Paul Heidema

As the CEO of SparkActa Inc, I lead and support organizational effectiveness with systematic learning, high-leverage practices, thoughtful relationship building, and compassion for my colleagues.

Through my extensive experience working with leaders in organizational and cultural change, I continue to develop intelligent techniques and approaches to enable success. Much of my work has been focused on leadership development, team growth, and the adoption of positive behaviours to accelerate learning and productivity.

I contribute back to the larger community by writing articles on LinkedIn, mentoring people in their career growth, and facilitating workshops and sessions at various meetups and conferences.

"Paul was instrumental in helping support a cultural shift for our division. He was able to not only speak to us about agile concepts but was able show us how to apply them through an active participation and follow up coaching. His approach is open and fresh and he is able to bring life to agile concepts and help you apply them in a way that is unique to your organization and needs."
- Chantal Tomlinson (World Vision Canada)

"I've had the opportunity to work with Paul both at Workopolis and at Aimia. Paul and Berteig Consulting were key to the success of our Agile Transformation at Aimia. Paul was an excellent lead Agile Coach who was able to impart the fundamentals of Agile ways of working in general and of the OpenAgile methodology in specific. His coaching style appealed to all audiences and often helped defuse conflicts during our transformation. I want to thank Paul and Berteig Consulting for ensuring our transformations both at Workopolis and at Aimia attained critical momentum and self- sufficiency. I would highly recommend Paul as an Agile Coach."
- Frank Leong (AIMIA)

“Paul was very instrumental in making the transition from our current project management methodology of waterfall to the Agile-Lean seamless. He is excellent at keeping the group focused, engaged and inspired to want to learn the methodology."
- Steve Georgiou (Equitable Life of Canada) 

“Paul was hired to teach our team at Infonium to become more effective and able to deliver greater value to our clients through Agile methodologies. He was very personable and easily made a good connection with our team by getting to know each of us individually. During our learning process, Paul explained everything in detail, answered any questions with honesty that the team had, helped us resolve any issues, and taught us techniques to help us become more agile. He's helped develop our team into what it is today, and we can thank him and Berteig Consulting for our increase in productivity and a closer and more efficient team.”
- Denis Odorcic (PatientWay by Infonium)

“Paul did a great job training our Development team on Agile XP. His style meshed perfectly with our different personalities and his teachings are still in use with our team to this day. I would not hesitate to recommend Paul and Berteig for converting/updating your Development team on the Agile approach to Development.”
- Jeff Chemeres (Empathica)