Lessons Learned: RFW Business Panel
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This panel features representatives from four diverse businesses to help show participants how RFW can be implemented in a variety of settings. Focusing especially on policies, practices, and frequently asked questions, this panel will leave viewers with a better understanding of how to build and implement their own Recovery Friendly Workplace.
The panelists will discuss the following:
What prompted them to join RFW
What their RFW journey has been like, including who provided guidance as they established their Recovery Friendly culture, any barriers they encountered (for example, legal or not getting support from all employees, etc.), and how they overcame them
What process or policies are in place to respond to an employee who is impacted, directly or indirectly, by substance use disorder
How they adapted in light of Covid-19 to continue to provide support to those impacted by substance use disorder
Some of the positive outcomes they've seen since becoming an RFW
Q&A
Mark Bonta
Plant Director
Genfoot America, LLC / Kamik Outdoor Footwear
Mark brings 28 years of manufacturing experience to the State of New Hampshire Advisory Council of the Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative. He moved to New Hampshire in 1994, where he raised his two children and worked his way up in Genfoot’s factory to it’s top position within his first 10 years. He now manages 100 employees in two Littleton locations, and strives to help his employees meet their personal goals as well as Genfoot’s business goals. Mark also serves as the Secretary of the Kamik 5K charitable organization, and on the Board of Directors of North Country Health Consortium/North Country Public Health Advisory Council
Borja Alvarez de Toledo
President and CEO
Waypoint
Borja Alvarez de Toledo, M.Ed., President and CEO of Waypoint (formerly Child and
Family Services of New Hampshire) since December 2013, started working in Intensive
Home Based programs 30 years ago. Originally from Spain where he developed a private
practice in individual, family and couples therapy, and was an adjunct professor at The
University of Comillas, he moved to the US in 1998 to work at The Guidance Center in
Cambridge. He was hired as a Director of an Intensive Home Based program and was
promoted to various management positions, most recently serving as the Vice President of
Operations. In 2010 The Guidance Center merged with Riverside Community Care and
Borja was promoted to oversee a newly created Division of Child and Family Services. In
2013, after a three month nationwide search, Waypoint offered Borja the position of
President and CEO.
In his current position he is responsible to advance the public profile and advocacy efforts
of Waypoint by developing innovative approaches and building productive partnerships
with government, regional and national constituencies. He has focused significant efforts
and resources in coordination and integration of services and models, both inside his own
organization as well as with other organizations. In this role he is responsible for all
aspects of financial planning, sustainability and oversight of Waypoint’s assets.
Borja Alvarez de Toledo has a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of
Comillas in Madrid, a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Boston University and a
Graduate Certificate of Business from The University of Massachusetts.
Dana Lariviere
Founder, President and CEO
Chameleon Group
As founder and CEO, Dana Lariviere provides a wealth of experience from a career in sales and business development that has spanned more than 30 years. He has managed worldwide sales and sales channel operations for companies such as Aprisma Management Technologies, Digital Networks and Cabletron Systems. He has experience at levels in senior executive sales and operational positions in the North America and EMEA markets. This combination of both direct and indirect sales channels for hardware, software and services, as well as his demonstrated expertise in all facets of sales operations, brings a distinct and unique advantage to our customers at Chameleon Group.
Dana and the team at Chameleon Group have been leaders working in the Recovery Community and have been featured on the NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, in the Wall Street Journal, NH Public Radio and other media outlets. Dana has spoken nationally on Recovery and Mental Health in the workplace and serves on NH Governor Chris Sununu’s Recovery Friendly Workplace Commission.
Chameleon Group has been designated as a NH Recovery Friendly Workplace and a Dover Mental Health Friendly Work “Place”.
Emmett Soldati
Owner and Founder
Teatotaller
Born (1988) and raised in Somersworth, NH, Emmett Soldati graduated from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY; attended Emerson College; and graduated from York University, Toronto (summa cum laude), before receiving his Masters in Cultural Studies from London School of Economics (2011).
Returning home in 2011, Soldati opened Teatotaller; while also working for an international weather data company, Weather Analytics, now Athenium Analytics, a DC-based firm with a large work force in Dover. As an off-shoot of that, Soldati also works for an international nonprofit, Farmers First Africa, to support climate knowledge and food security for subsistence farmers.
He is the son of Lincoln Soldati, former: Strafford County Attorney, Mayor of Somersworth and candidate for US Congress; and Kathleen Soldati, former: Executive Director of League of NH Craftsmen and Portsmouth Historical Society, Director of Marketing at The Music Hall, now with CrossCurrent Communications.