Register now for the "Power Up your Core in 2024" annual NHAHPERD Conference being held November 21-22 at Waterville Valley. We have over 60 workshops schedule over the two days! Registrations includes: Digital Handouts, Morning Refreshments, Lunch Buffets, Exhibits, Door Prizes, Cornhole Tournament, Silent Auction, Awards Banquet and More!
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Join us for our first Coffee Talk of the new program year!
Session Title: Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leading Change: Key Leadership Lessons for Recreation and Parks Professionals
In this session, we will explore the three essential pillars of leadership—leading yourself, leading others, and leading change—and how they apply to the work of recreation and parks professionals. Discover how knowing your authentic self is the foundation for influencing others and driving change within your organization. Drawing from her diverse career—from commercial recreation to launching her own consulting business, and leading a university-wide service excellence initiative—Eileen Soisson will share valuable leadership insights learned along the way. Through her experiences, Eileen will offer practical lessons that can inspire and strengthen your own leadership journey in the recreation and parks field.
Learn More About our Speaker: Eileen Soisson
Independent Consultant & Director of Wall Fellows, Coastal Carolina University
Between 2011 and 2020, Eileen established and led Coastal Carolina University’s service excellence initiative, Feel the Teal®, created to enhance the university’s culture and become more service-oriented and focused on student success. She designed the service excellence program into eight training modules and oversaw all operations within the initiative. Eileen taught university employees and others how to deliver better service within higher education. In 2019 alone, she led 262 customer service trainings for Coastal Carolina University employees, student workers, affiliate groups, and other university stakeholders. She also oversaw the Feel the Teal® Steering Committee and Feel the Teal® Leadership Team at Coastal Carolina University.
Eileen is back at Coastal Carolina University as of Fall 2023 as a faculty member and Director of the Wall Fellows Program in the Wall College of Business. The Wall Fellows Program is a uniquely designed, two-year leadership program that prepares top students across all majors for high-level careers in major U.S. and international organizations.
Eileen began her career in the hospitality industry and worked with the American Hospitality Academy for more than ten years before starting her own business, The Meeting Institute, in 2004, which provided various training and development programs in the areas of leadership and customer service within the private sector. Her clients included the U.S. Army, Audi of America, the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Grand Strand Program, National Recreation Parks Association, and others.
Join us for the NHRPA Holiday social and newly added Commercial Member networking. We will meet at Remix Skate & Event Center located at 725 Huse Rd, Manchester, NH 03103 at 11am. Commercial members are invited to join us this year and are being offered a few moments to speak in front of the group to share information about the products and services they have available.
Registration fee includes roller skate rentals and lunch. We will be ordering flat bread pizza and salad for the group. If you would like to participate in the Yankee Swap, please bring a gift with a value of $10.
We hope to see many professional and commercial members at this year's HOLIDAY SOCIAL!
NNERPC Heads back to Attitash Grand Summit Hotel
Join us in Bartlett, NH in 2025 at the Grand Summit Hotel at Attitash
Save the Dates - January 14-16, 2025
For over 70 years, the Northern New England Recreation & Parks Conference has been one of the highest quality parks & recreation conferences in all of New England. The conference is organized by a committee made up of parks & recreation professionals and exhibitor representatives from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont & Massachusetts.
Our number one goal is to produce a top quality educational experience. Each year the conference host rotates between Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. The conference's location of Northern New Hampshire remains the same each year.
For more information visit the NNERPC website.
Meeting agenda and location at Grand Summit Hotel coming soon.
This is the deadline to submit content for the spring newsletter.
Join speaker Matt Frye, Clinical Assistant Professor from UNH RMP as he shares his thoughts on Inclusion in Parks & Recreation. More information coming soon. Zoom link will be emailed prior to the meeting.
"NHRPA " is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization. 172 Pembroke Road, Concord, NH 03301
