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Healthy changes becoming habits

Through its Great Health Program, business-services provider CBIZ Tofias places great emphasis on its growing commitment to helping its associates and their dependents improve...

On-site offerings make health easy practice

Taking care of the health and wellness of its employees and their families is big business at Carousel Industries of North America Inc. This year,...

Employees challenge themselves

Providence engineering firm Wright-Pierce has been encouraging and supporting wellness for its employees for years. One program, the Wright Way to Wellness, was launched...
MAINTAINING FOCUS:  Alicia Samolis, a partner at Partridge Snow & Hahn, stays focused on delivering for her clients. / PBN PHOTO/JAIME LOWE

Samolis go-to on employment law

Attorney Alicia Samolis feels very lucky to have the opportunity to specialize in employment law – or what she calls the "juicy side" of...
A WEB OF CONNECTIONS: Hope Global CEO Cheryl Merchant, seen here with production team leader John Villegas, loves the connections with other people that being a leader requires her to make and takes satisfaction from their success. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A human approach to leadership

Cheryl Merchant has always been driven to lead and to teach. Back in 1984, after graduating with her bachelor's degree in business administration from Alma...
TAKING CHARGE: Roberta Gosselin, center, assistant vice president at Amica Insurance, has overseen the successful formation of a new 60-person accounting operations group, and led a major strategic initiative to redesign Amica's premium billing and collections processes. / PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE ALVAREZ EWENS

Gosselin returns to corporate world stronger, a team leader

Making a major decision that directly impacts your career is always challenging. Just ask Roberta Gosselin, senior assistant vice president for accounting at Amica...
NOT SO MEAN: Joe Greene, CFO and treasurer at Johnson & Wales University, says the school has a long history of offering many types of programs beyond hospitality and is always looking for its "next big thing." He is pictured here with administrative assistant Cathy Barrow, left, and executive assistant Gloria Hill. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

In it for the long haul ?at Johnson & Wales

As a lifelong Rhode Islander, Joe Greene is very passionate about the work he does as chief financial officer and treasurer at Providence-based Johnson...
IN SEARCH OF THE EDGE: Lean manufacturing and use of Kaizen principles have helped Hayward Industries prosper on a global scale. Pictured are technicians Joseph Veillette, right, and Chanouch Soeum with Hayward Industries Continuous Improvement Manager Gregory Fowler, standing. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Living lean and making big splash across the globe

For the nearly 200-person-strong team over at residential swimming pool equipment manufacturer Hayward Industries Inc. of North Kingstown, the concept of lean manufacturing means...

Bringing social wellness into the mainstream

Innovation is at the core of ShapeUp Inc., an 8-year-old Providence-based global provider of social networking and incentives-based employee-wellness solutions. In fact, ShapeUp founder...
5TH PLACE 
CEO (or equivalent):  Natale P. Calamis, president and CEO 2013 REVENUE: $41.2 million 2011 REVENUE: $34 million REVENUE GROWTH: 21%

Longtime broker finds opportunities abound

When manufacturer James Starkweather and insurance professional George Shepley decided to join forces back in 1879 in an attempt to change the way people...
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