Anna-Marie Sparks is well known in the Concord business community with more than 20 years in the employment and staffing industry. She began as a temporary employee and rose to branch manager of an international staffing firm before becoming president of Sparks Employment Group. She knows the business from the bottom up and treats both employees and clients with the utmost respect.

Anna-Marie specializes in matching qualified employees with top quality employers. With a no-nonsense approach to saving companies time and money, she helps job seekers find the job opportunities that are right for them.

She is a member of the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, where she is on the Ambassador Committee and serves on many other committees. She is in SHRM and in the Human Resources Association of Greater Concord and has served as a Board Member. She also served on the Granite State HRC Committee. She is a tireless volunteer.

Sparks Employment Group was named the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year for 2007. Anna-Marie recently graduated from the 2007 Leadership Greater Concord Program and was recently named to the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce board of directors. She is also a member of the New England/New Hampshire Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Board of Directors. She is a member of the Greater Laconia-Weirs Beach Chamber of Commerce.

Bernie Sparks, founder and executive director of Sparks Employment Group, has more than three decades of supervisory, management, and leadership experience in the U.S. Army 10th Special Forces Group (ABN), the New Hampshire State Police, and the University of New Hampshire Police Department. Bernie is also president of 21st Century Leadership LLC, a workplace issues consulting and training company.

Bernie received his master's degree in Public Administration with a specialty in Public Human Resource Management from the University of New Hampshire in 2003. He holds undergraduate degrees in criminal justice and accounting from St. Anselm's College and Franklin Pierce College. Bernie was selected as a member of the first cohort in the new Doctorate of Arts in Transformational Leadership at Franklin Pierce University. His studies focus on creative leadership, progressive human resources techniques, ethics and organizational planning in the 21st century.

Bernie is an adjunct faculty member of Southern New Hampshire University teaching in the Forensic Accounting program. He is a member of the Business Advisory Board for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation (CESI). He is a certified facilitator for the Kaufman Institute's Fasttrac program in New Ventures and Growth Ventures entrepreneurship training courses. He is an adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce University, teaching various courses in the MBA in Leadership program along with undergraduate courses. He also is adjunct faculty at Granite State College and Hesser College where he teaches classes ranging from oral communications to criminal investigations to security management.

Bernie is a member of the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Laconia-Weirs Beach Chamber of Commerce and the Pi Sigma Alpha honor society for MPA graduates.