Andy is an independent consultant, specializing in social enterprise development. His website is www.socialenterprisesolutions.ca.
He has worked for over three decades to help community-based enterprises and their local economies to be more resilient, self-reliant, and sustainable. He got his start working in rural Nova Scotia, providing coaching and training to independent entrepreneurs. In the mid-1990s, Andy started working with local non-profit organizations, helping them to start and grow social enterprises that used a business model to directly address important community issues. Since then, He has worked with 100s of community organizations — large and small, rural and urban, for-profit and nonprofit ‒ throughout North America and abroad. As a volunteer, he currently serves as the vice-chair of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada, is a founding director of Just, Good Business (formerly the Social Enterprise Network of Nova Scotia), and served as the chair of the Centre for Local Prosperity.
When he’s not doing consulting, Andy works with his partner SJ on their sheep farm (Pheasant.Ridge.Farm on Instagram) in beautiful Kempt Shore, Nova Scotia.