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Steve Wood is President and CEO of Work Opportunities Unlimited, Inc. and Leddy Group. He joined the company as Vice President of Planning and Chief Financial Officer in 1996, and was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer in 2000. As Chief Executive Officer, Steve is responsible for management oversight of both Leddy Group and Work Opportunities Unlimited, and has direct responsibility for administrative operations in Dover, New Hampshire. During Steve’s tenure the Company has grown to a core team of 200 employees providing employment services in 250 communities in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Florida. It has a "Strategic Map" that guides its operations and which includes a mission statement, core values, and Vision 2015. It has leadership development and management training programs. It runs a popular new employee orientation program and has developed an on-line training curriculum. It is an "outcome-based" company where each employee is measured by the outcomes they achieve for their customers. Annually it serves over 3,000 people. In his earlier career, Steve spent seventeen years in the banking industry in Maine and New Hampshire. He began his career as a Branch Manager, and advanced to Commercial Loan Officer, Assistant Vice President and Senior Vice President and Senior Commercial Loan Officer. In addition to his commercial lending experience, he served in senior positions on banks’ Loan, Personnel, Safety, Community Reinvestment Act, and Asset-Liability Committees. He also taught courses for the American Institute of Banking. For the five years prior to joining Work Opportunities Unlimited-Leddy Group, Steve launched and grew a consulting practice serving a wide range of businesses in Northern New England. His practice specialized in strategic planning, implementation, and tracking; managing organizational change; human resource development; safety management; and financial management, which included cash flow, debt and bank negotiations, and cost accounting. Steve has been a member of the Adjunct Faculty team at Southern New Hampshire University since 1994. He teaches Organizational Leadership in the Graduate School and Strategic Management, Organizational Leadership, Managing Organizational Change, Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management, and Finance at the undergraduate level. He teaches primarily at the Portsmouth Campus, where he was recognized recently as Teacher of the Year. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maine in 1975, where he was a member of the Senior Skull Society, and his Masters in Business Administration from Northeastern University in 1987. He also graduated from the Williams School of Banking. Steve has been involved in dozens of community and charitable organizations.

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Susannah Chance is Vice President of Human Resources of Work Opportunities Unlimited, Inc. and Leddy Group. She joined the company as a Resource Specialist in the Laconia Leddy Group office and was promoted to Regional Vice President of the Dover, NH Leddy Group market, before being promoted to her current position. As Vice President of Human Resources Susannah is responsible for overseeing the human resource function for both Leddy Group and Work Opportunities Unlimited, including legal compliance for the company’s operations in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Florida. She also leads and delivers the Company’s management and supervisory training programs. In addition to her responsibilities to the company, Susannah also provides consulting and training services to businesses and organizations throughout New England. While serving a wide variety of industries, ranging from banks to sales organizations to motorcycle dealerships to heavy industry; she also has served towns and municipalities. The breadth of her services include supervisory training, harassment training and investigations, compliance reviews, employee handbook preparation and updates, climate surveys, salary surveys, and assistance with the management of workers’ compensation claims. Susannah began her career during graduate school as the Program Coordinator of a small biotechnology firm that provided scientific training at locations throughout the United States and Europe. Upon moving to New England, she began her career with Work Opportunities Unlimited and Leddy Group. She received her undergraduate degree from Iowa State University in 1989 and her Masters in Business Administration Iowa State in 1992. Susannah has also earned Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification from the HR Certification Institute of the Society for Human Resource Management. Susannah is currently the Vice Chair of the New Hampshire Business & Industry Association’s Human Resources Committee and is a member of the NH Workers’ Compensation Classification and Rating Appeals Board. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the University of New Hampshire’s Division of Continuing Education and teaches day seminars on Interviewing and Orienting and Training Employees. Susannah is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Humane Society.

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Cora Quisumbing-King is Vice President, Consulting Services for Leddy Group. She joined the firm in 2007. Her academic background (a PhD from the University of Chicago where she was a Fulbright-Hays scholar from the Philippines) has been enriched by a variety of industry experience in the Philippines and the United States. Cora’s primary focus is organizational, leadership, and management development which includes, but is not limited to, the design and facilitation of senior management meetings; team building, training, cross-functional project team consulting; performance management, succession planning, and work engagement programs. Cora’s professional experience includes serving in progressively responsible positions such as Vice President & Manager, Learning and Leadership, Banco Popular North America; Senior Manager, Leadership & Staff Development, Center for Continuous Learning, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Associate Director, Amoco Management Learning Center, Amoco Corporation; and Director of Management Development, Commercial Markets SBU, Liberty Mutual, Boston. At Banco Popular, Cora re-established the training function. She also facilitated senior management and department sessions that focused on talent management, vision engagement, closing the gap on goals, engagement survey results, a department leadership transition, and a management team role clarification. At the Federal Reserve Bank, Cora established a broad-based function, leveraging the initial focus on core competencies to incorporate leadership and management development, organizational consulting, and technology training for the 7th district of the Federal Reserve System. She was awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence for leadership in managing the Center for Continuous Learning. In addition, Cora designed the new officer orientation; served on a succession planning task force; set the overall direction of the Workplace Engagement Program; and led the design of the pipeline development process to accelerate development of a select group of high potential employees for leadership positions. At Amoco, Cora directed the design, development, delivery, and assessment of the Renewal Series, a highly benchmarked initiative created to strengthen strategic alignment through leadership development of the top 3,500 managers of the corporation. Together with the AMLC Team, she received Amoco’s highest team award--the Amoco Human Resources Team Recognition Award. Cora also delivered training that covered these topics: cultural analysis, systems thinking methodology for analyzing issues and identifying critical interventions, organizational learning, organization design models, strategic management process. She coached management teams addressing key business issues during their week at the AMLC and refined the infrastructure of the coaches’ network to ensure effective selection and communication. Cora held several positions at Liberty Mutual. Starting as a Training & Development Consultant, she managed the development and production of the company’s orientation program for new employees and co-managed the adaptation and rollout of a company-wide career development program. As a Senior Consultant, Organization & Management Development, Cora provided program leadership, internal consulting, and internal process management expertise and was awarded the High Performer Bonus for overall high achievement in key responsibilities. She also served as Project Leader for the Advanced Management Program (AMP), an intensive, project-based and action-oriented development program for middle and upper-level high potential managers. During her role as Director of Management Development, Cora focused on one SBU, providing consulting services to client departments and cross-functional teams charged with resolving key business issues to exceed performance standards and increase market share. Results included re-engineering of market operations, particularly the redesign of key business processes and restructuring of field operations. She managed the implementation of the management development process, including the introduction of leadership competencies, building on a predecessor’s work. She was awarded the Significant Achievement Award for building a leadership and management development function for the Commercial Markets. Cora was also associated with the National Opinion Research Center in Chicago as Project Services Supervisor and Assistant Survey Director, and with Cambridge College in Massachusetts as Special Assistant for Institutional Research. In the Philippines, Cora worked for Service Systems International, Inc, where she, as Assistant Operations Manager, directed the selection, processing, orientation, and dispatch of contract workers to Saudi Arabia; participated in the selection of site managers for critical locations in Saudi Arabia; and implemented departmental restructuring to create process efficiencies. She received a bonus award for exemplary management of the operations. Additionally, she was connected with Maryknoll (now Miriam) College Graduate School as Instructor, Research Methods; with the Ateneo de Manila University, Psychology Department as Group Dynamics Facilitator; with the Institute of Philippine Culture as Research Associate for a USAid funded study; and with St. Theresa’s College as Psychometrician and Instructor, psychology and sociology courses. Cora’s formal education includes: PhD, Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Chicago, Fulbright-Hays Scholar; Graduate Studies, Social Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, Department Scholar; AB, Behavioral Sciences, Summa cum Laude, St. Theresa’s College, Cebu City, Philippines, College Scholar; Teresa de Avila Award (for consistent scholarship and leadership).