Stephen Rice

Mr. Rice is president of PerforMAX, Inc., a multi-dimensional training and development company with an emphasis on maximizing employee potential. He also owns and runs three other companies in the marketing and promotions industry.  He has more than 25 years of experience as a professional trainer in organizations. Mr. Rice served as vice president/human resources at New Jersey Press, Inc., a diversified communications company with newspaper, television and radio properties, where he was responsible for all training and development programs and human resource functions for more than 1,800 employees. He has developed in excess of 100 training programs and has written four training manuals for a major training company. He taught at Monmouth University, Ocean County College and currently teaches at Brookdale Community College. He has written some 50 articles for magazines and trade publications. Mr. Rice previously served as president for the Newspaper Personnel Relations Association (the first Professional Emphasis Group of SHRM) and is a recent past chair of the Human Resource Certification Institute. He holds a BS degree from Monmouth University with a special emphasis on psychology.