Anthony Wingham is an entrepreneur, community leader, and mentor who brings real-world business experience and community-rooted leadership to Indigenous Launchpad.
He co-founded Nuez Acres®, a water-free pecan-oil beauty brand now distributed across Canada and the United States, and founded MetisPrint.ca, a sustainable apparel brand celebrating Métis culture. Through building and growing these ventures, Anthony gained firsthand experience navigating exports, entering new markets, and scaling businesses across borders.
But for Anthony, business success has always been about more than growth. It is about community, knowledge sharing, and creating opportunities that last beyond one generation.
As Anthony explains, “Mentorship in Indigenous entrepreneurship isn’t one direction, it’s a circle.”
That belief shapes how he shows up as a mentor. Rather than leading from the front, Anthony focuses on walking alongside entrepreneurs as they grow their businesses and strengthen their confidence. “For me, mentorship means walking alongside entrepreneurs, not ahead of them.” Anthony recognizes that every entrepreneur already carries valuable knowledge shaped by family, community, and lived experience. His role is not to replace that knowledge, but to strengthen it and connect it to tools and opportunities that support business growth.
“Every founder brings knowledge from their family, their community, and their lived experience. My role isn’t to replace that, it’s to support it, strengthen it, and help connect it to tools that open doors.”
Anthony doesn’t view mentorship as a way to teach innovation. He sees it as recognizing and supporting what already exists. Mentorship creates space for Indigenous entrepreneurs to strengthen and scale ideas already rooted in community knowledge.
“Working alongside Indigenous entrepreneurs has taught me that innovation already exists in our communities.”
Beyond entrepreneurship, Anthony has supported Indigenous entrepreneurs, youth, and community members through mentorship, teaching, and advisory roles. He takes a collaborative approach, listening to the challenges businesses face and helping entrepreneurs identify strategies to move forward in a sustainable way.
A proud Métis from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and President of the Waceya Métis Society, Anthony is deeply committed to family, community leadership, and cultural preservation. For Anthony, mentorship is about more than individualbusiness success. It is about building long-term prosperity that stays rooted
in the community.
“Mentorship matters because we’re not just growing companies, we’re growing confidence, skills, and opportunities that stay in the community.”
When Indigenous entrepreneurs succeed, the impact extends beyond one business. Indigenous Launchpad is built to support that shared success. “Indigenous Launchpad is about creating that space where learning goes both ways, and where success is shared, not isolated.”
“When one entrepreneur succeeds, that knowledge flowsforward to the next generation. That’s how we build long-term prosperity together.”
Indigenous Launchpad is currently seeking experienced entrepreneurs and business leaders who are ready to share their knowledge and help strengthen Indigenous business success across communities.