About the Facilitator:
Carolyn Barker Brown,
Loan Officer and Small Business Advisor for Community FuturesIndigenous Arts Collective of Canada.
Carolyn Barker Brown joined Community Futures in 2005. Carolyn was born and raised in Bancroft and grew up in an entrepreneurial family working for the family business.
She is a graduate of Loyalist College with a certificate in Small Business Bookkeeping and operated her own Bookkeeping business for 15 years. In 2012 Carolyn acquired the position as Loan Officer and Small Business Advisor for Community Futures.
Carolyn has a passion to ensure that entrepreneurs are successful and offers excellent support to businesses through counselling and training. Most recently she has had intensive training in merchandising and has offered these services to retail businesses.