Sargent: On-Track Podcast

The Workforce Advancement Team takes over the Flywheel Studio to discuss everything they have been working on over the course of 2024. Training, recruitment, mentorship, and a massive improvement in their efforts in the Mid-Atlantic and Piedmont Triad regions! Workforce Advancement Director Kevin Gordon, Workforce Development Manager Pete Parizo, Workforce Advancement Trainer Kendall Bickford, and Workforce Development Trainer Tim Powell break it all down in this episode of the On-Track Podcast. And don’t miss a special edition of the Price-Is-Right, where the winner and the profit-sharing bonus is revealed!

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Senior Foreman Jon Green, Human Resources Specialist Justin Embrey, and PCA Cody Collins visit the Flywheel Studio to discuss money management tools' impact on their financial lives. Specifically, Ramsey SmartDollar, a benefit Sargent offers to all employee-owners. Each shares how useful it’s been to help them keep track of their spending and their personal development of self-discipline – leading to financial freedom. President & COO Eric Ritchie and CFO & VP-Finanace Tasha Gardner also jump into the Flywheel Studio to ask a special edition Price-Is-Right question about the profit-sharing bonus! Don’t miss out on the chance to win DOUBLE the profit-sharing bonus, or if you get it to the penny, you’ll win TRIPLE!

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VP of HR Amanda Martin joins us in the Flywheel Studio to talk about important changes and additions to Sargent 2025 benefits. Chris Libby to talk about the new Employee Assistance Program – goodbye automated prompts! Afterward, Amanda has a conversation with Lisa Nappi, a Benefits Account Manager at USI, she helps us with all of our benefits carriers. Lisa’s job is to ensure that every employee-owner has what they need regarding benefits. Benefits may not be the most exciting topic, but it is essential information.

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President & COO Eric Ritchie and Vice President-Finance & CFO Tasha Gardner wrap up all National Employee Ownership Month celebrations and discuss how great of a year Sargent is having. There is a lot to celebrate being an employee-owner at Sargent! They also announce our last winner of Price-Is-Right AND who won $500 from the ESOP Photo Contest!

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Herb sits down with Glenn Adams, Sargent’s Director of Business Development, and Mark Adams, President, CEO, and Board Chair of Sebago Technics, another 100% employee-owned company. Sebago Technics specializes in site design and permitting services, guiding projects from initial conditions and design through permitting and construction. The conversation delves into the advantages of employee ownership, offering insights into how Sebago Technics’ ESOP model compares and contrasts with Sargent’s own employee ownership structure.

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President & COO Eric Ritchie and Vice President-Finance & CFO Tasha Gardner sit down in the Flywheel Studio with two gentlemen from Sargent’s ESOP valuation firm, Chartwell. Tim Lang and Sam Newcomb delve into the crucial topic of how Sargent employee-owners can directly affect the ESOP valuation. This is invaluable information for those who are invested in seeing the ESOP stock price rise at Sargent!

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President and COO Eric Ritchie is joined by Heavy Equipment Operator Brian Loiselle and Survey Foreman Josh Taylor in the Flywheel Studio to talk about their careers and what employee ownership means to them. Brain has worked at Sargent for over 30 years and Josh for almost 20 years. These two have had great careers and have plenty of wisdom to pass on, so don’t miss out!

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This episode takes you to the Southern Maine Regional Party, where employee-owners gathered to celebrate significant milestones and the great year Sargent is having. Don’t forget to stick around for the second Price-Is-Right question! Winners will be announced next week!

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CEO Herb Sargent, President and COO Eric Ritchie, and Mid-Atlantic VP of Operations Justin Porter sit down in the Flywheel Studio to discuss why this significant milestone is critical to share within and outside Sargent. If you’ve ever been curious about how the region has developed to where it is now, don’t miss this episode!

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President and COO Eric Ritchie is joined by Superintendents Keith Edgecomb and Jon Nadeau and Northern Maine Project Executive Brent Williams in the Flywheel Studio to discuss how their project went in Oakfield, Maine. The project had a tight window for a lot of work, and the guys fill us in on how they made it happen. Don’t miss this one!

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