Featured Work
From leadership and entrepreneurship to personal growth and meaningful impact, these are a few of the projects I'm currently building and sharing.
Speaking
Insights, stories, and real-world lessons on entrepreneurship, leadership, personal growth, and education.
SHINE
A practical framework for creating balance, momentum, and intentional growth across the areas of life that matter most.
Founder’s Retreat
A collaborative retreat experience designed to help women entrepreneurs connect, reflect, and grow.
Speaking
Drawing on her experiences as an educator, award-winning entrepreneur, and multi-business founder, Heather shares practical insights and real-world lessons that inspire audiences to take action and move forward with confidence.
Topics
The Leap
Three Survival Tips for the Entrepreneurial Journey
Leaving a stable career to start a business can feel equal parts exciting and terrifying. Drawing on her own journey from educator to entrepreneur, Heather shares three lessons that helped her navigate the early years of building a business: knowing your why, seeking out helpers along the way, and building a team that believes in your mission.
Through personal stories, practical insights, and honest reflections on the realities of entrepreneurship, audiences leave with tools they can immediately apply to their own journey.
Ideal for:
Entrepreneurs, founders, small business owners, startup communities, leadership programs, and emerging leaders.
What Are You Building Success For?
Using the SHINE Framework to create a life that works.
Many high achievers excel in one area of life while unintentionally neglecting others. The SHINE Framework offers a practical approach to creating sustainable success by focusing on five key areas: Self, Health, Inner Circle, Nest, and Enterprise.
Through stories, reflection, and actionable strategies, audiences learn how small, intentional choices can create meaningful progress without burning out in the process.
Ideal for:
Professionals, leaders, entrepreneurs, women's groups, personal development audiences, and teams.
Founder’s Retreat
May 27 - May 30, 2027
Join Heather Desjardins and Michelle Weger for an intimate, high-level retreat for women business owners
Set at a beautiful chalet, within 2.5 hours of Ottawa. It’s a mix of teaching sessions, guided workshopping, and focused mastermind discussions, centered around upgrading your business skills.
We’ll walk through strategy, brainstorm ideas, create and refine ideas. You will also have a dedicated mastermind session to workshop any business challenge or opportunity you want feedback on.
Days will be full and productive, and evenings are yours to unwind, connect, and enjoy the space. Whether that means relaxing in the hotub, chatting by the firepit, or sipping wine with new friends, it’s all there to help you recharge and soak in the experience.
What’s Included
Three nights accommodation in beautiful chalet.
Professionally catered meals, snacks, wine (that means no cooking or cleaning for guests)
Strategy sessions, mastermind discussions, and implementation time.
Full access to property amenities including a hot tub
Only 2 rooms remaining for 2027:
Private room: Twin bed for $3400
Shared room: Twin bed for $2400
$500 non-refundable payment (paid to VCC with button below) to reserve your room, then 9 monthly payments for the balance.
Key Features
Think Tank Sessions: High-level mastermind discussions.
Teaching Blocks: Expert-led sessions on business strategy that will grow your revenue.
Independent Work Time: Time to work on business goals and apply the learning.
SHINE
Coming Soon
What are you building success for?
SHINE is an framework, book, and body of work focused on helping people create success that is both meaningful and sustainable. Through five key areas of life, Self, Health, Inner Circle, Nest, and Enterprise, SHINE offers a practical approach to building a life that works.