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Saturday, August 24, 2013
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Our Guest:
Katy Rand,
Partner
Pierce Atwood, LLC
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Having worked in HR and management in the private sector, Katy brings hands-on experience to her practice. Her client work primarily involves employment law, with a focus on discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage / hour issues.
Katy has litigated a number of employment cases in state and federal court, and routinely represents employers before the Maine Human Rights Commission. In addition, she advises employers on employment related matters including employee relations issues, performance management, leaves of absence, and the reasonable accommodation process.
After college and before attending law school, Katy completed a management training program with Hannaford Brothers Company and worked for this major New England grocery retailer in various capacities, including as a department manager and department specialist, managing inventory and margins, addressing employee relations issues, implementing corporate marketing programs, and preparing for new store openings in North Carolina and Virginia.
In addition, Katy has experience as a Human Resources Consultant at L.L. Bean, where she helped managers navigate the kinds of issues she advises her clients on today. After earning her law degree, Katy clerked for United States District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
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Amy Volk
State Rep for House District 127
Scarborough, Maine
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Amy Volk is the State Representative for House District 127, which includes part of Scarborough in Cumberland County.
She has been appointed to serve on the Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee for the 125th Maine State Legislature. Rep. Volk resides in Scarborough with her husband Derek, the Vice President of a third-generation family business, Volk Packaging Corporation. They have four children.
Rep. Volk is active in the local community as the Board Secretary for the Root Cellar, a founding member of the Scarborough Young Life Advisory Committee, a member of Moms in Touch (Scarborough Chapter), and a member of the Church of the Holy Spirit Parish Council. She has also served as the Board Secretary of The Children’s Theatre of Maine.
A graduate of Catherine McAuley High School in Portland, Rep. Volk went on to earn a B.S. in Human Development from the University of Maine. In addition to her legislative duties and community involvement Rep. Volk owns a small business and she has also worked as a substitute teacher. Rep. Volk’s personal interests include spending time with her family, running, Pilates, weight training, reading, and singing in her church’s worship band. She is also an expert softball, soccer, and figure skating spectator.
Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 10am
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Guests:
Chris Arsenault,
HR Manager of Domestic Manufacturing
New Balance
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A talented and highly adaptable leader, Chris is dedicated to ensuring that Human Resource leadership is strategic, visible, adaptable, and trusted across business units.
Chris is highly regarded and sought out for his expertise in Associate Communications, Associate Relations, Workforce Planning, Strategic Business Planning, Training and Development, Team Leadership, Performance Management, and Workers Compensation Case Management.
His ability to adapt and apply problem solving methodology and HR Metrics to move the business forward has been critical to the transformation of the HR organization – all in support of New Balance’s lean manufacturing environment, the last manufacturer of athletic footwear in the U.S.
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Mark Holmes,
President
Health Coaches Inc.
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Health Coaches is a business that Mark Holmes has prepared for all his professional life.
At the Bay Club, one of Portland’s foremost fitness centers, he was general manager and led the development of a key partnership with a national physical therapy group. He also was responsible for training and mentoring the club’s personal fitness staff. In Camden, he created and directed comprehensive corporate health programs for Fortune 100 companies.
In New York, Mark was sales director for Miavita, a groundbreaking online corporate health and wellness program. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in health education from the University of Maine, with a concentration in human anatomy and exercise physiology.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
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Our Guest:
Kevin Sheridan,
National Keynote Speaker
New York Times Bestselling Author
Chief Engagement Officer
Kevin Sheridan LLC
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For nearly 30 years, Kevin Sheridan has been a high-level Human Capital Management Consultant. Previously he was the Founder, Chief Engagement Officer, and Chief Consultant of HR Solutions International, a company he started March of 1995, specializing in teaching the best-practices of employee engagement and the measurement thereof.
In December 2011, Kevin sold HR Solutions and founded Kevin Sheridan LLC a management Consultancy focused on employee engagement, dynamic keynote speeches, and magnetic leadership development advice.
Having consulted for some of the worlds largest corporations, Kevin has earned several distinctive awards and honors. His newest innovation, PEER®, is constantly recognized as a long overdue industry changing innovation in the field of employee engagement. One of his of his notable recognitions was for the creations of HR360, which won Human Resource Executive Magazine’s HR Product of the Year award.
Kevin is a best selling author of Building a Magnetic Culture, published by McGraw-Hill, which appeared on six bestseller lists, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Virtual Manager, published by Career Press; a book which offers cutting edge solutions to successfully manage remote workers and virtual teams.
In addition Kevin has been featured in several other books, including The Great Employee Handbook, Business Lessons from the Edge, The Most Dangerous Business Book You’ll Ever Read, Business Confidential: Lessons for Corporate Success from Inside the CIA, and Perspectives on Managing Employees. He is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conventions, most recently sharing the keynote stage with David Ulrich at the HR Summit in Dubai.
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