Specialist consultants I work with

Charlee Sereda designs and implements the operational systems organizations rely on as they scale. Her work spans CRM and data infrastructure, program design, and workflow automation, with a focus on structures that hold up in practice rather than on paper. She brings four years in economic development and innovation ecosystems to that work, most recently as Program Manager for the Regional Innovation Network of Southern Alberta at Economic Development Lethbridge, where she worked directly with founders building technology ventures.

Charlee is engaged on Summit Stream projects where systems design, data structure, and operational execution determine whether an initiative delivers. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media from the University of Lethbridge, serves as Secretary on the board of the Southern Alberta Self Help Association, and was named a 2026 Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce Top 40 Under 40 honouree.

Suzanne has more than 20 years of consulting experience spanning entrepreneurship launch and scale-up, strategic planning, change management, business process improvement, project management, compensation reviews, and HR policy and organizational effectiveness. She works across Indigenous communities, provincial departments, unionized organizations, large private corporations, entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations, and leads community engagement discussions with multiple stakeholder groups. Her approach is collaborative and practical: she equips clients with the policies, processes, tools, and plans required to act on the decisions they make.

She founded Mission Ignite Management Consulting Inc. in 2014 and has been a founding partner in several franchise operations. As Executive Manager and Senior Business Advisor with YW Calgary's Economic Prosperity team, she leads programming for women founders, including the Vision to Venture workshops. She contributes to Summit Stream initiatives requiring organizational design, change management, and entrepreneur development expertise.

Credentials include an MBA specializing in Executive Management, Fellow of the Certified Management Consultants (FCMC), Certified Professional in Human Resources (CPHR), Prosci Change Management certification, a Certificate in E-Learning and Adult Learning, International Association of Public Participation certification (Foundations, Planning, and Techniques), and Strategic Doing certification. She has also completed coursework in the University of Calgary Continuing Education Professional Management Certificate for Economic Developers, including Foundations, Investment and Attraction, and Retention and Expansion.

Suzanne grew up in Medicine Hat and now calls Calgary home, where she fosters for the Cochrane Humane Society and keeps bees.

Linnden King designs and implements AI systems that organizations can integrate into their daily work. Her approach begins with how a business makes decisions and produces work, then establishes defined AI roles for drafting, refining, quality control, and the handoffs between them. She focuses on practical structures that teams can operate independently and sustain over time.

Linnden is engaged on Summit Stream projects where emerging technology adoption needs to move from interest into practice, particularly in marketing, content, and internal operations. She operates several businesses using the systems she teaches, including a Lethbridge healthcare group spanning family medicine, wellness, dermatology, advanced aesthetics, and pharmacy, and a Canadian retail brand. She delivers her expertise through workshops, a structured course, and implementation engagements.

Ron brings formal Human Resources education together with more than three decades of practical workplace experience in training, recruitment, supervision, coaching, safety and frontline operations. His career has given him the opportunity to see the workplace from several perspectives: as an employee learning the job, a trainer helping others develop, a supervisor responsible for performance, and an HR professional supporting people and organizations.

During his 17-year career with Pratt and Whitney Canada, he rotated from trainee to on-the-job trainer across departments and eventually as Training Coordinator. Ron also helped create and deliver two-week New Hire Orientation programs combining technical training, safety, workplace expectations and organizational culture.

He also facilitated the hiring side of that work, assessing resumes, conducting interviews, and selecting candidates, which gave him a direct line of sight from selection through to a new employee's first weeks on the floor.

Ron holds a Post Diploma Bachelor of Management in Human Resources and Labour Relations from the University of Lethbridge and a Diploma in Business Administration and Management from Lethbridge College.

His professional development in human resources includes a Skill Instructors Course, Train the Trainer certification, Team Development Training, Communication and Problem Solving Training, Workplace Health and Safety Auditor Training, and Standard First Aid and CPR.