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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.

 

James F. McCann
Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Jim McCann has over 25 years experience in Human Resources, concentrating in the areas of work-life, EAP, wellness and management training. He was a founding director of CareLinc, the nation’s first data based work-life referral company, eventually providing resource and referral services to over a million employees and their families, including Fortune 500 companies such as EDS, Nabisco, Vanguard and Dell.

After selling the company, he was a co-developer of the Work-Life Toolkit®, an award winning software program which provided human resource professionals with a suite of tools to assess a wide variety of work-life initiatives and measure their effectiveness and return-on-investment.

From 2002 to 2007, Jim worked at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Psychiatry, first developing their behavioral health provider network , then implementing the sales and marketing of the University’s EAP and innovative management training services.

From 2008 to 2010, he was Director of Sales and Marketing for Horizon Health EAP Services, working with consultants, brokers and prospects to offer cost-effective EAP and wellness services in the Northeast market.

Jim earned his Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Management Marketing from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and a Masters in Social Work from Pennsylvania State Universi



HR Consultants

Bill Riester

Employee Benefits Consultants
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