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Saturday, July 3, 2021 @ 10am
Ryan Estis
Show Topic:
Leaders need to have the courage and conviction to use the trust they have built-in their organizations to pursue and influence the rapid and difficult changes that are happening today.
Ryan Estis of ryanestis.com is a national speaker, consultant, coach, and advisor who speaks with HRPH’s host David Ciullo on the personal growth, innovation and leadership skills needed in 2021 and beyond.
About The Guest:
Ryan Estis understands the challenges business leaders and top performers face because he’s been in their shoes.
He spent 15 years helping companies connect with employees and customers as a former ad agency executive and Chief Strategy Officer inside McCann World Group, building a client roster of category-leading brands.
Ten years ago, he decided to put that experience into practice and launch his own learning and advisory organization. Ryan is afforded an inside look at what the world’s best companies do to sustain an advantage and he shares that insight by helping clients initiate change, improve performance and deliver growth. Ryan has been recognized as one of “the best keynote speakers seen or heard” by Meetings & Conventions magazine. His writing has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, and Entrepreneur Magazines.
Ryan’s consulting and advisory work addresses leadership, sales, and strategy challenges. Ryan provides a unique blend of experience, perspective, and process to help executive teams navigate the increasingly complex business landscape and find solutions that deliver growth. His client roster includes many of the world’s most admired companies including IBM, Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, The National Basketball Association, Mayo Clinic, Disney, Morgan Stanley, State Farm Insurance, Lowe’s, CVS, P&G, and AT&T.
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Saturday, June 26, 2021 @ 10am
Mike Vien
Show Topic:
Wellness benefits are great; if your company offers something your employees want.
Imagine, however, a wellness program that provides employees with the exact wellness benefits they want or are already investing in?
The good news is, you don’t have to imagine it, because that is what Wallit provides. Join Tawny as she interviews Mike Vien, CEO and Founder of Wallit, the card-linked benefits platform and wellness wallet that makes work-life integration simpler, more productive, and more rewarding.
Mike will explain Wallit’s functionality and how it is revolutionizing how companies provide employees with the benefits that they really want and need, while aligning the workforce around shared business objectives to achieve business outcomes at the same time.
Flexibility really is key, and as employees return to the office, they will be seeking that even more than before, thus requiring businesses to meet those expectations in order to retain the top talent.
About The Guest:
Mike Vien is the CEO and co-founder of Wallit, an enterprise wellness platform for modern teams. For more than 25 years, he has been a senior executive and entrepreneur working at the intersection of financial services, health and benefits, and technology.
Previous to Wallit, Mike was CEO of Vetr, a crowdsourced financial research platform and collaborative marketplace for investment research and analysis. He additionally held many senior leadership roles at leading asset management firms, including Fidelity Investments and Mercer.
Mike’s experience includes serving as Senior Vice President of Fidelity Investment’s Registered Investment Advisor Group; co-founder, Vice President and General Manager of Fidelity Trustnet®; Program Manager of Fidelity.com; US Business Leader at Mercer; Global Managing Director & Head of Business Advisory Services at Wipro Technologies; and Chief Operating Officer of a multi-billion dollar private Asset Management company in Boston, Shepherd Kaplan.
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Saturday, June 19, 2021 @ 10am

Wayne Edwards and Steve Borne
Show Topic:
New employees to the workforce expect to have info at their digital fingertips and employers are looking for new ways to remove barriers to what they need faster.
Imagine a modern training and technology that resembles “PokémonGo” and improves quality and operations by more than50%. It’s not a dream, it’s Augmented Reality (AR) the next tool for HR and Business, and it’s coming to your business sooner than you think.
Listen to Wayne Edwards, Augmented Reality Specialist at PTC, and Steve Borne, Solutions Sales Executive from Scone discuss with host CMA’s David Ciullo this new and exciting technology.
About The Guest:
Steven Borne is a Senior Solutions Sales Executive with Sconce, a PTC platinum partner. Borne helps firms leverage PTC’s Computer-Aided Design (Creo CAD), Product Lifecycle Management (Windchill PLM), Industrial IoT (Thingworx platform), and Augmented Reality (Vuforia) software to drive business improvements and Sconce services to assure firms achieve the financial impact they expect from technology investments.
After more than a decade of Competitive and Market Intelligence services sales, Borne is back in his technology environment as industrial Augmented Reality is changing the way workers are trained and supported on the job. The transformation is similar to Borne’s marketing experience in the early 2000s when he was speaking at Telecommunications conferences, publishing articles, and evangelizing to the evolving wireless communications industry about how the world will change with what all know as today’s smartphones and applications.
Prior to making the sales/marketing transition Borne held various engineering and Program Management roles in the Schneider Electric Industrial Automation division. His career started in controls engineering, automating processes, and discrete manufacturing lines.
Borne earned his MBA from the D’Amore-Mckim School of Business at Northeastern University, graduating Beta Gamma Sigma. Borne holds a BS in Mechanical Engineer from the University of New Hampshire along with a minor in Ocean Engineering.
In New Hampshire, non-partisan politics Borne is known for his NH Common Denominator Newsletter and as President of the Rye Civic League. In 2019, Borne published his first book, Consuming Government.
The leading PTC Augmented Reality subject expert matter, Wayne is at the forefront of working with firms searching for business challenges solutions and competitive advantages. Even through Covid he has been constantly traveling to firms as they can experience what Augmented Reality feels like on their floor with their applications. He has developed expertise in improving how frontline workers operate and mitigate time to productivity.
Wayne has 25+ years’ experience helping customers in various industries improve business performance utilizing technology to optimize key processes, now called Digital Transformation.. Prior to his Augmented Reality focus, Wayne helped firms leverage their information working for PTC, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Autodesk, Agile Software and Arena Solutions.
Wayne attained his B.A in Marketing and Management Systems from Lander University, where he played varsity soccer.
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Saturday, June 12, 2021 @ 10am

Mary Axelsen
Show Topic:
On this episode of HR Power Hour, join host Tawny Alvarez as she talks to WeMaax Consulting Founder & CEO Mary Axelsen about CARE Change Framework and the work that WeMaax Consulting does in the Change Leadership arena.
From coaching circles to one-on-one leadership development programs on this episode we will discuss how organizations and leaders can bring their leadership team to the next level and how WeMaax helps leaders overcome many of the self-created impediments to change.
About The Guest:
Mary Axelsen is the Founder & CEO of WeMaax Consulting and a former global HR Executive with a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Southern New Hampshire University.
She comes with 20 years of experience consulting with and coaching global leaders and employees in all areas of HR. She has partnered with leaders to implement transformative change in a wide range of industries and functions across the globe to include:
•Fortune 500, public, private, nonprofit organizations; industries include Biotechnology, Financial Services, Insurance, Retail, Healthcare•Functions: IT, Supply Chain, Procurement, Sales, Marketing, Benefits, Operations, R&D.
She holds certifications in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion from Bentley University, Change Styles Indicator from MHS Assessments, 360 assessments from TeamTelligent, and Essential Facilitation from Interaction Associates. Her areas of specialty are organizational design, organizational and culture change, talent strategies, diversity, equity, and inclusion (emphasis on gender equity), and coaching. She is also an Olympia Leader Advisor with Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute and sits on the Governance Board for The Dempsey Center. She enjoys golfing, traveling, and spending time with her family and friends.
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