INTRODUCTION
The idea of writing an overview of the challenges within the Montreal ethnic entrepreneur community was given by my former director to assess the need for new services and initiatives. Instead of making an inventory of specific needs from my day to day work experience with the Black entrepreneurs I created a general picture of the main realities within the ethnic community in the Cities of Western countries where we live as Diaspora. This analysis target essentially the ethnic entrepreneurs that recently immigrated, emphasis on the Black community, who have the challenge to integrate themselves as individuals or communities. Most of you are familiar with them, but at least we can now have a document that we can share so that everyone will be on the same page to start an action against these challenges and initiate CHANGE.Arnaud Segla, Consultant Manager and Author, promotes informal alternatives and ethnic identity in terms of inter- and intra-community socioeconomic performance.
As the head of a consulting firm and think tank since 2009, he has built expertise in ethnic entrepreneurship projects for the economic empowerment of communities through various experiences in project management and business engineering aimed at contributing to the definition of informal alternative solutions for economic and sustainable development in Canada and Africa.
He has developed customized programs and services specifically for newcomers and residents from diverse cultures who want to start a business quickly and on the right foot, and above all, make it last. Arnaud offers highly practical training courses designed to enable participants to bring their projects to fruition in a short period of time. He is the author of several books, including the first guide on ethnic entrepreneurship using an informal approach.