Christa Haanstra

Christa is the lead for the Working Caregiver initiative at CCCE, and is the immediate past-chair of Caregivers CAN. With over 25 years of experience as a senior healthcare leader, Christa is the founder and managing director of 4C Strategy group, a company dedicated to advancing meaningful change in healthcare by partnering with organizations to ensure lived experience of patients, residents, clients and caregivers are central to decision making.

Christa believes that family caregivers are the glue that keeps our healthcare system together and partners with organizations including the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence to create awareness and co-create strategies and approaches to improve the lives of caregivers.

Christa is a caregiver to her father who has late-stage Alzheimer’s. Through constant service navigation and advocacy, she strives to create a supportive environment that allows him to live and thrive at home. When not at work, Christa loves to walk, travel and is an avid hobby photographer. She currently lives in Guelph with her family.

Christa holds a degree from the University of Ottawa, a diploma from Seneca College and is an Executive Scholar in Non-Profit Management from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.