I am honored to win the 2016 Community Media Rika Welch leadership award for community impact; a testimony to the Guests who shared their stories on MidLIFE Matters. In addition, an 2018 interview I did with Judith Altmann, a Holocaust Survivor, won an award. In 2020 and 2021 two other awards acknowledged the content of interviews dealing with Child Sex Trafficking in CT and Non-Profit leadership. In 2023 MidLIFE Matters won First Place for a Profile Talk Show. A 2024 award was for a segment on Wellbeing.Hello, thanks for your interest. Following is an overview of my background.
Employment History:
- Author, HR Consultant - G.F. Lussier & Assoc. since 1994
- Management Development, New Opportunities Inc.
- Sr. Director, Retention & Engagement, Masonicare
- Dir., Comp & Performance Management, Travelers - 4 years
- Director, HR Development, AEtna Life & Casualty - 14 years
- Variety of roles at AEtna Life & Casualty, including Manager, Marketing Training; Project Manager, Experimental Claim Office; Manager, Compensation & Productivity Services; Compensation Analyst and Pension Analyst
- Adjudicator, Social Security Disability Benefits, ST of CT - 2 years
Education
~ Masters of Science, Organizational Behavior; U of Hartford
~ Bachelors of Science, English; teaching cert; Central CT State U
~ Certificate, Speed Reading People; a personality assessment tool
~ Certificate, Management Information Systems; U of Hartford
~ Classes: The Hartford Critical & Creative Thinking Center
~ Conferences: Hartford Courant Annual Writers; Healthcare Governance
Publications:
Building Success in the Trades; co-author Bill Lussier
Trades Success books for the Manufacturing and Automotive industries
Copyrighted job evaluation system; partner with Randi Frank
Growing Talent Through Cross-Training
Are Your Star Performers Packing Their Bags? How to Persuade Them to Stay.
Series of Articles, Contractor magazine
Series of Articles, Painting & Decorating Contractor magazine
Article, Trends Veterinarian magazine
55+ Unite: Welcome All Wise Working Women
5 Ways to Grow after 50
Mister Ed, Lucy, Mom & Me
Community Activities
~ Board of Directors ~ Current: HR Chair, CW Resources. Past: Hospital for Special Care; Center for Occupational Development & Education; CT. Morgan Horse Association; CT Traumatic Brain Injury Association.
~ Producer & Host, MidLIFE Matters Community TV; WPAA-TV. Celebrating Women's Wisdom & Wit, since 2012. Winner of 6 regional community TV awards.
~ Writer and Editor, parochial school newsletter
Speaking & Group Engagements:
Mentoring Kick-Off presentation. "3 Admirable Assets" - Financial Company
Transformational Talk Radio - 'Quest for Zest Continues' with host Vicki Todd
Middlesex Chamber of Commerce - Women's Alliance - 'How We Begin Again'
'Fearless Caregiver' panelist - North Haven, CT
Caregiver presentation - Elder Abuse Conference, Agency on Aging of South Central CT
Pay Equity presentation - Murtha Cullina, Labor & Employment Attorneys
Panelist, Greater Hartford Women's Conference, 2016
"Central Authors" - Central Connecticut State University
"Amazing Mid-Life Brain" & "Craft YOUR Own Story" - Connecticut Women's Alliance Conferences (2012 & 2015 )
Power Woman podcast & WXLM 980 AM.
"Zest Fests" - Creative women's gatherings
Author presentations - AARP: Decide.Create.Share; Wallingford Library; Wallingford Senior Center; East Haven Library; Wesleyan University Book Store. Non-Profit Associations.
As an independent H.R. consultant, I contributed to over 60 companies in the last 25 years.
~ I specialize in tailored development programs, including:
- Organizational Effectiveness Projects and Presentations
- Training Supervisors and Owners
- Performance Management and Mentoring programs
- Recruiting services for selected clients
- Establishing career paths
- Clarifying required job skills and competencies
- Job rotations and cross-training
- Retention studies
- Facilitating meetings, and .
~ My other niche areas include Compensation and Workplace Policies:
- Interviewing employees to write job descriptions
- Using salary surveys to price benchmark jobs
- Setting salary ranges to ensure pay equity
- Updating personnel handbooks
Clients include companies of all sizes, in a wide range of industries, across the country. Recent projects include job descriptions, survey analysis and pay systems for several municipalities in CT, RI, KY, VA, & OK
I enjoy joining up with management groups to tackle human resource and development issues to help their organization grow. Developing performance management systems in municipalities is a speciality area.
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