Revolutionizing Feedback Delivery Through a Positive Approach
Transform cultures, empower professionals, and foster collaborative growth.
Transform cultures, empower professionals, and foster collaborative growth.
Change Positive transforms the feedback experience by leveraging positive psychology and social support through our unique Shift Positive® Method. We inspire individuals and organizations to embrace a culture that values open dialogue, transparency, constructive feedback, and collaborative growth where staff become an ally to one another in their professional development.
We train coaches, learning and development professionals, and human resource professionals in the Shift Positive 360® and transform cultures through organizational training including; executive and leadership development, manager training, team training, and company-wide offerings. Further, we offer the AI enabled Shift Positive Empowered technology platform so that any employee can create their own social network of support in their professional development. We continue to develop and refine the most recent advances in the experience of feedback.
Change Positive was co-founded in 2016 by Pete Berridge and Jen Ostrich and they co-created the Shift Positive® Method.
Pete Berridge, MAPP, PCCCEO Change Positive
Jamie Shapiro, PhDPartner/Advisor Change Positive
Jenny Peterson, PhD, PCCShift Partner & Corporate Solutions
Holly O'Hanlon, PCC, NBC-HWCShift Partner & Corporate Solutions
Molly Conlin Peterson, PCC, MAShift Partner & Corporate Solutions
Nikki ShultzShift Partner
Kristen Ell, ACCShift Partner & Certifications
Chris Diller, ACCShift Partner & Technology
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Pete is an accomplished coach and facilitator who utilizes the sciences of Positive Psychology and executive coaching to help leaders, teams, and organizations be more engaged, effective, and productive. Pete became a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara and is faculty with the Center for Coaching Organizations.
He is one of the first 200 people in the world with a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) degree from the University of Pennsylvania, the study of human strengths and well-being, and employs proven methods to promote the flourishing of people, organizations, and communities. It is with this training that the Shift Positive 360® was born. Pete was determined to bring the benefits of Positive Psychology into the feedback process, which led him to co-create Change Positive, LLC.
Pete has 25+ years of coaching (more than 5,000 hours of individual coaching), facilitation, and Human Resources leadership experience. Pete's passion is coaching senior executives, rising leaders, teams, and organizations that are navigating challenges and charting new directions. He's excited to bring the Shift Positive® Method to the world as co-author of the #1 New Release Feedback Reimagined, endorsed by Shawn Achor and Marshall Goldsmith.
We all share basic human drivers: competence—wanting to be good at what we do; significance—making a difference; belonging—being connected to others; and autonomy—having a sense of control in our lives. Feedback is critical for meeting these basic human drivers. Done well, it can lead to growth and engagement. Done poorly, it can be devastating. My passion is helping leaders master this skill and enable workplaces to truly be places of growth, development and human flourishing.
Jamie Shapiro, Founder/CEO of ConnectedEC is a CEO coach, leader in positive organizational psychology and the bestselling author of Brilliant, Be the Leader Who Shines Brightly Without Burning Out. She is a Master Certified Executive Leadership Coach, professional speaker, researcher, facilitator, and nutritionist. Having experienced burnout in the corporate world, she understands the incredible pressure we face in our lives and the difficulty in staying connected to professional and personal goals in demanding environments. Through her corporate career, she realized the toll that high pressure, stressful and demanding roles can take. She left the corporate world with a mission to make changes for people and organizations.
Jamie has been coaching and developing high performing teams since 1998 in executive roles within large-scale corporate companies and now externally. She specializes with CEOs and executive teams within leading companies.
As an Executive Coach, Jamie focuses on helping leaders develop a keen awareness of how both their health and mindset impact leadership performance. Jamie's vision is to bring a new form of full body coaching to people in the business world. Jamie brings extensive corporate experience and technology expertise to make the Shift Positive Method a fully integrated and scalable platform.
Life is never a straight line and Jenny has experienced this first hand. As a high school senior, she broke her neck in a downhill skiing accident, becoming quadriplegic. For Jenny, this took her on what would become a familiar path of challenge, belief, preparation, action and achievement. Leaders have an inner voice and desire to do more; be more; contribute more. Jenny doesn't know your path, yet has the experience and approach to help you find your way especially when the road gets bumpy.
Jenny has been on this path time and again. It has led her to complete a master's degree in Leadership; become the world record holder in Archery at the Paralympic level; become the first recipient of a service dog in Minnesota and get access laws passed for service dogs; become executive director of Helping Paws of Minnesota furthering services to people with disabilities; become a certified executive coach; climb the pyramids of Mexico; compete in a three-day adventure race through the Colorado Rockies (biking, hiking, white water rafting, repelling and orienteering); build a wheelchair accessible cabin in the deep north woods of Minnesota; attain a PhD in Organizational Psychology studying the relationship between emotional intelligence and compassion fatigue in physicians; write a book, The Joy Journal utilizing neuroscience, positive psychology, mindfulness and art expression to help people find small moments of joy every day; become a certified facilitator of Dr. Brené Brown's work including Dare to Lead™, Daring Greatly™ and Rising Strong™; and bike across the United States (virtually on an electric stimulus bike) during Covid; and currently, compete against able bodied individuals in an accessible carriage with her horse, Joy, in equestrian competitions.
Tenacity, purpose with a dash of sass best describes how Jenny shows up. She is a mission driven executive coach, facilitator, and author who empowers others to live life on purpose. She creates safe, supportive, and challenging relationships where participants can explore and find their individual way to success and wellbeing. She helps people unpack the "stuff" that no longer serves them, and challenges them to create a new, intentional life so that they can live into their biggest boldest selves.
Jenny's facilitation and coaching combines emotional intelligence, heart work, resilience and mindfulness to help people become aware of what is preventing them from leading the life they desire, and to move forward with courage, compassion and vulnerability. For more than eighteen years, she's coached leaders and teams to engage with purpose and meaning, and worked with individuals to break through the outside noise to find their own, unique path.
Holly started her career in corporate marketing serving in various leadership roles. Throughout her 15-year career she discovered she loved leading a team; helping them feel heard, empowered, and effective with a strong sense of well-being. She also eventually discovered she didn't love marketing and had a desire for more meaningful conversations during her days and an increased understanding of what great leadership is, what true well-being looks like at work (spoiler: it's not ping pong tables), and how the two are intertwined (spoiler #2: very!).
Holly is now a Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Executive Coach, and certified in Shift Positive®. She coaches stressed and overwhelmed leaders who want to reclaim their energy, confidence, and overall well-being, and teams who want to work together more effectively and positively.
Holly brings a mix of empathy, curiosity, directness, and humor to all of her coaching conversations and trainings. She believes in the power of positive psychology and strengths-based coaching and that people thrive in leadership when they have the space and time to increase their self-awareness and well-being, and clarify their desired future. Through powerful coaching, Shift Positive®, and Dare to Lead™ facilitation, she helps clients get clear on how they want to show up in the world and with others and take consistent action in creating that reality.
When she's not coaching, she's a mother of two dynamic daughters who loves to be in nature as much as possible, is currently learning to play piano, loves to explore, and above all, spend time with her family and friends.
Molly combines executive coaching and group facilitation experience with curated practices from positive psychology and Dr. Brené Brown's research. Over the past 25 years, she has helped thousands of executives from a wide variety of for profit and nonprofit companies realize their full potential. Through her transformative coaching style, she guides leaders to practice courage, lean into solution focused approaches, navigate challenges with grace, and foster high trust, courageous, empowered teams.
Highlights of Molly's education include; Master's Degree in Human Development, ICF PCC Certified Coach, Certified Facilitator of Dare to Lead™, The Daring Way™, Rising Strong™ (Dr. Brené Brown), Certification in Positive Psychology, Shift Positive 360®, and numerous other assessments.
In addition to her own coaching firm, ten years ago, she co-founded The Daring Venture with the aim of transforming leaders and teams from the inside out. She and her partners provide judgment-free spaces to teach courage building skills and provide 360 feedback and training using the Shift Positive® method to leaders and teams.
Personally, Molly loves to be active. She believes "walking cures all things," practices yoga, bikes, loves to share good food, laughter, wine and travel with family and friends. In addition, she gets great joy in cheering on her son—in all things.
Through a blend of research-based practices, compassionate support, and actionable strategies, Molly's warm, enthusiastic style provides a caring space to get to the heart of the matter. In alignment with Positive psychology and Brené Brown's principles, she inspires and empowers leaders to embrace vulnerability, lead with empathy, and create environments where people thrive and excel. With that foundation, clients act with commitment and courage on things that really matter and create and realize a meaningful vision with tangible goals for themselves and their teams.
Nikki is an organizational, team and leadership development coach and consultant. She works with organizations who have ambitious growth goals and intuitively know they will need to evolve to achieve their ambitions. She leads executive teams through an awareness journey at the individual, team and organizational levels by providing the knowledge, skills and coaching support required to enable growth. Practically speaking, Nikki develops the capacities of senior leaders to thrive and lead in highly complex contexts.
While Nikki has years of education and certifications in coaching and business, it is her dedication to do the ongoing inner awareness work she asks of her clients as well as her direct experience as a leader that enable her to bring comprehensive solutions to clients that truly meet their needs. She has over 20 years of experience leading teams from 3 to 300 across the U.S. and world in multiple industries (coatings, retail and healthcare) in multiple functions (product development, supply chain, sourcing, operations, and HR) in different phases of their growth lifecycle (start-up, M&A, established).
Nikki is a pattern spotting strategist, reality grounded optimist, truth telling systems thinker, known for making difficult concepts easy to understand, listening for what is unsaid, shaping new worldviews, and skillfully coaching senior teams to navigate hard topics productively. She happily resides in the woods of Bloomington, MN with her husband of 20+ years, four sons, N+1 bikes, 10 fish, a new puppy, too many houseplants to count, some deer in the backyard, a minivan, and a mug always filled with coffee.
The core foundational elements of Nikki's work include vertical development, polarities, the Enneagram and positive psychology. She focuses on facilitating polarity balance in every layer of the system (individual, team, organizational) as necessary to support growth. This looks like supporting clients to assess and actively manage the Yin/Feminine & Yang/Masculine polarities, including: long-term & short-term thinking, learning & performance, faith & science, collaboration & competition, enterprise & individual, safety & risk, and many more.
Nikki's philosophy is that every person, goal, project, challenge, and experience is in our path to help us awaken to the spirit within. She knows that even saying "spirit" in the context of work can be scary for people, and so she creates the safe, work appropriate, person-centric container to bring it to life.
With 18 years in People Operations Leadership, Kristen has a deep understanding of the many nuances between people and business. Kristen incorporates business savvy with coaching best practices to increase clients' self-awareness and build a resiliency tool-kit to navigate life's intricacies and challenges. As a certified Executive Coach with a passion for learning, Kristen is a proud founding partner with the Center for Coaching in Organizations (CCO) helping further the reach of coaching into non-profits, businesses and underserved communities.
Kristen hold is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional HR Certifications (PHR and SHRM-CP), Shift Positive 360® Certified, Predictive Index Certified Talent Optimization Analyst, Insights Discovery CP, and a Certified Applied Positive Psychology Practitioner.
Kristen is a Minnesota native, and her family (Husband Derek, son Jacob and 2 furchins) enjoy a variety of hobbies, games, crafts, movies, outdoor activities, podcasts, and traveling.
Kristen's core philosophy on coaching can be connected to a quote attributed to psychologist Viktor Frankl: "Between stimulus and behavior there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth, our happiness and our freedom."
Chris is a Product Leader, Leadership Coach, and Agilist with experience ranging from non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 companies in fields spanning retail, healthcare, industrial, commercial, and insurance markets. He began his career developing software in 2006 and has held various roles including as an embedded software developer, project leader, ScrumMaster, product and agile coach, engineering manager, and product director. The constant through that work has been his ability to help teams and leaders better understand their work, each other and themselves.
Chris has a passion for helping individuals and teams "unleash their awesome" to increase their performance, deliver exceptional results, and build products their customer love. Combining his International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach credential with the Certified Team Coach certification from ScrumAlliance, he has focused much of his practice on product teams and emerging leaders—those in the early stages of transitioning to a full-time management position—but has had a range of team and individual clients from vice presidents and directors, to educators and aspiring entrepreneurs.
In 2020, Chris became a Founding Partner of the Center for Coaching in Organizations—a non-profit group focused on accredited executive coach training, workshops, thought-leadership and resources for coaches and organizational leaders. He leads CCO's Technology Committee and has taken an active role in planning the Coaching in Organizations Summit and the Executive Coaching in Organizations Coach Training Program. Chris joined CCO's Board of Directors in July 2021 as Treasurer and moved into the Board Chair role in November 2023.
Chris enjoys being outdoors, playing games of all types, tinkering on the guitar, cheering for the Packers and, most of all, spending time with his wife and two young daughters. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and lives in the Twin Cities.
Chris takes a values-based approach in his work with clients, helping them navigate the "yes, and" of living a multi-faceted life. He brings in elements of positive psychology and mental fitness while striving to evoke new discoveries and lasting change for those he works with. Chris's calm demeanor, deep listening and board perspectives provide support, encouragement and challenge to his clients, leaving them with tangible next-steps towards their personal and career goals.