5th Floor, Halifax Central Library
The Cost of Capable™ Live
Hosted by Conscious Economics · Emceed by Rhiannon Rosalind, joining from Toronto · With a musical performance by Owen “O’Sound” Lee
Sold outFor the first time in years, Verena Rizg will be returning to the stage and sharing her spoken word at a public event.
Insight is the invitation.
Action is the attendance.
An evening built with intention: intimate, honest, and unhurried.
Three artists and multidimensional professionals who each know what it is like to carry the Cost of Capable™.
Rhiannon Rosalind
Host & Emcee — joining from Toronto
Live interview with Verena Rizg
Founder & CEO of Conscious Economics, Founder of Lunar Studios, and former CEO of the Economic Club of Canada — a stage from which she convened some of the most consequential voices of our time, including Barack and Michelle Obama and Amal Clooney.
The youngest woman ever inducted into Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Hall of Fame, she has spent two decades building rooms where economics and human capacity meet. On August 22, she holds this one.
Full biography
Rhiannon Rosalind is a serial entrepreneur and systems innovator dedicated to reimagining the relationship between health, wellbeing, culture, and the economy. She is the Founder and CEO of Conscious Economics, a national Canadian organization advancing research, education, and systemic change to improve economic wellbeing and create more equitable systems. She is also the Founder of Lunar Studios, Canada’s first creative incubator dedicated to using art, storytelling, and culture as catalysts for economic innovation and social change.
For more than fifteen years, Rhiannon has built unlikely partnerships that bring together governments, financial institutions, healthcare leaders, corporations, researchers, community organizations, and artists to address some of Canada’s most pressing social and economic challenges. Her work has helped shape national conversations around financial wellbeing, women’s economic advancement, financial therapy, workforce participation, and the role of creativity in building healthier communities and a more inclusive economy.
Previously, Rhiannon served for over a decade as CEO of The Economic Club of Canada, where she convened some of the world’s most influential leaders, including President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney, and hundreds of global CEOs, policymakers, innovators, and changemakers. She is the youngest woman in Canadian history to be inducted into Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Hall of Fame and has also been recognized as a Change Agent by Canadian Business and as one of Bay Street Bull’s Power 50.
Today, Rhiannon’s work sits at the intersection of art, business, science, and public policy. Through research, creative storytelling, and systems innovation, she is helping redefine how we understand value, contribution, and prosperity, expanding opportunities for women, artists, entrepreneurs, and historically underserved communities while building practical models for a healthier, more inclusive economy.
Verena Rizg
Spoken word — author of The Cost of Capable™
Clinician, author, speaker, and systems strategist. Sixteen years of clinical practice stand behind the book and the stage where her writing first began.
Full bio
Owen “O’Sound” Lee
Musical performance
Owen “O’Sound” Lee is a musician, songwriter, vocal arranger, and producer based in Halifax. A student of vocal performance jazz who grew up singing in church, he has shared the stage with artists including Drake, Mariah Carey, Jordin Sparks, Jully Black, and Kardinal Offishall.
He is Minister of Music at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Upper Hammonds Plains and former Musical Director of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir. In 2022 he received Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for service in arts and community, and in 2023 was named Album of the Year by the African Nova Scotian Music Association.
“I was moved to tears during my first experience with it because it articulated something I had sensed for years but had never been able to fully express.”
Rhiannon Rosalind
Emceed by Rhiannon Rosalind, Founder & CEO of Conscious Economics — joining from Toronto.
Seventy in the room. Intimate, intentional.
This evening is sold out.
You can still get the book.
Your ticket includes both formats and the evening:
- The digital copy, licensed to you with your name on every page, the moment you reserve.
- A signed printed copy, in your hands on the night.
No separate purchase needed.
