Meet Our Team

Carrie Bartsch

Carrie Bartsch is passionate about helping Organizations, teams, and individuals work to the highest level, feel empowered to bring their ideas and creativity forward and have teams working together cohesively.

Carrie brings forward expertise in facilitation and public speaking, person-centered practices as well as all noted training. Carrie works at every level of an organization bringing forward evidence based tools and approaches to meet your needs. Will take the time to customize all work to ensure you get exactly what will work best for you.

Carrie has worked in the fields of Homelessness, Early Childhood, Disabilities, Respite, Outreach Services, and Business Owner. Past roles have included Program Director, Housing First Specialist, Team Lead, Expert Technical Trainer, Accredited Facilitator, Front Line Case Manager, Business Owner, and Therapy Practitioner.

Carrie has provided integral training and facilitation across Canada and the United States of America. She is currently on the faculty of Expert Technical Trainers for the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, runs Pivotal Training and Facilitation and contracts with Pathways to Housing Institute. To date she has traveled to 46 different communities showing how taking a person centered approach to our work creates positive change to the work lives of each employee and the organization and pe

Shelby bartsch

Shelby is passionate about people. Whether it’s teaching, listening or sharing stories, for her, it’s all about what we can learn from each other. Her training style emphasizes individuals’ skills and talents and she believes that each problem has a solution if you are creative enough.

Shelby started by doing freelance marketing for local businesses which led to a passion for public speaking and ultimately, social justice work.

Before Shelby made the leap to follow in the family facilitator's footsteps, working as a facilitator and doing marketing for CMHA, she found a passion for visual storytelling while solo backpacking around the world. Shelby now focuses her creativity on website design, marketing and training creation and delivery for our team.