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Connections and Leadership

Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 2pm

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Josh Fifield

Clark Insurance

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My title at Clark Insurance is Account Executive. I am responsible for the continued successful growth of Clark Insurance as an employee owned company by providing comprehensive business insurance services.

I joined Clark Insurance in 2008. Our excellent reputation and our commitment to our customers has driven the success of the agency since 1931. My unique background in workers’ compensation allows me to assist my customers in proactive ways to control their insurance cost through claims management, safety training, and awareness as well as negotiating competitive insurance premiums.

I tie in offering to review any contracts my clients enter into to ensure their insurance program meets or exceeds the requirements of the contract. I pride myself on product knowledge and the ability to identify gaps in insurance coverage along with reasonable solutions. Clark Insurance is a full service insurance agency. We offer business and personal insurance as well as employee benefits and bonds.

We have a dedicated in house claims department as well as an employed loss control consultant. We believe in providing our customer with the tools to be proactive as well as the support for when a claim does occur. Our motto is “Covered with Confidence” and we take that to heart when working for our clients.

 

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Murray Johannsen

The Leadership Site: www.legacee.com 

 The Learning Site: webleadershipclasses.com  

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Murray is a part-time professor and a full-time entrepreneur. On the university side, he teaches leadership classes in both Asian and American universities such as UCLA and Korea University in Seoul.

Besides classes on leadership, he also teaches live and online classes in the areas of psychology and entrepreneurship. On the business side, Murray Johannsen is the president of Legacee, a Los Angeles-based coaching and training firm specializing in the leadership foundation skills and transformational leadership – a critical style for entrepreneurs and executives to master.

Social Capital and Conventions

Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 2-3pm

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Martin Snyder,
President
Main Sequence Technology

Recruitment Trends –

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Mr. Snyder has been President of Main Sequence Technology since 1998. Main Sequence is the vendor of PCRecruiter, one of the most widely used recruitment database platforms for third-party, direct hire, and non-profit organizations around the world and across business models.

Founded in 1998, Main Sequence Technology, Inc. provides talent acquisition solutions wherever and however teams are built. PCRecruiter, our flagship solution, has been selected over 2,700 times by a diverse array of corporations, staffing firms, third-party recruitment firms, educational institutions, and other types of organizations. The company is a closely held, private Ohio corporation. There are four shareholders, each active in the management and operation of the company, and approximately 40 employees.

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Bud Bernstein
CEO

The MaineHR.com/Law Publishers

Bud is the CEO of a Portland, Maine company that produces the Maine HR Convention, the Maine Workers’ Compensation Summit, and the Strategic HR New England retreat. An attorney and writer by training, he has turned his focus in recent years to creating unique conferences and alliances that promote the role of human resources.

His motto is, “Everyone thrives when HR is on top of its game, because HR is the bridge to all parts of an enterprise.”

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Heather Bassett

Northern New England Law Publishers

Heather manages marketing and PR at Northern New England Law Publishers – producers of the Maine HR Convention, the Maine Workers’ Compensation Summit, Strategic HR New England Retreat, and the Maine Employer’s Handbook.

Heather’s experience includes over twelve years in the field of human resources and recruiting. She earned her BS in Allied Health and Medical with a minor in Anthropology and Sociology at Johnson State College in Vermont.

When Heather is not organizing conferences for the HR community in New England, she can be found snowboarding on the slopes of Sugarloaf, playing with her toddler Carra Bassett, running with her Border Collie, and having fun with her family.

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Mentoring

Saturday, February 23, 2013

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Kathy Kilroy 

The Mentor Group

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President and Co-founder of The Mentor Group Inc., a leading career management firm founded in 1988. The Mentor Group provides services to enhance organizational effectiveness and support individual development and success. Services include: Leadership Assessment, Executive Coaching, High Impact Mentoring, Career Development, Outplacement and Lifestyle Transition Planning for Retirement.

The Mentor Group is a member of Lincolnshire International and Arbora Global Career Partners with offices in over 180 cities worldwide. Kathy serves on the Board of Directors for the US Affiliates. Kathy has a passion for mentoring and developing leaders. She is highly regarded for her ability to develop customized talent management strategies for organizations and for coaching leaders to leverage their strengths to achieve peak performance and to deliver business results.

Her clients and experience span Fortune 500 companies to start-ups in a variety of industries. She is known for action and results and bringing out the best in people. Kathy is committed to mentoring women and helping them excel in their careers and to achieve better work-life integration. She is the founder and sponsor of the Career Mentoring Alliance focused on providing leadership development and building professional networks and alliances for female leaders and entrepreneurs. Kathy serves as a Leadership Coach for the University of Illinois Leadership Certificate Program and coaches Business students as the plan and launch their careers.

Kathy serves as a board member and volunteer for The Lake County Haven, a social service agency dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless women and children. She is an active fundraiser and as a Mentor, prepares women to seek and secure employment opportunities as they rebuild their lives to live independently. Prior to establishing The Mentor Group Inc. Kathy’s experience includes international marketing and management experience in manufacturing and banking. Kathy earned undergraduate degrees in Marketing and Psychology from Western Michigan University and has completed numerous professional development programs and certifications in career development, life work planning, coaching and counseling.

She is a member of The Association of Career Firms International (ACF), a member and former board member of the International Association of Career Professionals (ICP), and the Human Resource Association of Chicago (HRMAC). Contact Kathy Kilroy at: 847-215-6110 Ext. 230 or kkilroy@mentorgroup.com

Career Fairs and Employment Assistance Programs

Saturday, February 16, 2013

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Guests:

Julie Arsenault
Advertising Sales Consultant

Portland Press Herald
Monster.com

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Account Executive at The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram specializing in recruitment advertising for Mainejobs.com & Monster.com. Since joining the paper in 2004, Julie has been recognized by Monster.com for high sales performance, received Employee of the Quarter three times, & continues to be a marketing/recruitment resource for companies around the  state.

In addition to her passion for her career, Julie is also the Vice President of the Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce.  Her marketing experience helped launch the Chamber’s Buy Local Campaign, Seasons Greeeting Saturday and numerous other events.  She was recently recognized as the Chambers 2012 Volunteer of the Year.  Julie resides in Windham with her family and can be reached at jarsenault@pressherald.com or 207.615.2497.

 

Steve Stevens
President/CEO

Stevens Wellspring Group

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Richard G. (Steve) Stevens Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Stevens Wellspring Group, a Maine based company currently providing employee assistance and loss prevention programs to organizations of all sizes and types. Mr. Stevens entered the medical field in 1976 and held a variety of positions ranging from consulting surgeons in the operating room to training surgeons throughout the United States in the use of surgical stapling instrumentation for the United States Surgical Corporation.

Mr. Stevens also served as a consultant to inventors of state-of-the-art medical products, assisting in the development of criteria for clinical trials, and establishing a national sales force to introduce new products to the marketplace. Mr. Stevens became the National Sales and Marketing Manager for Clinical Data Systems a national provider of Holter monitoring services throughout the United States with offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. While in this position he introduced newly invented ambulatory blood monitoring services to the medical field throughout the company’s entire service area.

In the mid-90s Mr. Stevens Joined Affiliated Healthcare systems as a sales manager and moved into a position as the CEO of Affiliated’s Employee Assistance Program. In 1999 Steve formed The Stevens Wellspring Group initially only providing EAP Programs and has since expanded its services, which currently include but are not limited to: Wellness, EAP and Work-Life, Legal, Financial  concierge, etc. All of Stevens Wellspring Programs are currently available on local, national and international bases.

He is a proud Dad of 7 children with 12 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. His interests are renovation of buildings on the National Historical Register, Golf, Skiing, Automobile Racing and current restoration of an old 57 TR3.