{"id":9831,"date":"2015-06-11T12:48:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T20:00:03","slug":"joey-adler-emba-2014-former-fashion-ceo-finds-a-new-passion-in-helping-others-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/2015\/06\/11\/joey-adler-emba-2014-former-fashion-ceo-finds-a-new-passion-in-helping-others-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Adler (EMBA 2014), former fashion CEO, finds a new passion in helping others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-7948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Joey_Adler_opt-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joey_Adler_opt\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>A recent article in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/careers\/management\/former-fashion-ceo-finds-a-new-passion-in-helping-others\/article24873515\/\">The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/span> highlights the life changes of Joey Adler, a 2014 EMBA McGill-HEC Montr\u00e9al alumna.<\/p>\n<p>When Joey applied to the EMBA program, in 2012, she had already received an honorary doctorate of laws from Concordia for her business and charity work, but she still says that the program changed her life forever. \u201cIn the process of taking my EMBA, it hit me I wanted to do other things,\u201d she explained the Globe. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to do business any more that didn\u2019t have a social component.\u201d And that is exactly what she did.<\/p>\n<p>Joey retired as president and chief executive officer of Diesel Canada at the beginning of 2015, in order to work as a full-time \u201csocial entrepreneur\u201d and philanthropist with the Foundation she founded in 2003, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onexone.org\/\">OneXOne<\/a>. She also pursues her role as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.villedesterel.com\/fr\/La-Ville\/Conseil-Municipal\/\">councillor of community of Est\u00e9rel<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, she founded <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irii.com\/\">Industrial Revolution II (IRII)<\/a><\/span>, an environmentally friendly apparel manufacturing facility in Port-au-Prince who invests 50 per cent of its profits back into the workers, their families and local community.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Joey participated in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livebelowtheline.com\/\">Live Below the Line<\/a><\/span> challenge to raise money for people living in poverty. She spent just $1.75 a day on food for nearly a week and spent some time living on the streets of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Those are some of the changes in Joey\u2019s life that truly have an impact on other\u2019s lives. She does not call it work, because she loves what she does and, as she says, \u201cIf you love what you do, you\u2019re not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/careers\/management\/former-fashion-ceo-finds-a-new-passion-in-helping-others\/article24873515\/\">Read the full article in The Globe and Mail.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in The Globe and Mail highlights the life changes of Joey Adler, a 2014 EMBA McGill-HEC Montr\u00e9al alumna. When Joey applied to the EMBA program, in 2012, she had already received an honorary doctorate of laws from Concordia for her business and charity work, but she still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[3702856,386,384,134,385,388,135,320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10034,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions\/10034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embamcgillhec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}