Ideas & Stuff
Morning Meditations at ACE Coworking
Office rentals, meeting room rentals, and hot desks are just part of our offerings at ACE Coworking. We are also very proud of our community programming, which includes a workplace wellness component. Our weekly meditation group is part of the mix – and now you too...
ACE Annual Mother’s Day Pop-Up Shop
Mother’s Day PopUp Shop Our Annual PopUp Shop Event includes vendors from our very own “ACE Family.” Just in time for Mother’s Day, they’ll have a variety of gift ideas for you to choose from. Come join us to browse or buy, and bring a friend! It’s your chance to...
Earth Day Shout-out to Oakvillegreen
It’s Earth Day! Oakvillegreen was selected as our free-of-charge Honourary ACE Coworking Member. One of the founding principles of the coworking industry is sustainability & environmental responsibility, so we are a perfect fit for each other.
Fabulous Fives Offer – Celebrating 5 Fab Years of ACE
Woohoo! It’s our birthday! 🎉 January 3, 2023 marked five years since ACE Coworking opened its doors, bringing Oakville its very first coworking space. We are so excited about reaching this milestone anniversary and want to thank everyone who has helped us get here:...
Gift Books for Entrepreneurs and Creatives
ACE Coworking members make suggestions for books that would make great holiday gifts for the entrepreneurs and creatives in your life.
Time Management Tips for Busy Professionals
Coworking members, The FlipSide Plan, are Time Management experts who give us their best advice for creating a more balanced workday with less rushing around, more order, and time to get it all (well, almost all) done. All about establishing Opening and Closing Routines for professionals.
ACE Trafalgar Grand Opening
Launch Party and Open House at ACE Coworking this summer – successfully making more and more connections among entrepreneurs and professionals around Halton!Oakville Office Launch Celebration! Oakville’s newest shared offices are at ACE Coworking’s second location,...
Coworking Day 2022 at ACE
Open House, Free Hot Desks, Giveaway, and Member Appreciation Event all in the works at ACE Coworking Oakville to celebrate International Coworking Day 2022.
ACE Coworking Cares
ACE Coworking is honoured to participate with and support so many worthy community charities around Oakville and Halton Region, including Lighthouse for Grieving Children, Oakvillegreen, Bridging the Gap.
Coworking Office: Secret Weapon for Employee Retention
Coworking members are utilizing our space and leverage our community to help them and their companies grow. Lately, we are hearing more and more of our members with staff tell us that ACE is one of the best employee-retention tools they have. Here’s why…
Traditional Office Lease Vs. Coworking Private Office
by Mark Fornasiero Now that we have finally dug out of the last of our lockdown restrictions, people are looking to make some long-term decisions about how and where they will work. We know that commuting to a central office five days a week is not in the cards for...
Second Ace Location, Opens Doors March 1!
ACE Trafalgar opening March 1, 2022. 23 Brand new bright and renovated private offices in a stylish downtown address. Welcome to our second location! We are so excited to be opening our doors to our second downtown Oakville location at 132 Trafalgar Road, just a few...
ACE Is Growing! Brand New Downtown Private Offices
New office spaces are availailable at ACE Coworking Trafalgar. Offices at ACE Trafalgar are turn-key and have sunny exterior-facing windows. The new location will be a sister space to the original ACE Coworking Robinson, just two blocks away. Members from both...
Office Space, WFH, Hybrid: What’s the best “place”?
Right now, leaders are determining what the new work world will look like for their teams. The choices seem to be: all-office, all-remote, or a hybrid of the two. But coworking spaces are emerging as an important option too. Let’s explore this new way to work.
ACE Coworking Holiday Book List
by Mark Fornasiero We've said it many times, but we love books here at ACE. Our regular Book Club meetings, where we dig into interesting non-fiction books on business and personal development, are always a hit. They also provide gift ideas for the holiday season. If...
Tech Entrepreneurs Compete at Hi5
ACE Coworking is proud to partner with Haltech to bring their Hi5 Pitch Competition event to life! Hi5 features 5 of Haltech’s most promising clients: each is given 5 minutes to pitch for a winning prize of $5,000. In addition the winner will receive $1200-worth of access to ACE Coworking’s meeting space.
Oakville Small Business Owners: Best Resources
It’s Small Business Week: always a good time to reflect on how we operate as a local small biz in Oakville, how we can improve on delivering our service, and how we can help other companies deliver theirs... Looking back to when we first opened our doors in January...
Announcing partnerships: Deskpass & Flexday
ACE Coworking is pleased to announce that we’ve recently partnered with two exciting companies that support the coworking industry…
3rd Annual ACE Golf Tournament
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 brought ACE Coworking members together for a day of outdoor recreation and bonding at Milton's Wyldewood Golf & Country Club. Our annual best-ball tourney always results in new friendships being formed among our members, and this year was...
International Coworking Day 2021 – Giveaway
by Nancy Fornasiero Every year on August 9th, coworking space operators all around the world celebrate International Coworking Day. It’s a chance to appreciate our members, educate the public, and amplify our message about how great coworking is. In the past here at...
ACE Coworking Awarded Small Business of The Year 2021
In a year in which remote work and hybrid work have been in the spotlight as new ways of working; it's timely that ACE Coworking has been named Small Business of the Year for 2021.ACE Coworking has been honoured with an OABE (Oakville Awards for Business Excellence)...
How Mindfulness Can Help with Pandemic Stress
Lockdown – Reopen – Stay-at-Home Order – Reopen – Emergency Brake – Reopen…. over and over. How does a business owner cope? Maybe you need mindfulness practice in your toolkit?
How to Overcome Writer’s Block
In this monthly series, Ask an Acer, we invite one of our talented members to share their expertise with you. February’s post comes to you from Amanda Lee, a skilled freelance journalist and copywriter. When you have content to create (and don’t we all these days?)...
Expert Hiring Tips You Need to Know!
HR Expert, Craig Bissett, shares a few tips from his new book “My Worst Hire & What I Learned From It”.
New Year, New You? Reinventing “Reinvention”
by Catherine Harrison Happy New Year to all our ACE members and to visitors to our ACE Coworking Blog. We hope this post offers you a fresh perspective on goal-setting and transformation as you launch into your new year plans. Wishing you much success in 2021!This is...
5 Books for the Entrepreneur in Your Life
by Mark Fornasiero If you’re scrambling for a last-minute Christmas gift for a book-lover we have some great ideas for you! These five titles are not typical business books, nor are they from the expected self-improvement genre, but if you want to stretch yourself (or...
The Dave Grohl School of Leadership
by Mark Fornasiero Did any of you catch SNL last week? It was amazing to see Foo Fighters, looking as fresh, energetic and relevant as ever, decades after their breakout in 1994. This post was inspired by that performance...The Dave Grohl School of Leadership - Biz...
4 Ways to Improve Your Email Marketing
Lucky you! We’ve asked some of our talented members to share their expertise with you each month. In this series of posts, you get to pick some super-smart brains. Our first contribution comes from Roger and Sarvy Van Maris, of Piece of Cake Digital Marketing and...
Your Small Business Can Grow… even during a pandemic!
It’s Small Business Month, so we thought it would be the perfect time to invite Mark to share a few thoughts on how your small business can grow and flourish, even during a pandemic... The SME sector in Canada is the engine of our economy. The BDC reports that over...
Faces of ACE – Meet Renata Pollock
We get asked all the time: “What sort of people work at ACE?” It’s a tough question to answer because our membership is so diverse: all ages, backgrounds, industries and work styles are represented under our roof! In this regular feature we’ll try to answer the...