Shelly Parks spent a career leading professional sales and marketing teams in retirement living start-ups. In 2017, she founded CoVision Consulting to share her skills and knowledge with forming and developing cohousing groups.  As Shelly partners with groups, her goal is to always offer tools to implement best practices and to create strategies for successful membership recruitment.  Shelly is a graduate of Katie McCamant's 500 Communities Program and is now an affiliate of Cohousing Solutions. Shelly and her husband are members of Skagit Cohousing, a developing community in Anacortes, WA. Find her on Facebook.