Kelsey Ramdsen has some advice for herself at 21: “Don’t try and look too far down the path. And don’t be concerned when the path changes.” Working jobs from legal assistant to coffee shop manager to fish monger, Kelsey’s path has had its fair share of bends. After an MBA and a post-college consulting job that she confesses made her want to “veer into oncoming traffic every work day,” Kelsey left the corporate world to start her own construction business.
A pretty scary decision at the time, Kelsey was bit by the bug of entrepreneurship. Developing one successful business after another, her path changed again following three kids and a bout with cancer. Following her latest venture kelseyramsden.com, a site helping others challenge the status quo, Kelsey spends much of her time educating budding entrepreneurs via speaking engagements and her own business services firm. She’s even been named Canada’s top female entrepreneur by Profit Magazine two years in a row—credentials that are far from the every day.