Date: November 14th, 2026

Time: 9:00am-12:30pm

Guest Speaker: Gauri Prasad

In-person location: 201 Centre Street South, Whitby

Join us for our Monthly Networking Meeting (MNM) on November 14th, featuring our guest speaker, Gauri Prasad!

About the Speaker

Gauri Prasad is a Canadian-Indian actress, author, and Ontario Arts Council BIPOC grant winner with an MBA, a B.Comm, and a couple of other certifications she doesn’t use. She spent the better part of two decades building a vast corporate career and has since left all of that behind to write dark romantic suspense about morally grey men in corporate empires and the feisty women who are the true alphas— which may or may not be a fantastical retelling of her history.

Her debut novel, The Never Not Broken — Book One of the Hecate’s Daughters duology — launched in March 2026.

When she is not writing fiction that would have made her former self darkly elated, she is inventing increasingly creative ways to justify ordering dessert despite being gluten and dairy-sensitive. She considers this a character flaw in someone with excellent taste, because, obviously, the consequences are tomorrow’s problem.

Gauri can be found at @_gauriprasad_ on Instagram and TikTok

Schedule

9:00 – Doors open

9:30 – Opening remarks and land acknowledgement

9:35 – Split-second scribble and sharing

9:50 – News and kudos

10:00 – Solution stations

10:20 – Coffee/snack break

10:30 – Guest speaker

11:30 – Networking & Critique Circle