Jayne Seagrave: Writer and Entrepreneur
With the unique combination of being a best-selling travel writer, successful international entrepreneur and extensively published academic, Dr Jayne Seagrave is an eclectic women who has a wealth of experience and talents in a number of areas. Her infectious personal attributes coupled with energy, enthusiasm, joie de vive and desire to convey her knowledge and experience to others has resulted in a diverse career.
Although primarily an entrepreneur, Jayne is probably best known as a travel writer with extensive expertise on camping in Western Canada and on women’s solo travel. Her primary employment is as Marketing Director for the Vancouver Tool Corporation, a company she established with her partner over twenty-five years ago. Vancouver Tool has successfully managed to market and sell a number of its patented inventions for the home improvement industry. Over 40 million of their tools have been sold worldwide, making them a highly successful small business. In 2021 she diversified again and wrote her first work of fiction.