What if you could build your own AI-powered teammate—one that saves you time, cuts costs, and helps your business grow smarter and faster?

This month, we welcome GC member Roisin Bennett, Founder of Marketing Mentors and The AI Team. Roisin is a recognized AI marketing strategist, finalist for the Digital Women Awards AI Specialist 2025, and a mentor to hundreds of startups.

Roisin will share how small business owners can start using AI as a practical teammate to save time and grow without adding more staff.

This Grand AI Group session blends expert learning with meaningful connection. Our mission is to help entrepreneurs explore how AI can boost productivity and creativity—together. You’ll leave with practical tools and new Grand Connections to support your journey.

Meeting Times: Every 2nd Thursday of the month

Date: Oct 9, 2025 (Thursday)

9:00 am – 10:00 am PDT (Time Converter)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm BST

Location: Zoom

Get ready to be part of inspiring discussions, gain insights, and connect with fellow AI enthusiasts. The future of AI awaits—join us for this transformative session!

Invite a friend! Non-members can attend 3 Grand Connection events for free. Get your Free Guest Pass or join today!

MEET GUEST SPEAKER & GC MEMBER:

Roisin Bennett is the founder of Marketing Mentors and The AI Team, where she helps small businesses and startups harness AI to grow smarter, faster, and more efficiently.

A recognised AI marketing strategist, Roisin has mentored hundreds of startups on go-to-market strategies and is a finalist for the Digital Women Awards AI Specialist 2025. She combines her experience as a fractional CMO with cutting-edge AI expertise to create practical, ethical, and scalable systems that help businesses save time, cut costs, and unlock new growth opportunities.

Through Marketing Mentors, she delivers AI-first marketing services, and with The AI Team, she builds human + AI-powered systems that act as “AI teammates for hire.” Her mission is simple: turn AI into a growth engine for small businesses.

 

 

 

AI GROUP LEADERS:

Sheynal Saujani is a successful business development professional with over 25 years experience in the technology sector. He has a proven track record of successfully helping business transform their companies from using traditional software methods to using agile processes. Sheynal has in-depth experience in sales, enterprise software, solution selling, business partner development and account management. Sheynal is also the President of RSK Strata Advisors, a consulting firm dedicated to addressing the BC Strata Regulations for depreciation reports. Sheynal is on a new learning journey – how to engage with the emerging AI technology to become a more effective and efficient entrepreneur. He looks forward to learning together in the AI group.

 

 

 

 

Steve Eriksen is the Founder of EventRaptor – the new solution to making Virtual Event Management easy!

He’s also a tech integration specialist and automation enthusiast.

In his previous role as the Chief Technology Officer for Mary Morrissey, a life coach certification organization with an 8-figure revenue, he was responsible for all the tech that went into their events with thousands of attendees. When Steve hosted a summit for his own coaching business, he couldn’t find a good system to help him run his event.

So he took his technical background in the events space, combined it with his real-world experience as an event host, and created EventRaptor, a system that makes virtual event management easy.

 

 

What to Expect:
The Grand Connection community is a fun, welcoming group of like-minded businesses and professionals with an intention to support each other to grow and scale our businesses through Grand Giving. At our Grand AI Group Event, you will have opportunities to connect, create, and collaborate in breakouts and in the main room as we discuss topics related to AI. Members are encouraged to reach out to the group leaders if they have a tool they would like to demo. Please have your camera, good lighting and microphone available. Practice your short introduction ahead and have a short write-up prepared to share in the chat.

You Never Know Who You Will Meet!
Members have made many Grand Connections that have led to lasting relationships in our community. These connections have turned into collaborative ventures, partnerships, speaking engagements, podcast interviews, referral partners and great clients! You have the opportunity to meet like minded businesses to share and receive skills, resources and connections based on our founding principle of Grand Giving. Collaboration is an essential part of reaching your Grand Potential. We are even better together on this Grand Adventure.

Invite a friend! Non-members can attend 3 Grand Connection events for free. Get your Free Guest Pass or join today!