How time flies! Whitman’s six-month leadership program that provided self-empowerment and leadership development to our staff has officially concluded.
Hosted by Alyson DeMaso, founder of Raising Beauty LLC, this program provided an opportunity to cultivate great leadership and personal well-being through multiple interactive and informative workshops, offered both in-person and remotely to our staff for optimal flexibility.
Here’s what some of our staff had to say about the program:
“I was thrilled to see and hear all the positivity throughout the company from our journey through the Raising Beauty program. We were provided with many tools to help us all with our personal and professional growth. We are seeing the tools being used first-hand, which will undoubtedly continue to make us a better company.” -David Case, President
“The program overall brought co-workers together and allowed them to share information that may otherwise have been private allowing us to know and understand our fellow co-workers.” -Anthony Gurka, Project Engineer
“For me personally, the program helped me get unstuck in my professional and personal lives. The Leading with Awareness session was my favorite.” -Michael Wellet, CEO
“My biggest takeaway from The Raising Beauty program was identifying my core strengths and connecting how those traits define the way I show up every day, both professionally and personally.” -Hayley Williams, Senior Engineer
“I feel the Raising Beauty program provided very useful insight on understanding our colleagues while also helping to center myself to keep things in perspective. Another take-away is to realize that others think differently and can go about a different path to a solution. The program was a success based on the many great ideas that came out of it at the end that we plan on implementing ASAP.” -Eddie Alonso, Senior Vice President of Engineering
“I really liked that the program was not only oriented towards how we can improve professionally, but personally as well. Learning our strengths and how to utilize them both in and out of work was very eye-opening!” -Natalie Bastos, Administrative Assistant
“For me this helped me on the personal side more that the business side. There really wasn’t any one session that stood out, for me it was the overall scope of what she went through with us. What I did take from it and Alyson was very instrumental about making me realize I can’t get stressed out over situations I have no control of. This I have been applying and it’s helped a great deal.” -Tony Graziano, Project Engineer
“I enjoyed our Raising Beauty sessions, they made me take a deeper look at myself. My main takeaways were, to realize other people have a point of view and to practice the pause before reacting.” -Diane Scalzo, Head Bookkeeper
“My takeaway from the Raising Beauty program was how engineer’s interact with their team, clients and others is more important than their technical knowledge. I found that the leading joy session was important, a leader having a positive attitude has a huge effect on the team and their performance. The leader’s positive attitude will get passed down to their team, a team with a good outlook can do anything.” -Jeffrey Thoens, Director of Engineering
“I am now more capable of understanding the varying ranges of emotions and how they could effect a person that I may be talking to.” -Carey Ruetsch, Vice President of Renewables
Finally, Whitman would like to extend our utmost gratitude to Alyson for hosting such a powerful and meaningful program! Your time and dedication to our company will live on in the lessons each and every one of us learned throughout this experience.
For more information on Raising Beauty and the different services Alyson provides, please visit www.raisingbeauty.com.
Posted on January 11th, 2023
