Our conversation will focus on serving yourself as employee: creating a business approach that incorporates HR best practices, recognizing the unique challenges women may face, and how to foster that “workplace culture” where you as leader can thrive. Cultivating those best practices include:

• Career Expansion: Creating a job description for your most valuable asset, yourself as leader, and thinking forward for career pathways and business expansion which may include recruiting and retaining other employees.

• Compensation and Benefits: Utilizing resources in our community and in Vermont to ensure that how you are compensated through competitive pay and health/wellbeing programs.

• Workplace Flexibility: Designing sustainable work arrangements, absence and leave practices, and other “fringe” benefits that support your own work-life balance and meet your actual needs as both business owner and employee – and for your employees, if relevant.

• Career Development and Training: Tapping into opportunities for women’s leadership training, mentorship, and continuous professional development to help you and your employees advance in their careers.

Presenter:

Holly Zanes is the Senior Compensation Analyst for Harvard University’s TH Chan School of Public Health. Holly advises HR business partners, faculty and staff leadership, and employees at all levels of the organization on strategies that ensure competitive and equitable pay. Prior to joining Harvard, Holly served for 30 years at the University of Vermont in HR management: recruitment and retention, onboarding, compensation and classification, employee and labor relations, benefits administration, and retirement plan administration. Workplace policies that impact working families and women’s career paths are top concerns for Holly; she’s a member of the Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard and was previously appointed to the University of Vermont President’s Commission on the Status of Women.

Holly has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire in Communication, a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Vermont, and certification in Labor and Employee Relations from Cornell University. She’s a member of the Society of Human Resources Management and CUPA-HR. Holly lives in Vermont’s Mad River Valley and on the Outer Cape.

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