NICC Presents Leadership Panel: Exploring the Relationship Between Organizational Culture, Leadership Behavior & Job Satisfaction

Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce invites you to join us for our Leadership Panel: Exploring the Relationship Between Organizational Culture, Leadership Behavior and Job Satisfaction, sponsored by The Brotherhood of Thieves, Thursday, January 26th, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, 23 Broad Street. 

Our expert panel of local leaders will offer their insights on managing diverse organizations in our unique island community. They'll discuss leadership strategies, career advancement tools, business transformation, adaptation, team morale and retention strategies to name a few. The event will be moderated by Michele Lee Occhipinti, founder of Ack Professional. It will be an impactful and interactive discussion you don't want to miss.

Welcome drink and delicious light bites provided by The Brotherhood of Thieves.

Moderator:

Michele Lee Occhipinti - Founder of Ack Professional

Michele Lee Occhipinti  is a world class premier peak performance leadership, life and home strategist who is on a mission to empower people to preserve their integrity, increase their life fulfillment, leadership and their impact to the world to become the best version of themselves. With over two decades working alongside executives at some of the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies, she brings a unique blend of life, leadership, business and home expertise to each of her clients.  Providing her experience for the top 1% worldwide. 

After a long, distinguished career with Executives in Corporate America, she resigned from the world’s top pharmaceutical company to follow her integrity and true passion for ultimate fulfillment in her life to empower individuals to transform their lives and achieve the success they seek to contribute to the world professionally and personally.   She continues to provide her experience for the world’s #1 Business and Life strategist and in the home for the #1 Northeast Real Estate Brokerage.
 
Speakers:

Cormac Collier - President & CEO of Nantucket Conservation Foundation

Cormac Collier graduated from the University of Vermont with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Natural Resources. Collier is the former Executive Director of Nantucket Land Council and led the organization for over 13 years. Prior to serving as NLC's Executive Director, he was a Resource Conservationist there and a botanist at the Cape Cod Seashore National Park in Truro. 

Frank Daily - Owner of Daily Construction & Nantucket Builder's Association President

Daily is the proud father of five daughters. An avid surfer, he knows first hand the ferocity of the ocean and the vulnerabilities of being 30 miles out to sea. When not translating the lessons of the ocean into the details of a construction process, he can be found with his wife Rachel, their daughters and their dogs; biking, running, skateboarding, snowboarding and of course, surfing. His "honest and direct everyday" name has proved to be prescient as he guides you through the construction and property management process.

Frank has served on the board of Family & Children's Services, The Nantucket New School and has maintained his position as Director on the board of the Nantucket Builder's Association for years. In June 2021, Frank was voted as the President on the Nantucket Builder's Association.

Denise Corson - Partner at Sea Smoke Hospitality

Denise Corson first landed on Nantucket in 2002 to join the island restaurant community. For the next many years, she spent summers on Nantucket and winters at various other tourist destinations. In Lake Tahoe & Mammoth Mountain, CA; Mount Snow, VT; and Vail, CO Denise gained experience in a wide variety of restaurants, bars, and clubs while indulging in one of her great passions, snowboarding. In Austin TX and West Palm, FL she worked at large scale corporate restaurants that showed different aspects of the restaurant operations.

Denise settled year round on Nantucket around 2010.  In her years in the Nantucket restaurant industry she has worked among many people she has looked up to and credits with teaching her a lot about hospitality and leadership. After being a part of the Island industry for some time, B-ACK Yard BBQ was opened in 2014. Soon after in 2015 Surfside Smokehouse opened in Plymouth MA. And The Charlie Noble in downtown Nantucket in 2017. 

Mary Casey - Hospital Thrift Store Executive Director

Mary Casey has been the Executive Director of the Hospital Thrift Shop for the past 8 years, where she is responsible for supervising all aspects of the operations at one of the oldest and largest not-for-profit organizations on the Island. In addition to managing a staff of three employees, she also manages close to 150 volunteers during the 5-month season running May-October.  In 2022, the Hospital Thrift Shop was able to provide the largest annual gift in their 93 year history to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital
in addition to providing highly affordable goods to our Nantucket community.

Mary’s prior work experience includes Christian Education Director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and Family Education Coordinator for the Community Network For Children of Nantucket. Mary is a graduate of Simmons University and earned her Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education & Child Development from Wheelock College/Boston University. Married to Jeff Blackwell and mother to two children, Mary has lived year round on the Island for close to 40 years.

Wendy Hudson - Co-Founder of Cisco Brewers and Nantucket Book Festival, Owner of Nantucket Book Partners

Wendy Hudson loves books and libations so much she has made a life out of those passions. She co-founded Cisco Brewers with her husband Randy in 1995, bought Nantucket Bookworks in 2000, and later Mitchell's Book Corner in 2012 to form Nantucket Book Partners. She co-founded the Nantucket Book Festival because she knew the island's love of books first-hand and wanted to elevate literature in the minds of young and old, visitors and islanders alike.