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    • 06 Nov 2025
    • 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    • Webinar
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    Thursday, November 6, 2025


    Remote Meeting

    8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Networking Opportunity

    8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome from Jennifer Vining

                 8:30 AM - 8:55 Legal Update and Q&A with our Legislative Director Debra Dyleski-Najjar, Esquire

                 9:00 - 10:30 Program

          1.5 SHRM & HRCI credits Pending

    TOPIC: "Creating Better Cultures Through The Eight Play Personalities"

    In the quest to cultivate a vibrant corporate culture, many workplaces adopt trendy perks—think ping pong tables, kombucha on tap, and kindergarten-styles office spaces. Ones that mimic the offices of Silicon Valley. Yet these fancy perks can create issues. These perks don't cater to all employees and can promote cultures of forced fun.

    There is a better way to create a more vibrant culture. Join Paul Lopushinsky, founder of Playficient, for a unique session on the Eight Play Personalities. You will learn what the Eight Play Personalities are, and how they apply to your own life.

    We'll discuss the Eight Play Personalities, and how to tap into them in your workplace. By understanding the different play personalities of your team, you'll be able to create a culture that is engaging and fun for everyone.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Learn what the Eight Play Personalities are and how they apply to your own life.
    • Learn why most organizations only cater to 1-3 of the Eight Play Personalities.
    • Learn how to integrate the Eight Play Personalities into the workplace.
    • Discover how to identify and celebrate the Play Personalities within your team.

      Our Speaker: Paul Lopushinsky

      Paul Lopushinsky (Law-puh-shin-ski) is the founder of Playficient, a consultancy helping organizations create better employee experiences.

      Areas of focus for Playficient include the following:

      • Employee Journey Mapping for identifying the strengths and shortcomings of the employee experience

      • Utilizing the Eight Play Personalities to create better work cultures that don't rely on fancy office perks or forced fun

      Paul has worked with organizations and associations such as Ronald McDonald House, The British Columbia Lottery Corporation, UXPressia, the Society for Human Resource Management, the Association for Talent Development and Culture Amp.

      Paul’s work has been featured in the BBC, Harvard Business Review, Association for Talent Development, and People Managing People.



      Our Sponsor: Interesting in Sponsoring? Contact Julie Moore at jmoore@employmentpg.com


      Location: Webinar


      For more information:

      Contact: Caitlin Clary

      Email:  cclary@borislow.com

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      • 04 Dec 2025
      • 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
      • Webinar
      Register

      Thursday, December 4, 2025


      Remote Meeting

      8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Networking Opportunity

      8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome from Jennifer Vining

                   8:30 AM - 8:55 Legal Update and Q&A with our Legislative Director Debra Dyleski-Najjar, Esquire

                   9:00 - 10:30 Program

            1.5 SHRM & HRCI credits Pending

      TOPIC: "Why Self-Differentiated Leadership Matters in the HR World"

      One of the toughest positions that exist in the work world is that of an HR Professional. All too often you are caught between taking care of the employee and taking care of the company AND, taking care of yourself. Todays’ virtual learning session will provide a shared working definition of a “Self-Differentiated Leader” and how to become more of one. Understanding and intentionally using this concept can provide more confidence, resolve, stamina, connection and less fear to the incredibly complex challenges that knock on HR’s door each and every day.

      As a pre-orientation invitation, please go to the brief blog about “Self-Differentation” prior to the session.


        Our Speaker: Stephen Gianotti

        Stephen Gianotti, TEDx speaker, author and entrepreneur, has been a practitioner of individual, group, and organizational effectiveness for over 30 years with a specific focus on thinking and acting from a “whole system” perspective. Stephen brings a comprehensive understanding of systems thinking, organizational learning, diagnostics, learning and training needs analysis, personality & emotional intelligence assessments, an in-depth knowledge of organizational development and the coaching process. Stephen has worked with over 500 companies around the world and coached over 2,000 professionals in the US and abroad at the emerging, middle, upper middle and Executive levels of profit and not-for-profit organizations.

        Much of Stephen’s work includes working with leadership teams who benefit from his realignment process particularly when the leadership team has lost or added members or experience a change in organizational structure or focus. This process usually includes individual & team coaching, assessments, surveys, & interviews to help guide the transition needed to realign the thinking required to support collective & collaborative actions.

        As a longtime member of The Society for Organizational Learning, he has served as Chairperson of the Global Association for the Society of Organizational Learning since 2018. Stephen is currently a facilitator for the UNH Family Business Center where he facilitates monthly peer group learning sessions with 9 of New Hampshire’s Chief Executive Officers. He is recently returned from Vietnam where he was a speaker & presenter at a Global Forum on Personal Mastery and from Slovenia where he conducted workshops on using systems thinking in creating public policies for the green initiative.

        For three years, Stephen was the official Zoom Safari Guide for Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation, the first and only Elephant Sanctuary (www.elephanthavens.com) located in Botswana, home to the world’s largest African Elephant population, whose mission is to “Protect & Preserve the African Elephant”.



        Our Sponsor: Interesting in Sponsoring? Contact Julie Moore at jmoore@employmentpg.com


        Location: Webinar


        For more information:

        Contact: Caitlin Clary

        Email:  cclary@borislow.com

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        • 05 Feb 2026
        • 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
        • Webinar
        Register

        Thursday, February 5, 2026


        Remote Meeting

        8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Networking Opportunity

        8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome from Jennifer Vining

                     8:30 AM - 8:55 Legal Update and Q&A with our Legislative Director Debra Dyleski-Najjar, Esquire

                     9:00 - 10:30 Program

              1.5 SHRM & HRCI credits Pending

        TOPIC: "Human by Design - Leverage the Human Advantage in the AI Era"

        AI is not on the horizon—it’s here, it's been here, reshaping how we work, lead, and grow. HR professionals are uniquely positioned to guide this transformation, not just by implementing new systems, but by championing the human capabilities that technology can’t replicate.

        This interactive, high-energy session explores HR opportunities to enhance the way we lead with clarity, trust, and purpose—supporting both organizational strategy and individual growth in a tech-driven world.

        Conversation and Key Points to Cover:

        • The new question: What are the opportunities for HR professionals in the age of AI
        • Strategies to Build trust, engagement, and psychological safety
        • Mindshifts and Elevating the human capabilities that secure a competitive edge
        • Practical methods and language to positively engage and support your workforce (and leadership teams) through acclerating tecn advances
        • Approaches for intentionally shaping your own transformation and supporting others through theirs

        What this really comes down to is this: for the future of work, being human isn’t a limitation — it’s your design advantage.

          Our Speaker: Deb Kaplan

          Deb Kaplan is an organizational performance guide and a full-suite Dale Carnegie Trainer with over 35 years of experience helping people, teams, and organizations thrive through change. While her work reaches global audiences, her primary focus is on organizations based in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. She is a credentialed leader of Human by Design: Future Proofing Yourself in an AI-Driven World, a Dale Carnegie program designed in partnership with Matt Britton, author of Generation AI. Deb is known for her insight, empathy, and practical wisdom, energy, and grit—with a passion for seeing her clients soar. She has served on HR teams for three global businesses headquartered in New England. In 2022, she returned to where she got her start—working with leaders and organizations to realize strategic and people-centric transformations. Her mission is to elevate human capabilities in ways that align with the positive changes people and organizations want and need to make in the world.



          Our Sponsor: Interesting in Sponsoring? Contact Julie Moore at jmoore@employmentpg.com


          Location: Webinar


          For more information:

          Contact: Caitlin Clary

          Email:  cclary@borislow.com

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