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Tania Music

March 2, 2024 by

Tania has held a variety of positions including Owner and Co-Founder, Director of Sales & Marketing, Sr. Director of Operations, Manager or Digital Content & Manager of Employee Development. She has previously worked with many leaders in the Professional Development space managing responsibilities ranging from joint-ventures, community engagement and communications. Tania is most proud of building an international team of over 100 members and training them to coach and support thousands of individuals to fundraise, leading to the generation of over $150MM in donations over 5 years. In her spare time, Tania enjoys hiking and playing with her partner Tom and their two dogs and scuba diving (mostly in cold water).

Steve Barclay

March 1, 2024 by

Steve is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps where he deployed to Fallujah, Iraq as an infantry team leader. He has held a variety of positions in the private sector including Operations Manager and Senior Manager, Operations and was previously with AnswerHero as VP of Operations where he was responsible for overseeing call center operations, business development, training, quality assurance, customer experience, and human resources, while also designing and executing on long term strategic initiatives. Steve is most proud of successfully navigating many projects with substantial impact on the business such as a consolidation of all software applications for the customer’s journey, a re-brand of the company, creating and communicating their Core Values, and a replacement of the underlying call center software while ensuring zero disruption to the on-going call center operations. In his spare time, Steve enjoys spending time with his wife, Amber, and his two children Isabella (11) and Jackson (5). He is an avid fan of the Tampa Bay Lighting and the McLaren Formula 1 team, the latter of which inspired him to build a racing simulator in his garage to channel both his inner nerd and didn’t-quite-make-it racing driver.

Candice Saltzman

February 28, 2024 by

Candice is a high-energy, people person currently living in the sunny state of Arizona. Candice began her career in staffing and Human Resources over 17 years ago in Minneapolis Minnesota for an in-home health company. She has since spent her time progressing within her career as a Human Resources Generalist eventually leading her to focus primarily on talent acquisition and strategy.

Some of the focus areas for Candice within talent acquisition have been company growth, recruitment strategy, candidate and employee experience, and company branding as it applies to talent acquisition. She has also been heavily involved in retention projects to ensure companies are both obtaining and retaining top talent. Candice truly enjoys people and implementing best practices.

When Candice isn’t spending her time working to find top talent, she is with her 3 children, Lola, Tucker, and Bennett. She and her family enjoy spending time exploring, attending sporting and school events or traveling back to Minnesota to visit family. In her free time, she also enjoys reading, gardening, and cooking. Candice is a very family-focused individual who finds the importance of having both a happy work and home life.

Nichole Hanscom

February 27, 2024 by

With more than 30 years of professional experience in the legal field, Nichole has worn just about every hat there is to wear – Assistant, Attorney, Community Liaison, Operations Director, Administrative Counsel, and Owner. She has held high-level positions in organizations of more than 300 people and with multi-million dollar budgets. In addition to running large operations, she has launched non-profit and for-profit businesses from the ground up. Nichole has spent the last two decades focused on helping businesses (especially law firms) run more productively and deliver better results. Prior to joining the HTM team as an Advisor, Nichole was a member! She owned an operations consulting business and was affiliated with a boutique law firm that helped creative entrepreneurs. Before opening her own businesses, Nichole was the Operations Director and Administrative Counsel for the Public Defender’s Office in Tampa, Florida, and consulted for other Public Defenders across Florida from the Panhandle to the Keys. In these roles, Nichole was responsible for designing solutions, leading teams, and building systems that handled legal representation on both the large and small scales. She was also sought after to lead strategic planning, growth management, conflict resolution, and leadership development programs in legal and non-legal organizations across Florida. A life-long advocate for equal access and opportunity, Nichole joined to How to Manage so that she could help lawyers help more people.

Beth Freeman

February 25, 2024 by

Beth Freeman has held a variety of positions including Law Firm Administrator, Owner of a Professional Coaching Business, and Real Estate Investor. Beth was previously with a non-profit organization with 12,000 members as a Sr. Director and Executive Team Member. She was responsible for the development of two departments, seven Directors, and multiple teams consisting of 135 leaders, coaches, and support staff in the creation and implementation of programs across seven Chicagoland locations. This included overseeing the delivery of multi-location weekly events for thousands of members, leading monthly workshops, and delivering keynote messages for annual conferences. Beth is most proud of her volunteer work in her community over the last few decades, mentoring women of all ages and stages of life. Beth has been leading people and developing businesses for 28 years. In her spare time, Beth enjoys long walks with her husband, game nights with her kids, reading to her two grandkids, riding horses, and journaling.

Erika Ferenczi

February 24, 2024 by

Erika Ferenczi has held a variety of positions including growing her own successful coaching firm as a business consultant. She was also a product manager in the pharmaceutical industry responsible for the marketing and sales of one of the companies’ business units. From there she worked in Nextel (telecommunications company in Lima Peru) and was responsible for customer service and quality control of all cellphones and devices on the client facing facilities. She also held a leadership position at Ballina & Associates, a financial development firm where she was responsible for generating and creating financial reports and projections for hotels to request loans from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Erika is most proud of her achievements as a business unit leader for marketing and sales deliverables, of her Amazon best-selling book “Beyond the Lies: The Way Women Sacrifice Freedom by Relying on Others,” and of her entrepreneurial achievement of building and running her own coaching business. Erika studied Business and majored in Finance and Marketing. After several years in the corporate world, Erika went back to school to study psychology and human behavior, and became certified as a Master Professional Coach. In her spare time, Erika enjoys skiing, scuba-diving, white-water rafting, and everything that takes her to the outdoors with her four children, husband and her three dogs, a cocker spaniel (Scott), a Westie Highlander (Sophie) and a Bernadoodle (Aspen).

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