Year in Review

NHBSR Program Highlights

As we embrace the full momentum of 2024, we express our gratitude to our members, contributors, and sponsors for enabling us to provide engaging and influential programming to our network!


With the dawn of each new year comes a chance for contemplation, and we'd like to take a moment to revisit some noteworthy webinars. If you didn't catch them initially, here's your opportunity to review and gain valuable insights!

Pathways to Prosperity

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Taking Care Of Business By Caring For Employees


The webinar features solutions to address basic employee inequities, such as financial instability, nutrition insecurity, and limited or unreliable access to transportation, healthcare, childcare, and housing. Employee well-being has a profound impact on work performance and job satisfaction.

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The Good Jobs Strategy


An introductory session by The Good Jobs Institute on how to improve business performance and employee experience simultaneously by combining investment in people with operational choices that raise frontline employees' productivity, contribution, and motivation.

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A Collaborative Model For Affordable Housing


A partnership that successfully created a fund capitalized with investments from eight major Upper Valley employers. Dubbed the Upper Valley Loan Fund (the Loan Fund), this fund will loan money to developers and other entities to build affordable apartments targeted to renters with moderate incomes.

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Tapping The Hidden Workforce


There’s a massive pool of untapped talent that small businesses can benefit from using second-chance hiring. Here’s how to do it.



Coming Up in 2024

Jan 25

Caregiver Friendly Workplaces. In collaboration with UNH Center on Aging and Community Living. This webinar will focus on providing tools and resources for establishing Caregiver Friendly Workplaces as well as outline the need and return on investment for businesses. 

Feb 14

Building Tomorrow's Workforce: Collaborative Strategies for Education and Career Pathway Design. Learn about different partnerships between educational institutions and businesses to create innovative and new career pathways. 

Mar 21

Fostering Workplace Culture In A Remote Or Hybrid Environment Webinar Learn the top trends of maintaining organizational culture in a remote environment. How are you staying connected? An Interactive session covering the 5 areas of deepening connection. 

Interested in sponsoring this program? We have sponsor opportunities available.

Bear in Mind: Mental Wellness in the Workplace

Upcoming Webinars

Igniting Joy in the Workplace Webinar

January 11, 2024


Are you ready to transform your workplace into a hub of joy and engagement? Join us for a dynamic workshop where you’ll discover the secrets to cultivating a culture of happiness and boosting team morale. In today’s fast-paced and demanding business world, creating an environment where employees thrive is not just a dream – it’s a strategy for success.

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More in this series:


The Truth about Workplace Mental Wellbeing

An expert panel will discuss the truth about workplace mental wellbeing, provide local resources and present a business example of a company that has addressed mental health issues at work.


Psychological Safety At Work Part 1

The Richards Group’s Ross Gibson and Shannon Prescott present the first of a two-part series. In these sessions, they will dive deeper and look at the most critical factor in employee engagement, better performing teams and increased retention rates.


Psychological Safety At Work Part 2

In Part Two, we detail the six key take-away skills that can be refined and honed to improve the level of Psychological Safety in each workplace.


Nurtured By Nature: How Nature Benefits Mental Health

Dr. Lauren Ferguson, researcher and Professor in the Department of Recreation Management and Policy at UNH.


Navigating Multigenerational Workplaces

Explore the challenges and opportunities that arise when different generations collaborate. By focusing on active listening and mutual learning, participants will discover how to leverage the collective wisdom of their multi-generational teams.

Coming up:


Navigating the Mental Health System

Explore the challenges and opportunities that arise when different generations collaborate. By focusing on active listening and mutual learning, participants will discover how to leverage the collective wisdom of their multi-generational teams. Register

Climate Action Webinars

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Addressing Transportation

Learn about EV charging options at your facility, how GreenWave EV works with companies to reduce their Scope 3 emissions, and the new EMPOWER program launched by NHDES for electrification and EV Charging.

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Transitioning to Clean Energy Sources

Learn about the various opportunities and incentives to improve the performance of your existing buildings. Ask the experts your questions and uncover various new building and existing building strategies. 

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Resilient and Energy Efficient Buildings: Learn about the various opportunities and incentives to improve the performance of your existing buildings. Ask the experts your questions and uncover various new building and existing building strategies. 

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A Case Study: Hypertherm Strategy and Integration

Learn how Hypertherm set their Climate Goals, Collaborates with their customers on reductions, and integrates their strategy within through Green Teams.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The DEI Workplace Innovation Challenge is back!

Updated for 2024

Whether you've taken the Challenge before or are new to it, we invite you to join us. We encourage you to engage a team from your company to take the challenge together and support each other in creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace.


This year's challenge includes:

  • 8 Weeks of emails (January 23 - March 15)
  • Weekly email prompts and resources
  • 4 Facilitated online dialogues 


Learn more about the DEI Workplace Innovation Challenge.

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 Thank you to our sponsors:

Amplify Voices

Spring Conference Speaking Opportunities


NHBSR is now accepting proposals for the Spring Conference in May and welcomes proposals for relevant programs that we offer throughout the year.


NHBSR's 2024 Spring Conference, "Prosperity Unleashed: Aligning Business and Community," highlights the synergistic benefits of businesses taking a proactive leadership role in addressing critical societal issues that affect the workforce and communities around them.


By leveraging their resources, influence, and innovative approaches, businesses can play a pivotal role in creating positive and sustainable change in areas such as affordable housing, childcare availability, quality education, affordable healthcare, creating inclusive welcoming workplaces and communities, and financial sustainability for employees. Thus creating an environment where business and community thrive together!

Submit your proposal today!

Submissions are accepted until January 31, 2024.

Peer Impact Networks bring professionals together to drive transformational action in sustainability, human-centered workplaces, supply chain relations, and all functional departments across their organizations. Learn about these two new networks: HR Professionals and Sustainability Professionals Submit application.

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