My Brilliant Minded Women Lifetime Achievement Award!

Jody is being recognized for using her network of resources to leverage buying power to aid every company and not-for-profit agency that she touches to maximize their buying dollar. Since 1988, Jody has grown Bargains Group from her apartment to a multi-million dollar-a-year business. She is also often sought out for speaking engagements due to her successful entrepreneurial business experience, and has been featured in various media outlets, and is an official Huffington Post blogger.

Pioneering her belief of “giving back makes good business sense”, Jody is a tireless not-for-profit advocate, and the founder of the charity, Engage and Change, and its two annual initiatives, Project Winter Survival and Project Water. Through these projects, Engage and Change helps thousands of homeless throughout Toronto survive the extreme weather conditions while engaging and enabling citizens of all ages to donate their time to their local community through sponsored group volunteer engagement events. Jody and the Bargains Group also help and supply hundreds of similar projects across Canada.