Fields Associates Management Consultants

Welcome to FieldsAssociates.com!

To succeed in the domestic and global marketplace, organizations need to align business and human resources management strategies. Our work helps clients to sustain a dynamic, diverse, and productive workforce. Our client relationships have been built upon a foundation of experience and trust.

Clients turn to us for consulting and training services that utilize best practice information. Our “out of the box” thinking helps them to;
improve their bottom line,
increase productivity and moral
enhance customer service
improve shareholder value.

We hope you get to know us better by exploring this website, but please don’t hesitate to call or email us so that we can answer any questions that you might have.

Overview

Fields Associates, Inc., located in the heart of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an international management consulting and training firm that specializes in connecting human resources to business strategies. Founded in 1994, Fields Associates impressive international cross-industry client list includes Fortune 500 companies, Ivy league schools and some of the world's top non-profit organizations.

Values

Striving for excellence and integrity always, Fields Associates creates Win/Win situations that help clients to achieve business and Social Responsibility goals.

Fields Associates attains Customer Delight by making Knowledge Transfer and Information Sharing a priority. As experts and industry leaders, we help our clients to acquire internal expertise in a variety of areas.

Often, this involves Individual and Geese Leadership – getting the whole organization to participate as leaders and “honk” each other on to success. Whether its clients are in the Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall of their existence, Fields Associates is ready to meet clients where they are and set Everything In Its Season.

As Corporate Cupids and Relationship Builders we often form strategic alliances and collaborate with some of the world’s top thinkers and organizations to deliver high quality services that yield measurable results.

Strategic Alliances

Our internationally recognized diverse staff are experts in their fields and are seasoned practitioners who’ve “been there.” They not only know management theory, but have worked as managers and executives in some of the world’s top organizations and understand first hand the challenges of managing an ever changing workforce. Read some of our examples of Strategic Alliances

Corporate Cupiding

When most of us think about the concept of networking, we see individuals communicating with each other. It can also involve interactions between corporations/organizations. Years ago, when Fields Associates founder Martha R. A. Fields was searching for a term to describe what happens when corporations come together to network, and share best, interesting and radical practices, she devised the term “corporate cupiding.”

What is corporate cupiding?

1. Helping organizations love and learn from each other, as well as the people within them.
2. Connecting organizations together to explore best, interesting and radical practices and win/win solutions to issues.
3. The act of bringing groups and/or individuals in organizations and corporations together to help them expand their business and/or relationships.
Source: Martha R. A. Fields

Quite often, Fields Associates practices corporate cupiding through its work in and outside corporations. Holding conferences where diverse companies and industries are invited or speaking at professional association meetings and dispensing information about best, interesting and radical business practices are just a few ways that corporate cupiding is practiced by Fields Associates staff.

Corporate cupiding can also take place inside an organization. The corporate cupid can be very effective when he shoots his darts and brings together departments or divisions and the individuals within them. Often, organizations have best, interesting and radical practices inside but people are not aware of them and how they might be utilized effectively in other parts of the company. Here, Fields Associates works as a corporate cupid to bring various entities inside organizations together to share practices, policies and procedures as well as build stronger working relationships.

Soaring higher as a Corporate Cupid, Fields Associates assembles respected experts in their field to deliver programs and services. They often form strategic alliances and collaborate with some of the world’s top thinkers and organizations. In addition, they successfully work with senior management teams, boards and employees to enhance, support and develop their overall business strategies.

Examples of Strategic Alliances

Building lasting strategic alliances is a large part of what we do. In the past, we have partnered with such organizations as:

* the Harvard University Office of Employment - produced a Diversity Recruitment Resource Guide

* FORTUNE magazine - hosted a networking dinner where top companies had the opportunity to learn more about FORTUNE and vice versa

* Linkage, Inc. - assisted them in producing and co-chairing the Annual Summit on Leading Diversity which is one of the nation’s most prestigious Diversity conferences for corporations and diversity practitioners

* FleetBoston Financial, the Gillette Company and Harvard University - brought these organizations together through corporate-cupding to host a series on Recruiting and Retaining Indispensable Employees

* The National Black MBA Association - with this organization developed and implemented a “breakthrough series” to help members acquire advance management skills during turbulent times

* UnityFirst.com/African American Newswire - worked with this organization to sponsor seminars to bring together communities and CEOs from companies such as Bows, TJX Companies (Marshals, Home Goods, TJ Maxx, A.J. Wright, Metro West Chamber of Commerce and Staples)

* Society for Human Resource Management and NorthEast Human Resource Association - developed a website toolkit which provides best, interesting and radical practices about the nation’s top organizations and what they are doing around issues related to recruiting and retaining diverse employees

Fields Associates also collaborates frequently with top thinkers and renowned experts to assemble and deliver successful programs that exceed client expectations.

Expertise and Mission

Martha is President, CEO and founder of Fields Associates, Inc, which is located in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is an author, keynote speaker, management consultant and expert on the workforce, diversity and globalization. She prides herself as a “corporate cupid,” mentor and strong supporter of social responsibility.

Fields Associates’ mission is to “connect Human Resources with business strategies to make a memorable positive difference within people, organizations and the world.”

Background

Martha has over 25 years of experience in management and is an internationally recognized expert and leader in the field of Human Resources. Martha has a degree from Boston University in Sociology and Hispanic studies and undertook doctoral studies there. She draws upon her training, worldwide experiences and skills as a mother of a teenage daughter to assist organizations with strategic and project planning, management development, human resources, work/life integration and diversity and globalization issues.

A self-described “citizen of the world,” she has traveled widely to such locations as the Amazon Jungle, Jamaica and the Andes Mountains and lived in several parts of the world, including Okinawa. Prior to starting her firm, she served as a Vice President at a Harvard Medical School affiliated teaching hospital, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. She was also the Director of Human Resources at the Harvard Community Health Plan, and manager of Employee Relations and Training and Development at Boston’s Children’s Hospital.

Recognition

An experienced lecturer and writer, Ms. Fields has been quoted in such publications as FORTUNE, The New York Times, Kiplinger and The Boston Globe. The Boston Herald called her a “consultant, a coach for change.” As a much sought after presenter at corporate functions and member of the National Speakers Association, she has taught college courses and is a frequent keynote speaker at professional association meetings.

Martha has addressed audiences as diverse as the Harvard Business School, Ad Clubs, Chambers of Commerce, The Society for Human Resource Management, United Way and American Red Cross Executives, NICSA – The National Investment Company Service Association, The National Black MBA Association and managers at Harley-Davidson.

American Airlines included Fields Associates in its 2002 tribute to six of Boston’s top companies.

Accomplishments

Martha is the author of the popular book Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them. Her latest book is Love your work by Loving your Life. She also has a yet-to-be-released novel entitled Dancing with the Sun.

She has held numerous board positions including: Bentley College’s Human Resources Management Program Advisory Board, Harvard Medical Schools’ Biomedical Science Career Project, National Human Resources Board, Dimock Community Health Center’s Board of Visitors.

She is the former president of the Boston Human Resources Association and is the year 2001 recipient of the John D. Erdlen Five Star Award, the most distinguished award given by the Northeast Human Resources Association/Society for Human Resource Management in recognition of outstanding accomplishments of an organization or individual of the human resources profession.

Keynote and Facilitation

Up to
90 Minutes Up to
Three Hours Up to
Six Hours

State of
Massachusetts $7,500 $8,500 $10,000

Continental United
States $10,000 $11,000 $12,500

Non-Profit Rates $5,000 $6,000 $7,500

Consideration of reduced fees will be given to clients who book multiple engagements

All courses also require a per person workbook charge for course materials. Charges typically range from $5 - $25 depending upon the keynote address or session.

Other Services

When these services are at the SAME Keynote or Facilitation Event

Book signings may be conducted at an event free of charge

Panel participation (up to 90 minutes) - $1200

Facilitation (strategic planning, problem solving or consulting services): up to three hours - $3500; up to six hours - $6000

Custom articles of 250 - 2000 words on speech topic or related subject for client and/or industry publication - quotes are available upon request

Electronic recording and duplication distribution rights - quotes are available upon request. Recordings must be approved prior to distribution

Fees for customized books, tapes, CD ROM's are available upon request

Exepenses

Ms. Fields is committed to keeping expenses as low as possible for the client. Clients pay for unrestricted round trip coach airfare, moderate meals and ground transportation. Auto mileage is calculated at $.28 per mile or the customary company allowance - whichever is higher. Hotel accommodations must be billed directly to the client organization and guaranteed for late arrival. A 30% nonrefundable deposit is required to secure an engagement. Cancellation fees will be applied.

Keynote Highlights

Key recommendations for leveraging the power and business impact of diversity

Case profiles of best practice organizations: how they build and maintain their diversity programs, critical success factors and major challenges they faced

How diversity can dramatically impact the bottom line

Demographic shifts and trends every executive must know

Ways leadership must drive the commitment to diversity throughout the organization

How to measure the effectiveness of diversity initiatives

Consumer buying power - what you don't know could hurt you

Keynote Highlights

The specific challenges that organizations face in handling race issues that are not just black and white but multiracial

Ways to incorporate the issues of White males, Asians and Latinos into the diversity dialogue

Special concerns that surface as Baby Boomers, Mature Workers, Generation Xers and Generation Yers converge in the workplace

Why work/life balance matters (and how to get there)

Why hiring individuals with disabilities makes good business sense

Tips on how to bring middle and senior management up to speed on these issues

Keynote Highlights

Understand why becoming more diverse must be an organizational and personal priority to survive in the future

Learn how to feel more comfortable around, and work more effectively with people whose opinions, values, beliefs, traditions, education, training and occupations may be different

Manage discomfort related to culture, age, gender, sexual orientation, and positions within the organization.

Minimize offending people who are different and what to do if you make a mistake

Understand some basic tips and approaches to become more diverse

Overview

Regardless of economic highs or lows, or the changing world landscape prompted by war and tragic events such as 9-11, the competition to keep competent skilled talent is just heating up. With fewer new people entering the workforce over the next several years, more organizations are realizing that the best way to recruit is to retain.

Finding, then holding on to your most competent employees is more challenging than ever. What must you do to adapt to the new workforce where the rules of the game are constantly changing? How do you prevent competitors from luring key talent away?

In this highly interactive, fun and information-packed keynote address from Martha R.A. Fields, expert on the workforce and author of the popular book, Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How To Keep Them., you will explore creative strategies to maximize your recruitment and retention dollars.

Keynote Highlights

Despite economic downturn and the tragic volatile events, why the race to retain top diverse talent will become more fierce and the secrets to what an organization can do now to say in the game.

Diversity and the next generation of issues facing the workforce.

Who are indispensable employees? What employers want from them and vice versa.

Best, interesting and radical retention and recruitment practices utilized by large and small organizations in a variety of industries.

Overview

Internationally recognized workplace and diversity expert, Martha R. A. Fields, who is chairwoman and CEO of Fields Associates, Inc. and author of the popular book Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them., leads this highly interactive, fun-filled and information/data packed telecom seminar that is based on concepts from her new book Love Your Work by Loving Your Life.

Keynote Highlights

Love your work by understanding your life's purpose and how it links to your career.

Become a corporate Most Valuable Player without compromising what matters to you most in life.

Bounce back after tragedy and change in the workplace and in life.

How to manage a 4-letter word BOSS, and toot your horn even if the boss isn't listening.

Shocking statistics that reveal what you must do to survive and thrive in the future world and at work

Overview

Experts tell us that most employees will have six to seven careers and 15 jobs in a lifetime. Over the last decade jobs in human resources management have also changed dramatically. In this highly interactive session by Martha R.A. Fields, author of the popular book Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them., you will learn the secrets to turning yourself into a ME, Inc. - your own corporation. The ME, Inc. concept helps you to position your career for success, but does not necessarily mean that you will leave your current job.

By transforming yourself into a ME, Inc. you will be empowered to structure your career in your organization as an employee, or on the outside as a consultant or business owner.

Keynote Highlights

What is ME, Inc and how do you position yourself to look like a corporation but not leave your company or job

Workplace trends now and in the future that may impact your HR career and what you can do to position yourself for success

Networking tips for the "I hate to network" person

What type of people should be in your ME, Inc. in order for you to be successful

Overview

The rules of the workplace have changed and so have the players. Experience is no longer defined solely on how long you've been in your job or the organization. Because of their technological savvy, in some instances individuals in their early 20's and 30's are more knowledgeable and have replaced Baby Boomers and Matures as "seasonal" workers.

There are currently three generations in the workforce - the Matures/Older Workers, the Baby Boomers and the Generation Xers. Generation Y is rapidly coming of workforce age.

What has to happen to create a positive work environment when Generation X meet (and sometimes collides) with Baby Boomers and Mature Workers?

If you're interested in managing more effectively across generations and want to learn about some approaches that work, this seminar is for you.

Keynote Highlights

Tactics to help recruit and retain multigenerational talent

How to create positive work environments based upon where employees are in their life cycle

Who are Generation Xers, Baby Boomers and Mature Workers

Ways to encourage cross-generational dialogues

Tips on how to manage across generations

Best and interesting practices for managing across generations

Keynote Highlights

Understanding the differences between managing and leading

Committing to exceeding customer expectations

Thinking constantly toward the future

Managing and building relationships with individuals and teams

Leading by example/serving as role models

Lessons learned from how geese lead vs. how buffalo lead

Low cost/no cost ways to lead and motivate staff

Approaches to catch people doing something right

Preview

Whether you love MTV or AARP, this book has a message for you.

WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE MISERABLE AND NOT LOVING THEIR WORK OR LIFE?
Despite an erratic economy, tough times and world conflict, there IS hope. Martha R. A. Fields, author of the blockbuster book, Love your work by Loving your Life (LwL²), provides reality-based and expert tested solutions plus inspiration. This book is a must read whether you are a professional or a person with street smarts and seek fresh approaches to help you love your work and your life. Learn seven, powerful secrets and apply them to your life.

Hear employee perspectives from such diverse companies as American Program Bureau • Cisco Systems • Fidelity Investments • Kodak • Linkage, Inc. • Merck • New England Journal of Medicine • Partners Health Care • Rosie’s Bakery • Sepracor • UnityFirst.com • Shell Oil • Sprint • Wachovia

Reviews

“If you are doing something you don’t enjoy, no money in the world will make you happy. LwL² is a fantastic book overflowing with wise words to help you and your company succeed.”
Henry Ryan, Director of Human Resource Services, Harvard University

“When you step into an orbiter, it’s not like going to the corner store to get a quart of milk. This is serious stuff. Many times in my life, milliseconds of time have kept me safe. What is going to happen is going to happen. It’s a matter of fate, of destiny. I truly believe whether you are waking up, tripping over a shoe, or getting into a shuttle, you shouldn’t live life in fear.”
Leland Melvin, NASA Astronaut; Former NFL Football Player

“As a general, I had to have fun in my life and really like what I was doing to motivate my troops to accomplish our mission. As a leader, LwL² means you have to love the employees, the mission, and making the bottom line.”
Lt. General David Ohle, U.S. Army Retired

Book Contributors

Individuals from the following companies are featured in LwL²:

American Airlines
American Program Bureau
Archdiocese of Boston
Arnold Worldwide
Barajas & Associates
Basic Diversity
Bates Communications, Inc.
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Bentley College
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Boston Bare Association
Boston Communications Group
Bright Horizons
Business Women’s Network (BWN)
Cambridge Trust
Cheetah Learning
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Clarks Companies, NA
The Commonwealth Institute
Commonwealth of Mass. Dept. of Mental Health
Couto Management Group, LLC
Concord Middle School
Cromwell Consulting
Debora Bloom Associates
DiversityInc
Diversity Best Practices
Emerson Consulting
Feaster Enterprises
Fields Associates, Inc.
Fisher College
FleetBoston Financial
Fidelity Investments
Gardenswartz & Rowe
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Green Leaf Consulting Group, Inc.
Hanamura Consulting
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard University
High Impact Marketing Media
Highland Consulting
Howard University
HQ Global Workplaces
Jobs For the Future
Kodak
Linkage, Inc.
Love Living Life (L³)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Massachusetts Medical Society
McWade Group, Inc.
Merck & Company, Inc.
Metro PowerNet, LLC
MITRE
Monica’s Beauty Salon
National Aeronautics Space Administration
(NASA)
Network World
New Dimensions in Technology, Inc.
New England Journal of Medicine
New England Network Group, Inc.
New Tilt
North Carolina State University
NorthEast Human Resources Association
(NEHRA)
Package Machinery Company, Inc.
Partners Healthcare
The Partnership, Inc.
Party City of Raleigh
Raytheon Company
Results Marketing
Rosaline’s SkinCare & Spa
Rosie’s Bakery
S.D.K Financial
Sepracor
Shell Oil Company
Shipley Company, LLC
Small Business Dev. Center—Howard University
Society for Human Resource Management
Sprint
Stream Productions
Stybel Peabody Lincolnshire
Suffolk University Law School
The TJX Companies, Inc.—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and AJ Wright
Tufts Health Plan
Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Army
U.S. Marines
UnityFirst.com/ African American Newswire
Wachovia
Watertown High School
Watertown Middle School
Willmott & Associates
Women’s Business
Women Presidents’ Organization
Yankee Partners, LLC

Interviews

Read compelling interviews with living legends:

Marsha Firestone, Ph.D., Founder of the Women Presidents’ Organization whose members’ revenues average $11 million

Leland Melvin, NASA Astronaut and former NFL Player for the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions

Lt. General David Ohle, U.S. Army Retired, Former Head of Human Resources responsible for 1.1 million people

Reverend C.T. Vivian, Civil Rights Activist and former aide to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gain valuable advice from some of FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” and Working Mother’s “100 Best Companies” including
Arnold Worldwide • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts • FleetBoston Financial • Harvard University • MIT • MITRE Corporation

A Motivational Speech and Book Signing by
Martha R. A. Fields

With a little help from friends, executives, celebrities, human resources professionals and ordinary people with good ol’ “street smarts,” Martha R. A. Fields has constructed a provocative and entertaining motivational speech that will help revitalize and energize even the most down on his or her luck person. By the end of this event, you will have developed a new outlook to recharge your life and rekindle your spirit. You’ll leave motivated with power tips and tools to prepare you for a lifetime of success.

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“ The future is bright for indispensable employees with thick skins, nerves of steel and fresh eyes. These new-age thinkers know how to translate vision into realities, rejoice in change and are masters at making people see the universe as their playground. They thrive on inspiring people to achieve their maximum potential and don’t hesitate to venture beyond the shores of their minds to tap uncharted oceans.”

~ Martha R.A. Fields Excerpted from: Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How To Keep Them.
Career Press, 2001.

Preview

Holding on to your best employees is more challenging than ever because they’re in such high demand. Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them., was written to help all organizations who must adapt to the new economy, but don’t quite know how. It will help them create strategies to hold on to their best workers, despite what their competitors are offering. It will assist organizations to surmount the new labor challenges and hire and retain the most competent, motivated, and diverse workforce possible.

The book offers best, interesting and radical practices with direct quotes from some of the nation’s top companies such as:
• Fidelity Investments Fleet Financial • the Four Seasons Hotel, Harvard University • the Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Partners Healthcare • Texas Instruments • Timberland and more.

Reviews

“An exceptional handbook with clarifying insight into the complexities of today’s competitive labor market.” – Marilyn Fuller, Texas Instruments

“…practical and insightful guidance into what it takes to retain talent…a definitive source on how to make your workplace irresistible.” – Alesia Wilson, Fidelity Investments

“I can see myself using the book effectively to impart the truth that organizations and best business practices are only as good as the employees who design and implement them.” – Mangalam Srinivasan, Harvard scholar, fellow and member of corporate boards

Book Contributors

Here are the large and small organizations featured in Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How To Keep Them. Career Press, 2001

* BostonCoach – a Fidelity Investments Company
* Butler Home Products, Inc.
* CISCO Systems
* Diversity, Inc.com
* Ezenia! Inc.
* Evergreen Investments
* Fidelity Investments
* Fitzgerald, Stevens and Ford
* Fleet Financial
* The Four Seasons Hotel - Boston
* Giga Information Group
* The Gillette Company
* Harvard University
* Lesley University
* The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* The National Black MBA Association
* The New England Aquarium
* Operation A.B.L.E of Greater Boston
* Partners HealthCare System
* The Partnership
* Sepracor
* State Street Corporation
* Texas Instruments
* Timberland
* Tufts Health Plan
* United States Army
* Unity First Direct, Inc.

Content

Attracting and retaining quality staff are keys to success in the 21st century. The answers lie not in increasing already high advertising budgets or hiring more costly search firms, but in repositioning what your organization is doing on the recruitment and retention fronts. In this book you will read:

* State-of-the-art information to help make strides finding and keeping highly skilled and motivated talent
* How diversity relates to recruitment and retention
* Best practice information on what premier organizations are doing to get and keep their top talent

Areas of Expertise

Building lasting relationships is important to us. We partner with our clients who know that thoughtful solutions, offering feedback, and best practice information are only a call or email away. Fields Associates Inc. offers the following services in four areas of expertise.

Love your work by Loving your Life initiatives (LWL²)

Retention and Recruitment of Indispensible Employees (R² of IEs)

Management, Executive, Employee Training, Development and Coaching

Diversity and Globalization programs

Consulting Services

Consulting services are offered in these areas:

Career Planning Services

Work/Life Programs

Communication and Presentation Skills

Diversity Business Plans, Strategy, and Program Implementation

Human Resource Management

Managing Across Generations

Management and Executive Coaching and Development

Retention and/or Recruitment Strategies and Programs

Strategic Planning and Goal Setting

Management Consulting

Bring us to your leaders! and start seeing "positive ripple effects"

We assist CEOs and executives to forge new visions. Ultimately, our collaborative client partnerships exceed expectations and prepare our client organizations for leadership in the 21st century.

We provide the necessary and comprehensive integrated services that support organizational growth and build upon individual success.

We successfully work with senior and middle management teams, boards and employees to enhance, support and develop their overall business strategies.

Through Fields Associates Executive Coaching, Executives enjoy total confidentiality as they expand their knowledge and skills.

Positive Ripple Effects

Today’s managers and employees exist in an ever-changing work world where time to plan is a rare commodity. Yet, for every action your management team takes, there is a reaction from your employees. This creates a positive or negative ripple effect that spreads throughout the organization.

Fields Associates partners with clients' management to create positive ripples towards:

* Optimal employee satisfaction
* Escalated productivity
* Expanded efficiency
* Maximized cost containment
* Heightened management credibility and effectiveness

Bring Fields Associates consulting and training services to your organization. Our consulting, training and coaching services are comprehensive, customized and geared to help your organization achieve stated goals, tie human resources to business strategies and provide the most effective learning in an optimal environment conducive to achievement.

Fields Associates Executive Coaching

Our personalized and confidential work with CEOs, presidents, board members, senior managers and project teams has assisted them in refocusing their strategic plans and directions, and setting measurable goals.

Fields Associates has helped them with:
change management
diversity
globalization issues
connecting human resources with business strategies
so that what is aimed for is attained.

Training Programs for Continuous Learning

No two organizations are ever alike. That’s why Fields Associates offers practical, custom-tailored seminars, both on and offsite, that maximize learning and allow participants, regardless of their level within the organization, to use the knowledge gained immediately.

Training That Works

Our programs are a cost-effective way to educate managers and ensure that everyone obtains the same knowledge base of information. Our multifaceted approaches range from custom-designed seminars for all levels of staff to executive and managerial coaching.

Focus Groups and Needs Assessments

Employees and customers are often the experts when it comes to answers about diversity programs, the pros and cons of organizational culture or what’s lacking in products or services. Unfortunately, they may be reluctant to be candid directly with you.

Fields Associates dynamic facilitators will help your employees and customers voice their concerns and suggestions in a non-threatening, comfortable environment. Then, we will analyze their feedback and report the findings and recommendations.

Young Professionals Forum (YPF)

Who is YPF for?

Dynamic, multicultural, entrepreneurial-spirited cross-industry professionals ranging from one to fifteen years of experience in the workplace.

What YPF Offers:
Innovative, welcoming, resourceful and accessible networking, mentor/mentee training and development opportunities, as well as advice on how to approach cross- generational working relationships and teamwork.

The YPF Advantage:

An environment that fosters community, shared learning and personal as well as professional advancement geared specifically towards the future workforce.

YPF Outreach:

This group attracts young professionals in small to large profit and non-profit organizations. It provides an avenue for them to meet people with similar interests and life and career challenges.

Sample YPF Events:

Focus groups, sound-off sessions, roundtable discussions, career enhancement seminars, panel/speaker/guest and even member presentations . . . all combined with networking and social activities.

Fields Associates Diversity Services

Needs Assessments/Audits

Focus Groups

Senior Management Briefings

Organizational Audits

Executive, Management and Employee Training

Diversity as a Business Imperative Briefing

Awareness Training

What to Do If You Make a Mistake

Managing a Diverse Workforce

The Business Case for Diversity

Strategic Diversity Planning

Diversity Action/Business Plans

Communication Initiatives

Human Resources Alignment

Policies, Procedures, and Systems

Recruitment, Compensation, Performance and Career Management

Mentorship Programs and Succession Planning

Balancing Work, Family, and Personal Life

Information Sessions

Services

Diversity Committees/Affinity Groups

Development

Events Planning

To be placed on our mailing list for information on these programs and when they occur, call us or send an e-mail to fieldsassociates@att.net.

Group Career Counseling

By learning more about yourself in a group setting, you can better choose your next career move. Group career counseling provides opportunities for networking, support and feedback to help you expand your career options. These sessions are offered at various times throughout the year.

To be placed on our mailing list for information on these programs and when they occur, email us.

Executive Women’s Leadership Activities

As women continue to shatter the corporate “glass ceiling”, they are finding it beneficial to come together to unwind, relax, have fun, support and learn from one another. Are you one of the ceiling-breaking women who has reached a senior level position? Programs include multi-cultural networking opportunities, designer fashion luncheons, book discussions, career and cultural enrichment activities.

To be placed on our mailing list for information on these programs and when they occur, call us or send an e-mail to EWLA@fieldsassociates.com.

So You Want to Be a Consultant?

Before taking the next step to become the CEO of your life, work and career destiny, we’ll teach you the good, bad and ugly of becoming a consultant and/or owning your own business. Hear how seasoned consultants moved from an internal position to setting up, and succeeding in, the world of consulting. Workshops are offered throughout the year.

To be placed on our mailing list for information on these programs and when they occur, email us.

Onsite Seminars

Fields Associate trainers will lead seminars at your facility or can host a program/series for you at one of our training centers throughout the world that is most accessible to you.

Our consultants will meet with you to evaluate your organization’s unique circumstances and priorities. From there, we will prepare the right delivery for your audience and adapt the training style, program duration and communication mediums to be aligned with your organizational culture.

Public seminars, selected popular seminars are offered to the general public, our client network and colleagues throughout the year. Our offering of on-site seminars include:

Communication and Presentation Skills

Diversity and Globalization

Human Resource Management – Recruitment and Retention (R²)

Love Your Work by Loving Your Life (LwL²)

Management and Executive Development

Project Management

Investment Schedule
Keynote Events and Facilitation	Other Services	Expenses

Diversity and Globalization
Making the Business Case for Diversity - Executive and Management Briefing
The Next Generation of Diversity: Are You Ready for the Challenge?
Understanding Differences: The XYZs of How to Become More Diverse
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Divesrity and Globalization KeyNote Series
Making the Business Case for Diversity Executive and Management Briefing
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Divesrity and Globalization KeyNote Series
The Next Generation of Diversity Issues: Are You Ready for the Challenge?
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Diversity and Globalization KeyNote Series
Understanding Differences: The XYZs of How to Become More Diverse?
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Welcome	Overview	Our Mission	Win/Win Philosophy
Values	Strategic Alliances	Corporate Cupiding


Keynote and Motivational Topics	How to Schedule
	Investment Schedule

	Up to 90 Minutes	Up to Three Hours	Up to Six Hours
State of Massachusetts	$7,500	$8,500	$10,000
Continental United States	$10,000	$11,000	$12,500
Non-Profit Rates	$5,000	$6,000	$7,500

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION (R²)
Indispensable Employees (IEs) How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them.
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HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION (R²)
Indispensable Employees (IEs) How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them.
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LOVE YOUR WORK BY LOVING YOUR LIFE (LwL²)
How To Be a corporate MVP (Most Valuable Player)
Love Your Work by Loving Your Life (LwL²)
ME, Inc.: Taking Control of Your Career
Managing Your Business Successfully and Staying Alive to Enjoy It
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Love Your Work by Loving Your Life (LwL²)
How to Be a cMVP (corporate Most Valuable Player)
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MANAGEMENT AND EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT Keynote Series
Managing Across the Generations: When MTV Meets AARP
The Role of a Leader: Acting More Like Geese and Less Like Buffalo
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Love your work by Loving your Life
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Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them
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Communication Skills Seminar Series
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Communications Skills Seminar Series
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Positive Results Communication (PRC)
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