS
PITCH YOUR PASSION
Target Prize pool
$10,000
Each Industry Champion prepares their one Finalist to give a "TedTalk-Style" PASSIONPITCH on stage at a live-event for an even larger prize.
In this professionally recorded live-event, students deliver a PassionPitch to a panel of judges, an audience of fellow competitors, university scholarship scouts, news media outlets, friends, family and other Industry Champions.
Our aim is to create an unforgettable and formative experience for our future leaders to launch the next stage of their life with confidence earned through genuine passion and courage.
PASSIONPITCH PREPARATION
A PassionPitch is a 5-10 minute keynote presentation teaching the audience the lessons learned about their passion from their Industry Champion's competition. Finalists learn how to compose and deliver there own pitch in a course taught free of charge by the host of the league - Vancouver executive training provider, Legatis Executive Partners INC.
(More details on in-kind rewards for Industry Champions coming soon!)
June 2025
Award Ceremony
Finalists and their supporters will attend this red-carpet award ceremony where the winners will be revealed along with the final prize amounts. All finalists and their Industry Champions will be celebrated for their passion, creativity, courage and commitment to fueling the passions that drive our community in a positive direction.
Our News & Media Partners will be invited to photograph and report on the event.
1st Place
$5,000
2nd Place
$3,000
[Target PRIZE POOL amounts]
3rd Place
$2,000
During the ceremony, we will give our thanks to every Industry Champion, sponsor and partner who made the innaugurual Greater Vancouver 2025 Entrepreneurial Spirit League possible. We will share our vision for the scale of impact we aim to achieve in the world, and how we will get there.
The Finalist whose PassionPitch won First Place and their Industry Champion will be crowned Entrepreneurial Spirit League Community Champions. In addition to other rewards, two custom trophies/plaques will be awarded, one for the finalist to hang at home and the other for their Champion to hang at their office.
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR EARLY Client SPONSORS WHO got US THIS FAR
CEO, CAM DAVID
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CEO, MONA COOLEY
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DIRECTOR, LEE ANN THERON
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CEO, FERNANDO Colares
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LIFE COACH, JOSH FROC
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CEO, TOM KLAUSSEN
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In addition to these honoured sponsors, we thank those who supported the Lead by Legacy Workshop who inspired our team to pursue this enterprise: Krysta Pallone Helm, Anthony Riedel, Zubehr Habib, Florian Rossmann, Ray Oliver, Karen Fraser, Rob Akester, Mansi Gupta, Cristiane Pelissari, Amanda Johnson, Jeannot Martineau, Nikki Yazdani, Andrew Sorenson, Kelsey Smith, Bia Caixeta, Icaro & Larissa Novo de Oliveira, Juan Carlos Quintana, Michael Wilson, Reuben Graham, Robyn Demare, Pablo Leites, and Martin Pow.