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Management Team


James F. Kisela
Chairman and CEO

Jim Kisela has been the human resources management field for over thirty years, serving as the senior human resources officer for large organizations in a variety of industries including Terra International, the Campbell Soup Company, the Vanguard Group, and QVC, Inc.

His extensive domestic and international experience includes HR strategic planning, executive compensation programs, diversity programs, HR technology initiatives, the creation of management succession, development and training systems, as well as work/life programs such as on-site childcare centers

Workforce diversity has been an important focus as he developed programs to facilitate increased diversity in organizations. For over 15 years he has been on the board of INROADS Philadelphia, creating opportunities of minority college students to work as interns.

As an entrepreneur he has started a career transitions consulting firm, then a company that produced an award-winning work/life balance CD-ROM product, and now consults with large organizations on how to reduce their employee benefits costs.

He is quoted in Reengineering Performance Management: Breakthroughs in Achieving Strategy through People by Tracey B. Weiss and Franklin Hartle (1997. Boca Raton, FL: St. Lucie Press) concerning the use of competency models in performance management and is the author of a chapter on work/life benefits in The Compensation Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2000).

Jim earned an MBA at the University of Chicago, majoring in Finance and Human Resource Management.

HR Consultants
Jim McCann

Bill Riester

Employee Benefits Consultants
Don Barbuto

Jerry Adair

Marketing Consultants
Francine Port

Harry Jamison, Academic & Education Industry

Laird Warner, Academic & Education Industry

Susannah Spanton

Scientific Consultant
Julie A. Meek, DNS, RN, CNS