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Our Agenda

This meeting will focus on creating connections within our Network through storytelling and discussion across generations of our workforce. You'll be asked to share your experiences and perspectives, and will hear from others who may be at different points in their careers. We hope our partners will walk away with and understand of how fostering ideas, perspectives and connections in an intergenerational workforce can lead to improved outcomes and impact personally, professionally and in our communities.

11:30am - Lunch & Networking Time
12pm -       Welcome & Opening Remarks
                      Panel: Sharing the Stories that Drive Our Work
                      Activity: 4, Table, All
1:15pm -   Time for Networking & Connection

More About our Panel

Sharing Stories that Drive Our Work will ask our panelists, all who represent different stages in their careers, to talk about their own experiences that brought them to, and keep them in, their work to improve our communities.

Following the panel, we'll continue similar conversations with our Network in attendance.

Meet Our Panelists:

• • Pete Hanson, Director of Talent Development, TURBOCAM & PHAC Member
    Pete currently oversees an 8 person Personnel (not HR 😊) team and 5 person Employee Growth & Development Team at TURBOCAM International a 550+ employee engineering solutions and manufacturer headquartered in Barrington, NH. Pete has a broad range of Personnel experience in the private sector as well as mid-sized and large state government agencies. He has a track record of successful creation and implementation of a complete range of Personnel activities to include compensation and benefits, performance management, learning management and career development, employee relations, and organizational development. He is a trained EEO investigator, and he has supported business strategy through people and productivity enhancements.  He has led, managed and developed teams in multi-site, multi-state environments. Pete is happy to report that TURBOCAM is a Recovery Friendly Workplace and was an early adopter of the Governor’s program. Pete is a proponent of author Steven Covey’s “Seek first to understand, then to be understood”.
  • Emilia Poehlman, NH Disability and Health Program Manager, University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability (IOD) & PHAC Member
    Emilia earned her Master of Social Work from Columbia University School of Social Work in 2021 where she developed skills to practice social work at the community level. She studied program planning, advocacy, and healthcare policy. After graduating she joined the UNH IOD as the NH Disability and Health Program Manager. In this role she works with community partners to implement several projects that address the health and wellbeing of adults with disabilities in NH. In 2023, her role at the IOD expanded to include leading a project that focuses on improving inclusion at the Granite YMCA. She serves as Trustee for the Crotched Mountain Foundation. Outside of work, you can find Emilia trying a new recipe in the kitchen or planning her small (but mighty) vegetable garden.
  • Alexis Taatjes, BSW Youth and Family Social Worker, Community Outreach Bureau, Dover Police Department
    Alexis interned for the Dover Police Department’s Social Work Unit from September 2023 to May 2024, and graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work in May 2024. Following her internship and graduation, Alexis was hired on full time in June 2024 as the Department’s first Youth and Family Social Worker. In this role, Alexis provides intensive case management to youth and families through three channels: Adverse Childhood Experience Response Team (ACERT) case management, SRO & DCYF/Juvenile Detective case management, and General case management. Prior to beginning her career in social work,  Alexis worked as a Licensed Nursing Assistant for five years, first at Riverside Rest Home then at Wentworth Douglass-Hospital.