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Our team

Our team is made up of gifted minds in Montreal... and in Brussels!

CEO

Nathalie Courville

Recognized as an expert with over 35 years' experience, Ms. Courville acts as project manager. She advises and supports customers throughout the consultation process.

Mrs Courville is a recognized expert in strategic planning, mainly in the fields of culture, tourist attractions and events, where she has worked for over 35 years.

Mrs Courville has founded two communications agencies and held various high-level positions in cultural and event organizations over the years. For many years, she has provided strategic consulting services to cultural structures, associations and event organizations of all kinds.

Mrs Courville has been an associate professor at HEC Montréal's Chair in Arts Management and a lecturer in the DESS and Master's programmes in the management of cultural organisations since 2007. She is also a guest lecturer in event management, marketing and financing at the Institut des Hautes études de Communications sociales de Bruxelles (IHECS Academy) and at the Brussels School of Management, ICHEC, for the C-Ship cultural management programme. To date, she has trained and helped thousands of students and professionals develop their management, marketing and private finance skills in Canada and Europe.

Research Coordinator

Hugo Dufour

Mr Dufour is our master analyst of statistical data and socio-demographic contexts. His skills are put to good use in the analysis of contexts and environments.

Researcher, cultural worker and curator Hugo Dufour has been making his mark on the Montreal arts scene for several years. As founder of the Céline Bureau artists' residency and producer of a number of Montreal art festivals, he has made it his personal mission to support emerging artists and foster inter-community collaboration. More recently, he has been involved in cultural policy research in collaboration with André Courchesne of HEC Montréal's Chair in Arts Management.
Data Analyst

Luce Proulx

Mrs Proulx holds a Master's degree in Tourism Management and Planning from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a Master's degree in Geography from the Université de Montréal.

She also has additional training in business analytics (HEC), which has enabled her to perfect her analytical methods in relation to data science, including data mining and visualisation, and in management and sustainable development (HEC). For over 25 years, Mrs Proulx has carried out research mandates involving both quantitative and qualitative research. For 11 years, she was coordinator and head of research and business intelligence at Événements Attractions Québec, where she planned, managed and conducted numerous tourism-related studies and surveys. Since 2022, Mrs Proulx has specialised in primary and secondary data research and analysis, including textual data, to support organisations and businesses in their need for information and strategic knowledge. She works mainly, but not exclusively, in the fields of social and cultural development, local and regional development, and sustainable and responsible development.
Strategic and organizational development consultant

Esther Robitaille

Esther Robitaille has nearly 30 years' experience in managing cultural enterprises. Her expertise includes strategic and organizational planning, financial and administrative management, cultural policies, governance and the structuring of collective projects (e.g.: church conversion).

Her work leads to concrete results, strengthening the impact in cultural, community and tourism circles. A resident of the Laurentians since 2014, she collaborates with municipalities, cultural organizations, tourism businesses and associations. Esther promotes culture as a pillar of sustainable development, valuing the transversal aspect of culture and adopting a long-term vision. Her training in non-violent communication supports her commitment to inclusion, dialogue and collective intelligence in the realization of sustainable projects.
Office Assistant

Catherine Rennuy

Catherine Rennuy has been an administrative assistant for 18 years, coordinating the team and laying out our AE documents. Between Brussels and Val-David, she does research and monitoring.

Catherine Rennuy is a classical guitarist by trade. Music and the arts have always been part of her life and career. For several years now, she has been offering administrative support services. For ArtExpert, she coordinates the drafting of master documents, documentation management and actively participates in research.

Research assistant

Juliette Turcotte

Juliette Turcotte is a young professional who recently graduated from the Université of Quebec in Montréal with a degree in Communications and Media and Cultural Production Strategies.

She is also interested in the field of accounting sciences, a field in which she is currently pursuing her studies. With a background in theater at CEGEP, Juliette has a keen interest in the arts and culture, and her penchant for numbers adds to her diverse expertise.

Our collaborators

Expert in Public Finance

Emilie Chazelas

Emilie Chazelas has over fifteen years' experience in organizational development and management. She studied Art History, specializing in heritage, in France and England.

She began her career in cultural development in the Outaouais region. She carried out the first inventory of the region's built heritage and wrote the Heritage Guide for elected officials, a first in Quebec. She continued her career at the head of an MRC economic development department, where she developed the first investor attraction strategy. She went on to become General Manager of a municipality before returning to the cultural milieu, where she served as General and Artistic Director of a concert hall in Estrie.
Over the course of her professional life, Émilie has acquired a diverse range of experience, including grant application analysis, program and public fund management, and the financial and operational management of organizations. In 2018, drawing on this experience, she founded EMC Consultante, a company specializing in the preparation of funding dossiers for municipalities and non-profit organizations. Her expertise is put to good use in analyzing the financial management and structuring of funding programs in culture.
Strategic cultural communication and cultural engineering consultancy (Brussels)

Delphine Jenart

Mrs Jenart is dedicated to cultural democracy and the sharing of knowledge, exploring how technologies can promote the accessibility of cultural content and the development of audiences.

Delphine Jenart places democracy through culture and the sharing of knowledge at the heart of her commitment. A strong leitmotiv that has led her to invest in the field of technologies at the service of culture, or how they can be used to make content more accessible on the one hand, and to develop audiences on the other.

Over the past 20 years, it has developed expertise in strategic communications and engineering in the French-speaking cultural sphere in Belgium (museums, cultural centres, festivals, the European Capital of Culture), as well as supporting the development of digital innovation at local level – from start-ups to multinationals – and training in digital professions. Some of its references: Mundaneum, Mons arts de la scène, Le Botanique, Fédération des employeurs des arts de la scène, KIKK festival, Google, Foire du Livre de Bruxelles, Arts et Publics, Technocité, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Transmission, communication, education and mediation are the cardinal points of her compass. It is in this capacity that she works as a trainer for the voluntary sector and as a lecturer at the IHECS (Haute Ecole Galilée – Brussels) and the UCLouvain in Belgium.

Expert in cultural engineering

Géraldine Dallaire

Mrs Dallaire has over 15 years' experience in the cultural sector. She specialises in setting up workshops and training courses to equip cultural organisations and entrepreneurs, particularly in Quebec, France and West Africa.

Géraldine Dallaire holds a PhD in administration from HEC Montréal, which focuses on how cultural entrepreneurs design and develop their entrepreneurial projects. She has worked in the cultural sector and has been interested in entrepreneurship for over 15 years.

She works as a consultant for cultural and creative organisations (strategic planning, rethinking business models, mobilising stakeholders, etc.), as well as for institutions wishing to analyse and better understand the issues facing cultural players (studies for YES Montréal, Compétence culture).

She specialises in setting up workshops and training courses to equip cultural organisations and cultural entrepreneurs. She has several years' experience in leading round tables, conferences, facilitating and creating workshops and professional training courses, etc. She is regularly asked to speak on the challenges of cultural entrepreneurship. She is the founder of the Pôle entrepreneuriat culturel et créatif in France, which she then set up in Quebec.

She is also involved in a number of research projects and has been teaching or taking part in training courses for the past 10 years on issues relating to entrepreneurship, cultural entrepreneurship, management and marketing, in Quebec, France and West Africa. She has also obtained official certification in business model design from Yves Pigneur.

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