Shannon Teixeira with Waste Management and Kathleen Gramzay with Kinessage
Waste Management is the largest environmental solutions provider in North America, serving more than 21 million customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. They have invested in developing waste solutions for a changing world. Today, this includes not just disposal and recycling, but personal counseling to help customers achieve their green goals, including zero waste.
As North America’s leading provider of comprehensive waste management services, their mission is to maximize resource value while minimizing impact in order to further both economic and environmental sustainability for all their stakeholders.
Shannon Teixeira is a designer, architect and builder of Modern HR. Working inside startups and large enterprises has taught her that her breath is Progression, her heartbeat is People and her sight is connecting the space between ideas and reality. Fusing together her background in Interior Design, Operations, Marketing and HR has given her a creative lens and ability to use Employee Experience and Brand Culture to create Organizational Competitiveness.
Today she leads the People strategy for one of Waste Management’s leading market areas, she is SHRM of Greater Phoenix’s Immediate Past President and is Co-Founder of AZ Talent Cooperative.
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Kathleen Gramzay, BCTMB, is a 17-year Board Certified Massage Therapist, Author, Speaker, Wellness Educator, Developer and Continuing Education Provider of Kinessage® Self-Care. Her life-long passion for movement, understanding the human body, and personal challenges created the conditions that brought Kinessage® into being.
Kathleen has an engaging knack for simplifying and sharing how the body/mind works and how you can partner with it, not just for greater physical health but to a live a more joyful life. Her interactive “Lessons from the Body/Mind” speaking presentations serve as a unique platform for stress relief and experiential team building across the spectrum of industries from architectural and financial services to healthcare, sales, and manufacturing.
Not surprisingly, for fun, she loves to move whether that is dancing or out in nature hiking, biking, or rollerblading. She also enjoys travel, nature photography, and meditation.
Kinessage LLC serves wellness-conscious companies and individuals who understand that people cannot be productive or present with clients, colleagues or loved ones if they are in pain or can’t move comfortably in their bodies. Kinessage® Self-Care is a do-it-yourself solution to relieve the stress, muscular pain, and chronic tension underlying musculoskeletal conditions without drugs or need of a practitioner.