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April 13
Thomas Wright
The Social Security & Medicare Power Hour. 7 Basics in 60-Minutes!

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April 20
Karin Hurt and David Dye 2024 show 2
Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict

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April 27
Vicky Oliver
8 Ways to Attract Women Back to the Workplace

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May 4
Drew Jones
The Open Culture Handbook

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May 11
Liz Johnston
Responding to a DOL Investigation

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May 18
Ashley Goodall
The Problem with Change

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May 25
TBA
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Jun 1
Tony Martignetti
Campfire Lessons for Leaders

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HR for Hospitality

Saturday, March 18, 2015 @10am

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Our Guest:

Teri Swanson
HR Director
Witham Family Hotels

HR for Hospitality –

Director of Volunteer Services and Maine Coast Lifeline Maine Coast Memorial Hospital

May 2000 – March 2010 (9 years 11 months) Ellsworth

Overseeing 26 departments needs for Volunteers. Seeking to continually build a quality group of Volunteers to serve in these departments. Developing and building a strong community culture that allowed us to be a place of choice.

Our lifeline program serviced people throughout Hancock and Washington Counties. Providing an in-home emergency response service. The process began with the incoming call to our office for service and ended with us going into the field to install the monitors. This took a lot of planning, as we utilized

Volunteers to fulfill this very worthy service.

Semi-Absentee Business Ownership

Saturday, March 11, 2017 @10am

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Our Guest:

Chris CynkarChris Cynkar
Franchise Consultant
FranChoice

412-877-2000
ccynkar@franchoise.com

Semi-Absentee Business Ownership –

Chris Cynkar knows the challenges of finding the perfect business opportunity. For the past 15 years, Chris has walked in the shoes of a business owner. With business ownership experience in multiple industries, Chris possesses the skills necessary to help candidates find the perfect franchise opportunity to achieve their specific goals. After beginning his career with a Big 6 accounting firm and earning his CPA license, Chris spent 3 years working in financial management with 2 rapidly growing companies in the healthcare and manufacturing industries. In 1999, Chris made a career shift from employee to owner. Since he chose business ownership, Chris has owned and operated businesses in a variety of industries including commercial printing, medical equipment, professional services, real estate and healthcare staffing services. In all of these businesses, Chris served as both the lead investor and, more importantly, the leading executive of the company.

Since 2006, Chris has been an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked with hundreds of students to evaluate, plan and start businesses in countless industry segments. In 2011, Chris joined a leading retail franchise as a master franchisee.

Chris has joined FranChoice in order to help candidates benefit from his deep and diverse business ownership experience. Because of the variety of industries in which Chris has direct experience, he is able to assist candidates in evaluating multiple business opportunities with an experienced guide on their side. Chris’ goal is to help every candidate find the franchise opportunity that will help them reach all of their personal and professional goals.

2017 Conference Lineup

Saturday, March 11, 2017 @10am

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Our Guests:

Heather Bassett
Marketing Director

James Brissenden
Event Planner

Strategic HR

2017 Conference Lineup –

Strategic HR U.S, first opened its doors in 1983 as Northern New England Law Publishers and for 30 years has served as an information clearinghouse for the human resources community in Maine. We rely on a thriving network of human resources professionals, labor-management attorneys, and workers’ compensation experts for advice, analysis, and ideas. Our goal is to help you foster healthy relations with your employees, thereby avoiding costly workplace conflict and litigation and allowing you to focus your energy on your products and services.

Products for the Maine and New England human resources community include the annual Maine HR Convention, annual Strategic HR at Mount Washington Retreat, and the annual Maine Workers’ Compensation Summit.