Join the “A” Team

With over sixteen years of continuous training in the Self Employment sector, ACTI has gained significant insight into the challenges individuals face as entrepreneurs. To address these challenges, our management team has developed a comprehensive program that provides individuals with extensive training in marketing, goal setting, sales, customer service, motivation, accounting, law, finance, banking, insurance, taxation and business management.

Success Stories

As the saying goes “the proof is in the pudding.” We are proud to share some of our entrepreneur success stories!

The Program

The Self Employment program is administered and funded by Alberta Human Services and is designed for individuals who have never owned a business before and are committed to starting their own business now.

The program features ten weeks of full-time classroom instruction followed by sixteen weeks of coaching, group meetings, and one-to-one counseling as participants develop their businesses. The classroom instruction is conducted by experienced entrepreneurs and is supplemented by a variety of guest speakers who are experts in areas that relate to small business operations.

During the second phase of the program, participants begin the process of setting up and actually operating their businesses and serving clients.

Our classes are interactive; our content practical. We consider our program to be the entrepreneur “boot camp.” Although a lot of material is covered during the in-class phase of the program, smaller class sizes enable us to give individualized attention while balancing group discussions.

As a member of the “A” team, individuals have access to computers with high-speed Internet access for conducting market research, writing their business plans.

In addition to computers, the Institute has an extensive collection of self-help, motivation and business development resources that are available to students while attending the program.

Members of our “A” team are all entrepreneurs who have either gone through the Self Employment program or owned/operated their own business in the past. This means that participants learn and have access to individuals who have first-hand knowledge about entrepreneurship.