Welcome, Carolee and Mary!

For the past 25 years, Carolee Colter has consulted for consumer and worker co-ops and other small community-based businesses to create productive and satisfying workplaces.
Carolee can work with your co-op on:

  • Supervision training and team-building for management teams
  • Organizational structure and staffing plans for expansions
  • Employee surveys for monitoring staff treatment
  • Human resource systems audits
  • Assisting boards in hiring and compensating co-op management
  • Pay scales and pay raise systems
  • Co-presenter of “Polish Your Rising Stars,” a three-day leadership seminar designed specifically for department managers of natural food stores. www.risingstarseminar.com

Carolee Colter
250-505-5166
CaroleeColter@cdsconsulting.coop

Mary Courteau has been working with natural food co-ops since 1986 as an experienced general manager and education and development specialist. Among her many accomplishments, she developed the Toolbox series of manuals for small natural food co-ops (now available at www.cgin.coop).

Mary works with co-ops to provide employee surveys that monitor staff treatment and compensation, identify training needs, help set benchmarks for progress and compare results to natural food co-ops across the country.

Mary Courteau
651-699-6836
MaryCourteau@cdsconsulting.coop