Our September 2020 Coffee & Conversations featured Dennis Martino, a former Director of the New Hampshire Bureau of Education and Training, and Carolyn Russell, Senior Operational Analyst with the State of New Hampshire, discussing strategic planning in times of uncertainty. Municipal employees with long histories of leading organizations through potentially turbulent, Dennis and Carolyn offered their insight on best practices for strategic planning.
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Dennis Martino
Dennis is the former Director of the NH Bureau of Education and Training. He has taught leadership courses at the graduate level at several colleges. Prior to his current academic work, he had twenty-one years’ experience in Labor Relations as a union advocate and contract negotiator. Dennis has acted as a workplace mediator with both small and large agencies.
Carolyn Russell
Carolyn Russell is a Senior Operational Analyst with the State of New Hampshire and has worked as a planner and project manager in state government for over 20 years. Carolyn has led numerous strategic planning exercises for various types of state programs and organizations, including the state’s commissioners group. This past summer, Carolyn facilitated a remote, online strategic planning exercise for a new State Commission.
