6:30 am - 5:00 pm
Registration
6:45 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
7:00 am - 7:45 am
Holistic Wellness with Healthy Life Resources
Join us for a mind-body conditioning practice. We’ll practice mind-body activities and exercises to reduce burnout, decrease stress, and increase resilience. Participants will learn strategies, tools, and activities for use in your own organization. Healthy Life Resources will lead holistic resilience activities for a healthy start to your day. Join us for this active mind-body session!
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Maine Great Leader Series
Maine Great Leader Session is FULL
Messer Truck Equipment and Chalmers Insurance Group New Thinking from 4th Generation Maine Businesses
Why you’ll want to attend. Family-Owned Business Power! We are delighted to welcome to the breakfast table Jeff Messer, President of Messer Truck Equipment in Westbrook and Dottie Chalmers Cutter, VP of Operations at Chalmers Insurance Group in Bridgton, both of whom serve on the Board of the Institute for Family-Owned Business. We’ll start with their stories, because the roots of these companies go deep. Dottie and Jeff are the fourth generations of their families to continue the business. Chalmers Insurance opened its doors in 1857, and Messer Truck Equipment started as a blacksmithing shop in Portland in 1899. And here they are today, with a wave of fresh thinking for our attendees on the issues described below. Moderated by Dave Vasconcelos and Bud Bernstein.
What’s it all about?
- Learn about the HR traditions and business platforms at these two companies.
- Discover the mission and underlying values that have been able to stand the test of time and the role that generational shift has played.
- Hear about the nimbleness, adaptability, and innovation required to sustain the long term.
- Witness their community connections and how giving back to their employees and to the surrounding towns, both serves their values and business models.
Approved for SHRM credit and HRCI Business Credit
Program Faculty: Dave Vasconcelos, Dottie Chalmers Cutter, Jeff Messer
8:30 am - 9:45 am
KEYNOTE: Two-Step Decision Making
For your next level of leadership
Why you’ll want to attend. Empowerment! Following up on her Monday afternoon Convention conversation, Neha Sangwan, MD wants to know if you have “decision fatigue?” Have you missed key opportunities because you couldn’t make up your mind? You know, when you waffle over making a decision that should be simpler than it feels. And what do you do, when in today’s world, many decisions have to be made with a high degree of uncertainty and unknown? You make dozens of decisions every day ranging from the simple to the complex. It’s a process you’ll want to master as you consider the strength of your leadership and your aspiration to the next level of leadership. In whatever career aspiration you have, you’ll want to know how to make quick, effective, clear decisions. In what if, in only two simple steps, you could be making the right decision…every time.
What’s it all about?
- Discover a two-step process where you will enhance your decision-making and leadership effectiveness.
- Engage in an exercise that will help you consider areas in which you are confident about your decision-making process. Flipside of that coin – what decisions do you struggle with?
- Discover how to frame a situation for effective decision making, particularly for those situations creating anxiety and uncertainty.
- Learn how to make decisions that connect to what matters most to you, and in the process elevate your game as a human resource professional and as a human navigating extraordinary times.
Approved for SHRM credit and HRCI Business Credit
Program Faculty: Neha Sangwan, M.D.
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Book Signing
Meet Dr. Neha and get your copy of her book signed.
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Break Time
Visit the EXPO. Support our Sponsors. Grab a coffee sensation from Bard and a Holy Donut. And visit the Convention bookstore, open 9 AM – 1 PM.
BARISTA SPONSOR:
MOBILE HUB SPONSOR:
10:15 am - 11:45 am
Choice of Three MegaSessions
*HR Basic Training Session is FULL
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Choice of Three MegaSessions
*HR Basic Training Session is FULL
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Mindful Movement Moment with Healthy Life Resources
Join us for an active mind-body break to increase energy and build resilience. Healthy Life Resources will lead refreshing mind-body activities to engage and energize. The skills learned will give you wellness break tools to use in your own organization. Join us for this active mind-body break!
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Dessert Break
Visit the EXPO. Support our Sponsors. Grab a coffee. Visit the Convention bookstore.
BARISTA SPONSOR:
MOBILE HUB SPONSOR:
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
KEYNOTE: Emerging Leadership
Gateway to a Sustainable Maine Economy
Why you’ll want to attend. Imagine working for a company that creates backpacks out of recycled sailcloth. Or turns to the ocean for innovative products from sustainably farmed sea greens. Or is building an online employee wellbeing platform. Or better yet, imagine young friends or family members and where they want to work. In this session we visit with Kristan Crow from Atlantic Sea Farms in Biddeford, Devin McNeill from Flowfold in Gorham, and James Brissenden from LifeGuides (formerly on staff with the Maine HR Convention). They will share their personal journeys, the stories of their companies, and how they are helping build the next generation of business. Moderated by Ron Schneider from Bernstein Shur in Portland.
What’s it all about?
- Consider the advantages and challenges companies built on sustainable environmental ethics and corporate social responsibility face with generational recruiting and building sustainable business enterprises.
- Discuss how these enterprises intend to uphold their mission and values as they grow and scale their HR functions.
- And, in a fireside chat, engage with these leaders about progressive HR practices for the future.
Approved for SHRM credit and HRCI Business Credit
Program Faculty: Devin McNeill, James Brissenden, Kristan Crow, Ron Schneider4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Wednesday Reception
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Evening Entertainment
with DJ Kevin Duran!
Monday, May 9, 2022 Tuesday, May 10, 2022 Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Thursday, May 12, 2022
