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Create Great Business: Human Resources Workshop
🏢 Keeping top talent is one of the most challenging and rewarding parts of running a successful company. Our Human Resources Workshop will zoom in on key areas of employee management including:
- Successful Onboarding of New Employees
- Managing the Employee Experience
- Becoming an Employer of Choice
- Best Practices of Recruitment
The Business Growth Workshops focus on developing business knowledge and sharing best practices through providing hands-on time with subject matter experts. In 2023, we are excited to offer a variety of workshops focusing on 6 key topics including human resources, finance and budgeting, marketing and more.
Tuesday, February 21
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Grand Rapids Chamber
Members $50 Non-Members $75
Meet the Speakers
Lisa Cooper | Chief People Officer, Cooper People Group 
Lisa Cooper is the Founder & Chief People Officer with Cooper People Group whose mission is to enrich the world of work by developing innovative HR strategies for organizations that have no HR, HR in transition, or HR that is stretched too thin. Lisa is a Laker for Life (Go GVSU!), is both SHRM-CP and Predictive Index certified. With more than 20 years of HR leadership and consulting experience in West Michigan, she has a particular passion for working with small, entrepreneurial businesses, both for-profit and not-for-profit. Lisa loves hiking the national parks with her 3 teen daughters (16 down; 47 to go) and scuba diving in tropical places with hubby of nearly 20 years, Dan. In her spare time, she volunteers as the Chair of the Governance Committee at both the Downtown Market and North Kent Connect and was the 2020 President of the Association for HR Management (a local SHRM chapter).
Thom Giguere | Sales Director, Paylocity
Thom Giguere is Paylocity’s Director for West Michigan and NW Ohio…whose Mission is to offer an intuitive, easy to use HR and Payroll product suite that helps businesses tackle today’s challenges while moving them towards the promise of tomorrow. Known for its unique culture and consistently recognized as one of the best places to work, Paylocity accompanies its clients on the journey to create great workplaces and help people achieve their best through automation, data-driven insights, and engagement. Thom is an avid outdoors lover, but his real passion is Riding and Racing his Mountain Bike all over Michigan with Jamie his amazing bride of 25yrs and two daughters and sons-in-law. If Thom is not on a Trail, you are likely to find him on the Sand Dunes of Silver Lake 😊…”Yes I LOVE PURE MICHIGAN”. Thom is very proud of his Military Service and enjoys helping Veterans wherever they are in their journey. For the past 25yrs Thom has been helping Organizations Maximize their investments in Employee Benefits and HR Technology by focusing on the Employee Experience and Effective Communication. He is a Lifetime Member of the VFW, American Legion and Past Board Member and Chair for Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Elaina Ryskamp | HCM Account Executive – West Michigan, Paylocity
Elaina Ryskamp has spent the past year at Paylocity Networking and informing the Greater Grand Rapids Area on who we are at Paylocity and how we can benefit their business as a whole. Caring is in our makeup. It’s who we are. We’re more than a cutting-edge HR and payroll tech company with crazy good reviews (just sayin’). We’re people. Because people matter most. And people have always been at the heart of our business. She has been an active member of the Chambers in the year of 2022 and looking forward to 2023 here as well. She is a wife to Luke Ryskamp of 5 years (her Highschool sweetheart) and Mother to her 10 month old son Vincent. She loves spending her weekends at home with family, fur babies and friends creating memories and planning more to come.
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Interested in sponsoring our Business Growth Workshops in 2023? Please contact Omar Cuevas to learn more.