Anne Donovan is a Human Resources leader known for developing new programs and training, dramatically improving employee retention and leadership performance. Conducting extensive employee feedback research, she designs initiatives to address underlying issues across many industries. Executives value her talent for identifying core workforce needs and taking action to develop and drive projects. Anne’s successes include introducing retention programs, spearheading leadership development programs, and creating succession plans looking toward the future. Leading culture shifts and change management during highly stressful times are some of her specialties.

She’s worked in some of the most well-known luxury brands in hospitality and has created high-performing teams by leading with a people-first philosophy.  She creates and facilitates Leadership Development workshops with high energy and an eye on drawing people in for maximized learning. The workshops she’s presented include “Coaching for Success”, “Civility”, and “Reducing Turnover and Increasing Retention”.  

Anne lives in Montana with her husband, Chip, and their two Wirehaired Pointing Griffons. When she is not working towards creating a better employee experience and a better workforce, she’s digging in her garden and renovating her backyard.  You can also find her skiing down the slopes in Big Sky with Chip. 

https://donovanhrsolutions.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-donovan-sphr-shrm-scp/

Anne Donovan is a Human Resources leader known for developing new programs and training, dramatically improving employee retention and leadership performance. Conducting extensive employee feedback research, she designs initiatives to address underlying issues across many industries. Executives value her talent for identifying core workforce needs and taking action to develop and drive projects. Anne’s successes include introducing retention programs, spearheading leadership development programs, and creating succession plans looking toward the future. Leading culture shifts and change management during highly stressful times are some of her specialties.
She’s worked in some of the most well-known luxury brands in hospitality and has created high-performing teams by leading with a people-first philosophy.  She creates and facilitates Leadership Development workshops with high energy and an eye on drawing people in for maximized learning. The workshops she’s presented include “Coaching for Success”, “Civility”, and “Reducing Turnover and Increasing Retention”.  
Anne lives in Montana with her husband, Chip, and their two Wirehaired Pointing Griffons. When she is not working towards creating a better employee experience and a better workforce, she’s digging in her garden and renovating her backyard.  You can also find her skiing down the slopes in Big Sky with Chip. 
<a href="https://donovanhrsolutions.com/">https://donovanhrsolutions.com/</a>
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I Am Refocused Radio provides a space that welcomes people to speak freely about real life experiences through various platforms to engage and encourage those who are looking to find their purpose.

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Anne Donovan, SPHR, SHRM-SCP - Retaining Valuable Employees

Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military, only a tiny fraction are selected as “operators.” Shannon Kent was one of the first women to serve at this level and was widely recognized as one of the best.

Shannon served as a Navy cryptologic technician, responsible for signals intelligence and electronic warfare, but her proficiency with language set her apart. She was assigned to a unit so secretive that its name can’t even be printed here, where she worked clandestinely to hunt the most wanted terrorists in the world.

Send Me is Shannon’s heroic life story, revealing the truth of both her work and the challenges she faced while trying to raise a family with her husband Joe, himself a Special Forces soldier. He and Shannon met in a war zone, their love forged during a special operations training course, their dedication spanning multiple combat deployments and the birth of their two boys.

It is the legacy of an extraordinary woman who rose to the apex of the military, working with the most elite forces in the world, lifting the veil from the life of a Special Forces family to share their duty, sacrifice, and humanity.

Get the Book: https://a.co/d/ajGl28k

ABOUT JOE KENT

Joe Kent is Shannon Kent's husband and father of their two children. Over the course of his twenty-year military career, he served as an Army Ranger, Green Beret, and other classified special operations units.

ABOUT MARTY SKOVLUND JR.

Marty Skovlund Jr. is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a veteran of the US Army and an experienced conflict reporter with assignments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine in addition to embedding with the US military worldwide.

Over the course of eight years in uniform, he served as an Army Ranger in 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, including three deployments to Iraq and two to Afghanistan, and later as an Army Recruiter in the Syracuse Recruiting Battalion. He has co-hosted a TV show on the History Channel, won awards for independent filmmaking, and led multiple award-winning publications in both digital and print formats.

Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military, only a tiny fraction are selected as “operators.” Shannon Kent was one of the first women to serve at this level and was widely recognized as one of the best.
Shannon served as a Navy cryptologic technician, responsible for signals intelligence and electronic warfare, but her proficiency with language set her apart. She was assigned to a unit so secretive that its name can’t even be printed here, where she worked clandestinely to hunt the most wanted terrorists in the world.
Send Me is Shannon’s heroic life story, revealing the truth of both her work and the challenges she faced while trying to raise a family with her husband Joe, himself a Special Forces soldier. He and Shannon met in a war zone, their love forged during a special operations training course, their dedication spanning multiple combat deployments and the birth of their two boys.
It is the legacy of an extraordinary woman who rose to the apex of the military, working with the most elite forces in the world, lifting the veil from the life of a Special Forces family to share their duty, sacrifice, and humanity.
Get the Book: <a href="https://a.co/d/ajGl28k">https://a.co/d/ajGl28k</a>
ABOUT JOE KENT
Joe Kent is Shannon Kent's husband and father of their two children. Over the course of his twenty-year military career, he served as an Army Ranger, Green Beret, and other classified special operations units.
ABOUT MARTY SKOVLUND JR.
Marty Skovlund Jr. is the editor-in-chief of Task &amp; Purpose. He is a veteran of the US Army and an experienced conflict reporter with assignments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine in addition to embedding with the US military worldwide.
Over the course of eight years in uniform, he served as an Army Ranger in 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, including three deployments to Iraq and two to Afghanistan, and later as an Army Recruiter in the Syracuse Recruiting Battalion. He has co-hosted a TV show on the History Channel, won awards for independent filmmaking, and led multiple award-winning publications in both digital and print formats.

Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War

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Soulmate Dog tells the brave, moving story of Michelle Slater’s extraordinary relationship with her German Shepherd, Brady. Narrated by Alison Larkin in an easy-to-listen-to, conversational style, it “charts the nature of love and the inevitability of loss that accompanies it,” while showcasing the telepathic language that can exist between dogs and humans.

In this brave, beautiful book, the author also sheds light on the important field of integrative veterinary medicine.

Cover Design by: Lisa Cavender

Audiobook available for $25. A portion of the profits from the sale of this audiobook will go to The Brady Scholarship, supporting training and wider availability for holistic veterinary care.

Michelle Slater is a scholar of comparative literature and president of the educational nonprofit Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities in Connecticut. She holds a Ph.D. in French literature from Johns Hopkins University.

Her long battle with and recovery from late-stage neurological Lyme disease served as the genesis for this book. Debilitated by the disease to the extent that she was no longer able to teach at her university or perform simple tasks like driving and reading, Slater spent several years pursuing every known treatment, from aggressive allopathic methods to holistic remedies. When all failed to deliver recovery, she discovered Dr. Sergey Filonov’s dry fasting program and spent two months in Siberia under his care. She recovered completely from Lyme disease, regaining her memory and returning to researching, writing, hiking, and running.

Since 2017, she has not experienced a single symptom.

https://michelleslater.com/#about-soulmate-dog-book

Pre-order Now, official release June 10th
Soulmate Dog tells the brave, moving story of Michelle Slater’s extraordinary relationship with her German Shepherd, Brady. Narrated by Alison Larkin in an easy-to-listen-to, conversational style, it “charts the nature of love and the inevitability of loss that accompanies it,” while showcasing the telepathic language that can exist between dogs and humans.
In this brave, beautiful book, the author also sheds light on the important field of integrative veterinary medicine.
Cover Design by: Lisa Cavender
Audiobook available for $25. A portion of the profits from the sale of this audiobook will go to The Brady Scholarship, supporting training and wider availability for holistic veterinary care.
Michelle Slater is a scholar of comparative literature and president of the educational nonprofit Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities in Connecticut. She holds a Ph.D. in French literature from Johns Hopkins University.
Her long battle with and recovery from late-stage neurological Lyme disease served as the genesis for this book. Debilitated by the disease to the extent that she was no longer able to teach at her university or perform simple tasks like driving and reading, Slater spent several years pursuing every known treatment, from aggressive allopathic methods to holistic remedies. When all failed to deliver recovery, she discovered Dr. Sergey Filonov’s dry fasting program and spent two months in Siberia under his care. She recovered completely from Lyme disease, regaining her memory and returning to researching, writing, hiking, and running.
Since 2017, she has not experienced a single symptom.
<a href="https://michelleslater.com/#about-soulmate-dog-book">https://michelleslater.com/#about-soulmate-dog-book</a>

Michelle B. Slater, Ph.D. - Soulmate Dog

Join us for a powerful conversation with award-winning journalist and author Warren Kozak, as he shares his deeply personal story of loss, grief, and healing. Warren's new book, 'Waving Goodbye: Life After Loss', offers a compassionate roadmap for men navigating the complexities of loss, and finding light in the darkness. In this episode, Warren shares his journey, from the initial shock of separation to the slow emergence of hope, and offers practical guidance and solace for those who may be struggling with loss. Don't miss this important conversation about the often-hidden pain of grief, and the power of resilience and healing.

Bio

Warren Kozak was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1951, the third of four children. He was educated in the public schools there and attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he graduated in 1973 with a degree in Political Science.

“I think my mid-western upbringing in the 1950s and ‘60s, gave me a solid and positive guide for the rest of my life.”

When he was eight years old, he discovered television network news (probably while looking for cartoons) and was mesmerized by it. His first job after college was as a political researcher at ABC News in New York. He would eventually become the writer for the major anchors at the network and worked as an on-air reporter at National Public Radio in Washington.

Warren is the author of four highly acclaimed works of non-fiction and is a regular essayist on a wide variety of issues for national publications including The Wall Street Journal, The National Review and The New York Sun.

He has lectured at the Air Force Academy, West Point, the National Air and Space Conference in Washington and the 92nd St. Y in New York.

Warren lived and worked in Beijing China in the mid- 1980s and traveled extensively throughout Asia. In 1993, he won a Benton Fellowship at the University of Chicago.

He now makes his home in New York.

https://www.warrenkozak.com/books/waving-goodbye/

Join us for a powerful conversation with award-winning journalist and author Warren Kozak, as he shares his deeply personal story of loss, grief, and healing. Warren's new book, 'Waving Goodbye: Life After Loss', offers a compassionate roadmap for men navigating the complexities of loss, and finding light in the darkness. In this episode, Warren shares his journey, from the initial shock of separation to the slow emergence of hope, and offers practical guidance and solace for those who may be struggling with loss. Don't miss this important conversation about the often-hidden pain of grief, and the power of resilience and healing.
Bio
Warren Kozak was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1951, the third of four children. He was educated in the public schools there and attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he graduated in 1973 with a degree in Political Science.
“I think my mid-western upbringing in the 1950s and ‘60s, gave me a solid and positive guide for the rest of my life.”
When he was eight years old, he discovered television network news (probably while looking for cartoons) and was mesmerized by it. His first job after college was as a political researcher at ABC News in New York. He would eventually become the writer for the major anchors at the network and worked as an on-air reporter at National Public Radio in Washington.
Warren is the author of four highly acclaimed works of non-fiction and is a regular essayist on a wide variety of issues for national publications including The Wall Street Journal, The National Review and The New York Sun.
He has lectured at the Air Force Academy, West Point, the National Air and Space Conference in Washington and the 92nd St. Y in New York.
Warren lived and worked in Beijing China in the mid- 1980s and traveled extensively throughout Asia. In 1993, he won a Benton Fellowship at the University of Chicago.
He now makes his home in New York.
<a href="https://www.warrenkozak.com/books/waving-goodbye/">https://www.warrenkozak.com/books/waving-goodbye/</a>

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