Aligned Collective is a Registered Not-For-Profit Society
Our strategy is to build space and capacity that activates local economic development for a vibrant and resilient community across sectors, through education, connection, and leadership
We provide professional office space and affordable commercial and education opportunities to businesses and community groups.
At Aligned Collective, we facilitate growth of small, local business into larger spaces as they become available. We want to see local business take the stage, grow into new spaces as they become available, and flourish.
Who We Are
Susan and Zanny are exponentially driven to support community economic development initiatives in Squamish and the Sea to Sky Community. Their combined experiences in the social-impact arena amplify their capacity to curate, launch and manage a successful coworking and community hub. They are passionate in their roles of advancing the community where they live, work and play to offer a platform where they can see the Sea to Sky Corridor locally succeed.
Susan Chapelle
Susan Chapelle, a successful entrepreneur and small business owner, is serving a second term as a City Councillor in one of the most rapidly growing communities in Canada, Squamish British Columbia. As an advocate for urban planning and economic development as an integral part of preventative health care in her community, she advocated successfully for the healthy community initiative in the official city plan. Susan is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University Community Economic development program and is currently an SFU EMBA candidate. Susan is also the owner of Squamish Integrated Health, a successful business that opened in 2000 and now employs 23 people. Susan continues her health care research through a collaboration with Geoffrey Bove, D.C, PhD at the University of New England and is an international speaker, presenting at conferences and teaching courses on the mechanisms of manual therapy, most recently in India and Germany. As a 20 year resident of Squamish, BC Susan is excited to grow the opportunities for successful economic development and seeing her community thrive with the opening of “Aligned Collective ”.
Zanny Venner
Zanny is an Urban Strategist with experience operating in social innovation spaces and community-driven, social and economic development. With an MS in Design & Urban Ecologies from Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, her training and education has enriched her capacity to research, strategize, and mediate community-led development projects across a wide spectrum of urban issues and challenges, including public space, arts & culture, waste, housing and land rights, and informal economies. She has her own individual consulting firm called ‘(in)between” where she designs multi-stakeholder urban agendas between community organizations, institutions and residents and is also an Associate at CapacityBuild Consulting Inc. Not only is she an avid backcountry enthusiast as a mountain biker and big mountain skier, but she is personally and professionally invested in co-creating community development projects where she lives. As a recent resident of Squamish, Zanny is excited to be collaborating with Susan Chapelle to open “Aligned Collective” to support the local economic ecosystems and the social fabric of the Sea to Sky community.