Founded for connection. Built around an extended table.
Female Forward Collective started as ten women around a table at a local diner who had decided it was time to get back into a room together. That table became a movement. And the movement became this.
THERE IS A SEAT HERE FOR YOU
Join us at the table.
Whether you are stepping into your first breakfast, claiming your place in the directory, or ready for Growth Circle — Female Forward has a place for you.
The founding story
~80+ women per monthly breakfast
+250% growth in 21 months
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We do not believe in small tables.
Three ideas guide everything Female Forward does.
01
Lift while you climb.
Your success does not diminish someone else's. When you bring another woman with you as you grow — refer her, celebrate her, recommend her, make space for her — you build something more sustainable than anything you could build alone.
Female Forward Collective started in summer 2024 as a simple idea — ten women around a table at a local diner, deciding it was time to get back into a room together.
No agenda. No pitch deck. Just real conversation between women who were tired of building businesses behind screens and hungry for something more grounded than a Zoom call.
That first table became a movement. The diner became Pitt Meadows Golf Club. Ten women became thirty, then sixty, then nearly ninety — and the room keeps growing because what happens inside it is genuinely different from anything else in the Tri-Cities.
Female Forward is organized and led by Meghan Simington — Fractional CMO, business strategist, and the woman behind every speaker booking, sponsor relationship, event experience, and community connection that makes this room what it is.
“Make a bigger table. Lift while you climb. There is room for all of us to grow.”
THE FOUNDER
Meghan Simington
Founder & Host, Female Forward CollectiveFractional CMO & Business Strategist · Ready to Launch Consulting
Meghan brings over a decade of experience in B2B revenue growth, targeted marketing strategy, and building communities that create real commercial outcomes. She founded Female Forward because she believed women in business deserved a room that held both their ambition and their humanity — and she has spent every month since making sure that room gets better.
She is the person behind every speaker booking, every sponsor relationship, every intentional event detail, and every community connection that makes Female Forward the community it has become. If you want to connect, volunteer, partner, or get involved in any way — Meghan is who you talk to.
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2024 founded in the Tri-Cities
02
Make a bigger table.
The networking culture that pits women against each other in the same industry is built on scarcity. We are not interested in scarcity. The table is bigger when more women sit at it. Your competition is welcome here.
03
There is enough for all of us.
The ocean is large. There are enough clients, referrals, collaborations, and visibility for every woman in this room. We operate from that belief in everything we do — from how we seat the room to how we welcome every woman who walks through the door.
