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Angie Addison -  MABC Member Profile

Milestones HR, LLC is a business-minded, people-focused Human Resources consulting service offering HR expertise to small and medium companies at various milestones in their progression including start up, growth, constriction, and transition. We offer outsourced Human Resources and/or Human Resources project based solutions.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/angie-addison-02b31310/

Services

Since 2014 Milestones HR has been serving small businesses in Human Resources related services including:

Build or Refine HR Infrastructure & Strategy: Is Human Resources your necessary evil? Let’s make it a functional and vital need in your business! Align the Human Resource function to work towards your company’s short and long term goals Create efficiency to reduce administrative costs.

Candidate Profiling, Recruiting, Selection, Background & Reference Checking, and Orientation/Onboarding: Who is in your corner? Secure the top talent that best complements your company. Acclimate the new hire to your culture so that they can contribute sooner.

Employee Relations, Conflict Resolution, and Internal Investigation Support: Let’s make sure your employees look forward to Mondays! Solve employee dissatisfaction to increase employee contributions.

Performance Management, Key Results Area Performance Assessments, & Employee Coaching: Are you getting 5+ years of experience or the same experience for 5+ years in a row? Link employee contributions to your company’s success while growing employee knowledge, skills and abilities.

HR Audits, Employee Handbook Policy & Procedure Writing & Review, and Legal compliance: What keeps you awake at night or always on edge? Identify and address liability areas to mitigate legal costs.

Outsourced Human Resources: We offer on-site and remote HR services to your employees so they have a consistent person to go to with HR related questions or concerns.

Background Info

We are results-focused consultants who enjoy all aspects of Human Resources and the value that solid practices can bring to both individuals and companies collectively. We offer outsourced Human Resources Generalist services to companies who need Human Resources expertise but do not require a full-time Human Resources presence.

We enjoy working with small to medium-sized professional service businesses. We have been fortunate to work in both a Human Resources and an Operations capacity allowing us to become familiar with the inner workings of a company. We use this knowledge to partner with business leaders on how to best integrate Human Resources as a contributing function of the business.

We offer various solutions including serving as an on-site or off-site human resources generalist in a short or long term capacity, complementing existing Human Resources teams with project work, and/or setting up an HR function and then training existing employees to maintain it.

We have led the Human Resources function from setting up a Human Resources department from scratch to improving an existing function. The results of my work have included:

- Creating highly functional, mission-focused Human Resources systems & processes.

- Managing organizational structure through rapid growth or constriction for various disciplines.

- Partnering with company leaders to implement recruitment strategies reducing the hire time for needed talent and building a future candidate pool.

- Securing the right hires by identifying candidate profiles, recruiting, conducting behavioral interviewing, candidate selection, background & reference checking.

- Creating and onboarding new hires to increase the new employee’s ability to acclimate and contribute to the company’s goals.

- Designing and implementing real time, results focused performance appraisal and development programs.

- Creating and updating policies including Employee Handbooks.

-Serving as your employee's HR team, including surveying for employee engagement and being a resource for employees.

- Securing and aligning benefit offerings (health, dental, life, disability, 401(k), Vacation/PTO, etc.) with demographic needs of employees, company size, industry and budget.

Consulting Specialties

• ·       Human Resources
• ·       Performance Improvement
• ·       Business Strategy
• ·       Conflict Management
• ·       Employee Relations

Check your calendar for this evening April 10th at 5 pm! You don't want to miss attending MABC - Madison Area Business Consultants and Jennifer Revels program tonight on Authentic Branding!
Guests are welcome to come check it out for free.
Details to register are below.

Join us for MABC Live! and Unlock the Keys to Your Authentic Brand — an interactive workshop designed to help you deeply connect with your audience by aligning with who you truly are.

Led by the incredible Jennifer Revels of Revels Consulting & Coaching, this session will explore the transformative systems of Human Design and Gene Keys to help you uncover your unique energy blueprint.

You’ll learn how to:
 ✨ Align your brand with your authentic self
 ✨ Market in a way that feels natural and magnetic
 ✨ Attract your ideal clients with ease
 ✨ Stand out in a crowded market

Whether you're a solopreneur or a growing team, this experience will equip you with insights to show up powerfully and purposefully in your business.

Date: Thursday, April 10
 ⏰ Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
  Location: Serendipity Labs, 525 Junction Rd, Ste 6500, Madison, WI 53717
  Register here: https://lnkd.in/ge8sExhC

A note from our MABC President: Please bring a guest—colleague or client! Let's grow together.

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MABC Live!

Unlock the Keys to Your Authentic Brand – Deeply Connect with Your Target Audience 

An interactive workshop experience

With Jennifer Revels 
Revels Consulting & Coaching

In this workshop, we’ll dive into the powerful systems of Human Design and Gene Keys to help you understand your unique energy blueprint and how to harness it for personal growth and marketing success.

You will discover how to align with your authentic self to build a brand that resonates deeply with your ideal clients.

Learn to leverage your strengths and gifts, embrace your natural flow, and show up as your truest self in your marketing—ultimately creating a brand that feels aligned, magnetic, and true to who you are.

Leave this workshop with insights to attract the right audience and stand out in a crowded market by embracing your unique design!

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

       

Jennifer Revels is an HR consultant and leadership coach with over 25 years of experience in helping leaders and small business owners like you with all facets of hiring and managing teams … and when necessary, having difficult conversations or making changes, in the right way and with minimal legal risk. 

REGISTER TODAY FOR THIS FREE EVENT!

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What: MABC Live! Event | Unlock the Keys to Your Authentic Brand

Date:  Thursday, April 10

Time:  5:00 pm - 6:30 pm 

Location:   Serendipity Labs, 525 Junction Rd, Ste 6500, Madison, WI 53717

Message from our MABC President:
Please Bring a Guest Colleague or Client!

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Founded in 1987, we provide members opportunities for education, networking, and collaboration to aid in providing high-quality consulting services to clients.

Jennifer Revels - MABC Member Profile

Leadership/HR Coach/Consultant, Personal Growth & Retreats/Workshops, Recruiter

I help passionate and caring small business leaders develop or adjust their talent strategies and employee communications, retain top performers, optimize team relationships/dynamics, and bring in employee well being guidance & programs. I also help businesses recruit and hire leaders and professionals for key positions. Finally, my biggest passion is empowering and coaching individuals and leaders to find a path to their purpose, passion and dreams in their work and other pursuits….and help leaders find balance for themselves while also developing those types of growth coaching practices and strategies for their team. I can also be a growth coach in a workplace for employees and offer other empowering workshops to enhance the vibe and provide neutral support for people on a personal and professional level.

HR Consulting • Management Consulting • Leadership Development • Career Development Coaching • Executive Coaching • Interview Preparation • Public Speaking • Corporate Events

Develop or adjust talent and employee communication strategies, optimize team relationships/dynamics, facilitate retreats and workplace workshops/programs to enhance employee well being. 25+ years of HR expertise and leadership coaching/advising allows me to provide a unique perspective to business leaders. By lasering in on relationship building and fostering strong communications/expectations, I can help business leaders who are struggling with getting the right people in the right positions, and enhance employee retention. Strategies and solutions are also offered to target team dynamics and conflict management. Specific and customized services include overall talent strategy/employee communications assessment; professional/executive search/recruitment solutions; leadership coaching/on-call services; personal growth coaching and guidance for team members, and workplace workshop or retreat planning/facilitation.

Consultants: It's time to move out of isolation and into connection.

Join us for MABC Live! and Unlock the Keys to Your Authentic Brand — an interactive workshop designed to help you deeply connect with your audience by aligning with who you truly are.

Led by the incredible Jennifer Revels of Revels Consulting & Coaching, this session will explore the transformative systems of Human Design and Gene Keys to help you uncover your unique energy blueprint.

You’ll learn how to:
✨ Align your brand with your authentic self
✨ Market in a way that feels natural and magnetic
✨ Attract your ideal clients with ease
✨ Stand out in a crowded market

Whether you're a solopreneur or a growing team, this experience will equip you with insights to show up powerfully and purposefully in your business.

Date: Thursday, April 10
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Serendipity Labs, 525 Junction Rd, Ste 6500, Madison, WI 53717
Register here:https://lnkd.in/ge8sExhC

A note from our MABC President: Please bring a guest—colleague or client! Let's grow together.

hashtag#MABChashtag#AuthenticBrandinghashtag#Consultantshashtag#HumanDesignhashtag#GeneKeyshashtag#LeadershipDevelopmenthashtag#SmallBusinessGrowthhashtag#MarketingAuthentically

Tom Dahl - Dahl Financial Group MABC Member Profile

https://www.dahlfs.com/

Our Mission Statement:

Our commitment is to listen and work with intention to provide independent solutions that simplify and enhance our clients’ lives.

Value Proposition:

We are passionate about providing a road map for our clients that encompasses sound ethical advice, thoughtful planning, and integrity in our recommendations you can trust. Together with our associates and professional specialists, we provide objective guidance by following our unique process by placing special emphasis on risk management. We take it exceptionally serious the responsibility and trust our clients have in us.

We also seek to earn the right to be referred to family, friends, and colleagues.

I’ve been a financial advisor since 1989 with clients throughout Dane and Sauk Counties including Madison, Middleton, McFarland, CrossPlains, Sauk City and Prairie du Sac. I became an independent financial advisor to assist families, corporate executives and business owners with their financial affairs.

I can provide you with the following services:

• Vanguard ETF's Managed Asset Plans
• Risk Assesment
• Financial Planning
• Tax-Advantaged Investing
• Insurance Needs
• College Savings
• Retirement Planning
• 401ks, SEP's and SIMPLE's
• Mutual Funds
• Annuities

Securities and advisory services offered through Independent Financial Group, LLC (IFG), a Registered Investment Adviser. Member FINRA/SIPC. Dahl Financial Group and IFG are unaffiliated entities. For a list of states in which we are registered to do business, please visit www.Dahlfs.com Information provided is from sources believed to be reliable however, we cannot guarantee or represent that it is accurate or complete. Because situations vary, any information provided on this site is not intended to indicate suitability for any particular investor. Hyperlinks are provided as a courtesy and should not be deemed as an endorsement. When you link to a third party website you are leaving our site and assume total responsibility for your use or activity on the third party sites

Frances Parker - Group Chair/Executive Mentor @ Executive Agenda | Certified Consistency Coach™

https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesparkercoach/

Overview

Executive Agenda (EA) is committed to helping executives be more successful through issue discussion, problem resolution, idea sharing and accountability within tightly knit groups of 12 – 15 members representing various functional disciplines from non-competing companies. EA benefits include helping members make better decisions; be accountable; experience professional and personal growth; overcome any sense of isolation; and initiate and manage appropriate change.

EXECUTIVE COACHING:
I lead executive peer groups in the greater Madison, WI area that offer deep professional and personal growth and development. Called Executive Agenda, each group consists of 12-16 hand-selected, non-competing executives from all business disciplines and from various industries. Working with leaders who are passionate about what they do and have a variety of opinions, backgrounds and job functions brings me great energy and joy. We meet quarterly in a safe, trusting environment to help address each person’s issues and opportunities, offer guidance around potential next steps, and hold members accountable for follow-up on each action item. During our individual 1:1 sessions, I listen intently and ask probing questions so that you discover what is at the root of your issue and find creative solutions. Through these processes and discussions, participants grow to become even greater exceptional leaders.

ACCOUNTABILITY COACHING: 
Background: Frances Parker spent over 25 years as a corporate manager and director within four major pharmaceutical companies. She held positions in a multitude of disciplines including merchandising, marketing, sales, pharmacy affairs, operations, customer service, distribution, regulatory, project management and quality. During that time, she focused the development of key skills: effective communication across all levels; complex, cross-functional problem solving; strategy development and implementation, and leadership. Frances is known for her engaging and inclusive style, her inquisitive and optimistic nature, and her innate ability to connect with people.

She is best known for finding unique, resourceful solutions to multi-faceted issues while also thinking through the intricate details of implementation. She is passionate about the coaching and mentoring of others to achieve their personal and professional goals and aspirations.

Services

·        Executive Coaching

·        Leadership Development

·        Life Coaching

·        Management Consulting

MABC Member Profile - Karen Durham - Certified Transformational Life Coach + Communications Consultant

Dedicated to personal development and a spiritually principled life for over 20 years, Karen Cross Durham is a Certified DreamBuilder Coach who works with individuals to help them realize their dreams and create richer, more fulfilling lives.

Karen is also an experienced communications professional having worked in the arts for more than 25 years, including for a variety of film organizations for over 20 years.

Services

Life Coaching in the areas of health and well-being, love and relationships, vocation, and time and money freedom

Integrated Communications experience in press relations, social media, marketing, email newsletters, advertising, writing/editing/proofreading, partnerships, sponsorships, board and advocacy groups, organizations in leadership transitions

Background Info

Current: DreamBuilder Coach; Communications Committee, Friends of San Damiano

Past: Communications Consultant; Marketing & PR Specialist, Wisconsin Film Festival + UW Cinematheque; Associate Director of PR & Marketing, Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Events Publicist, Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.)

Consulting Specialties

Coaching & Personal Development

Communications

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-cross-durham/

March 13^th Program Presentation

The 2 Step Sales Process for Consultants

with Reuben Swartz, Founder of Mimiran

It's easy to make sales and marketing too complicated. (I spent over a decade as a sales and marketing consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and I made the mistake of trying to adopt processes that worked for my clients into my tiny business.) The simpler, the better.

If you're in a relationship business, you're in a conversation business.

And if you're in a conversation business, here's your 2-step sales (and marketing) process:

1. Figure out exactly who you want to have conversations with.

2. Have conversations with them.

That's it.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Reuben Swartz

Reuben Swartz is the founder of Mimiran, the fun CRM for independent consultants who love serving clients but hate "selling". He's also the host and chief nerd on the Sales for Nerds podcast. He went from a background in computer science and software engineering to sales and marketing consulting for the Fortune 500, while struggling with sales and marketing for his own firm. His mission is to help other independent consultants make a bigger dent in the universe and get more clients by using their talents to teach instead of market, connect instead of network, and help instead of sell.

Hope to see you there!

March 13, 2025      8:00am - 10:00am CST

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Agenda

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8:00-8:30 a.m. CST  - Open Zoom Networking

8:30-9:00 a.m. CST - Meeting opening remarks

9:00-9:45 a.m. CST - Program

9:45-10:00 a.m. CST - Questions & Answers

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Program Logistics

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Who. For all B2B consultants craving collegiality, collaboration, and real conversation. Guests welcome!

What. Monthly program providing networking, relevant education, and personal and professional growth opportunities. 

When. Thursday, March 13 • 8:00 AM–10:00 AM CST

Where. Zoom Meeting ID will be in your registration confirmation email

Cost. Free for Members & Guests

RSVP. Register Today!

Guests always welcome!

Membership Statement: Guests are welcome to attend up to 3 events in any format for free. Membership is then required to access programming, networking, and special projects or events.

Master the 2-Step Sales Process for Consultants!
Are you a consultant who loves serving clients but hates "selling"? You're not alone! Join us for an insightful session with Reuben Swartz, Founder of Mimiran, to simplify your sales approach and build authentic client relationships.
Date: March 13, 2025
Time: 8-10 AM
Location: Zoom from the comfort of your home or office
✅ What You’ll Learn:
Why keeping sales & marketing simple is the key to success.
How to identify exactly who you want to have conversations with.
How to actually have those conversations—without feeling "salesy."
"If you're in a relationship business, you're in a conversation business." -Reuben Swartz
About the Presenter:
Reuben Swartz is the founder ofMimiran CRM, the fun CRM for independent consultants, and host of the Sales for Nerds podcast. With a background in software engineering and Fortune 500 consulting, he helps consultants teach instead of market, connect instead of network, and help instead of sell.

Reserve your spot today!https://lnkd.in/gyQrQ-EW

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