After a 20-year corporate career, I transitioned to a career in higher education, instructing business courses. Following a desire to more fully meld my business background with higher education, I earned my Educational Leadership Ph.D. in August 2019, having researched transitions and emerging adults (think young adults), exploring how to successfully support students throughout college and early career life transitions.

Beyond pursing a career in higher education, it is my desire to support and encourage others. In responding to this calling, I began consulting in 2013, with a roll out of a rebranded Shelly Bartosek Consulting late 2019. But my inner voice continued speaking to me, challenging me to do more, and has begun to reveal itself beyond any dream I had previously dared to dream. In the process of embarking upon a new adventure, re-framing consultant into facilitator, I enrolled in the Sedona Women’s Institute Facilitator Training program and renamed my consulting business to –

Circle of Self Discovery

Within this re-imagined opportunity, I curate retreats and workshops for women, who like myself, are navigating the seasons of life. I know your life is full of chaos and you hardly have any time for yourself. That’s my life! Creating Circle of Self Discovery Women’s Retreats was built out of a need to create my own personal space where I might rediscover myself, interests, passions, and experience life on my own terms. Out of this desire emerged a deep calling, a need, to create space where I could invite women to come together. Circle of Self Discovery is all about providing space for you to THRIVE | BLOOM | FLOURISH — Embracing the seasons of your life, celebrating the very individual journey of living as experienced and valued by you.