About Domain

Practical skills, not credentials

A workshop platform built for people who want to understand how entrepreneurial thinking works — and how to apply it in the real world, wherever they are in Saskatchewan.

Workshop participants working through entrepreneurial exercises

01 Where this started

Domain came out of a straightforward observation: most entrepreneurship education either happens in large cities or gets watered down into theory-heavy content with no practical application. Neither option works well for people spread across a province like Saskatchewan.

The platform was built in 2024 with a single structural constraint — every workshop had to be deliverable online, asynchronously or live, and had to include at least 1 hands-on assignment per session. Not slides. Actual tasks with defined outcomes.

The geography problem in Saskatchewan is real. A student in Wolseley and one in a northern community both need access to the same quality of instruction. Geography is not a valid reason for a 40% gap in educational access, so the platform was designed around removing that constraint entirely.

Group of learners collaborating on entrepreneurial workshop tasks

Participants from 14 different communities across the province completed the Spring 2025 cohort.

14+ Communities reached across Saskatchewan

6 Workshop modules per program

4.8 Average participant rating out of 5

02 How the curriculum is structured

Each program builds in deliberate layers. Participants start with foundational concepts — not motivation, but concrete frameworks like constraint mapping and opportunity cost in small business contexts. Each layer adds complexity and requires applying the previous one.

By the final module, participants are working on a real problem from their own context — not a simulated case study. The structure exists to make the learning stick, not to fill 8 weeks of content.

Applied project

Decision frameworks

Market & constraint analysis

Collaborative exercises

Foundational concepts

The people running the workshops

Small team, direct involvement — no middlemen between instructors and participants.

Director

Orin Hallett

Program Director

Orin designed the workshop curriculum with a focus on rural and remote applicability. He has run 3 cohorts since launch and reviews every participant assignment batch personally before the next module opens.

Vera Szymanski

Lead Facilitator

Vera facilitates live sessions and manages the collaborative exercises across cohorts. Her background in adult education informs how feedback is delivered — specific, actionable, and tied directly to the assignment criteria rather than general commentary.

Dael Oquendo

Support & Coordination

Handles participant onboarding, scheduling, and technical issues during live sessions.

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