Social Enterprise Solutions (Canada)

Social Enterprise Solutions is a full-service consulting and training firm for social enterprise - including readiness assessment, opportunity identification, business and impact modelling, feasibility assessment, strategy development, business planning, and lean startup. Social Enterprise Solutions' founder, Andy Horsnell, has worked for over three decades to help community-based enterprises and local economies be more resilient, self-reliant, and sustainable. He has worked with 100s of organisations — large and small, rural and urban ‒ throughout North America and abroad. He has held senior roles at several firms (Acadia Centre for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the National Center for Social Entrepreneurs, Rolfe Larson Associates, Aperio, and the Community Sector Council Newfoundland and Labrador), and has co-founded others (Authenticity Consulting, Common Good Solutions, and Flourish Community Development Co-operative). In addition to his own consulting practice and Flourish, Andy currently works as a consulting associate for: Horizons Community Development Associates, LearnSphere, and the Centre for Local Prosperity. As a volunteer, he 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.