Senior Training Staff
Karen Pierce
Karen has worked in the alcohol/drug profession for over 25 years and has devoted the past 16 years of her career to drug-free workplace issues. She received an undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University in Child and Family Development and Masters’ degrees in Social Work & Public Policy & Management from The Ohio State University.
She began her career as a chemical dependency counselor in an outpatient clinic in Coshocton, Ohio and specialized in issues surrounding adolescent females and drinking and driving. While in Coshocton she also became involved in numerous prevention activities including Teenage Institute, and created a summer recreation program for the young children in the community.
Upon moving to Columbus, Karen served as the Director of Adult Services at CompDrug and administered the award-winning HOPE Hotline. She also served as a consultant to the Ohio Credentialing Board for Chemical Dependency Professionals, where she facilitated a work-group to develop and market alcohol/drug prevention credentials for the State of Ohio.
Karen received the “Administrative Support Award” from the Alcohol/Drug Abuse Prevention Association of Ohio for her involvement in that credentialing project and was also awarded the Excellence in Prevention Award (Marketing category) from that same association.
Currently Karen serves as senior consultant/trainer for Working Partners® and she is also actively involved in coordinating the company’s training department. Pierce is a mother of two girls and is an active volunteer in her daughters’ school and in her church.
Jim Ryan
Jim Ryan is an Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist II with 25 years experience in alcohol and other drug abuse prevention. He began his drug free workplace experience as a program administrator for a non-profit corporation in the early '90s, and has been a trainer with Working Partners® since 2000. His professional experience as a consultant and trainer includes work with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Youth to Youth International, the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Association of Ohio, the Franklin County Safe and Drug Free Schools Consortium, and various school systems, businesses and other organizations. Jim was honored with the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Association of Ohio Award for Excellence in Advocacy in 1996; a statewide honor for his work in prevention training and consultation.
Jim was raised in small business: His family owns a small chain of pizza restaurants based in the Columbus area. He also has an extensive history of community service and has received numerous accolades for his volunteer work, including the 1992 HOPE Hotline Volunteer of the Year award and the 2001 Columbus Dispatch Community Service Award. In 2005, The Ohio State University Alumni Association bestowed Jim with the Ralph Davenport Mershon Award for service to the university for co-founding and serving as the first president of The Ohio State University Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni Society. He is also a 20-year volunteer with Franklin County Children Services, where he has served as a friend and mentor to children under the agency's care and either chaired or vice-chaired the agency’s Volunteer Services Advisory Committee for 15 years. Jim received Franklin County Children Services’ Outstanding Advisory Committee Member award in 2006.
Jim has a B.A. in English from The Ohio State University and also has professional background as a writer, including previous work as a newspaper editor and publisher.
Allison Sharer
Allison Sharer is an Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist II who has worked in the field of alcohol and other drug abuse prevention for over 20 years. She graduated from the Ohio State University with a Bachelor's degree in Communication and got her start in the field working with Youth to Youth, a drug-free peer leadership program.
Since then, Allison has worked in a variety of capacities. She has developed and presented workshops, training and other education opportunities for a wide variety of audiences including parents, college students, community groups and human service providers. She has been a dedicated advocate for alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and has held leadership positions at the international, state and local levels. She was past-chair of the Prevention Committee of the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium, on a state level served as trustee of the Ohio Credentialing Board for Chemical Dependency Professionals. In addition, Allison has served in leadership positions with the Ohio Alcohol and Drug Prevention Workforce Development Taskforce and the Ohio Teen Institute. Her involvement with these organizations has helped shape policies that affect our systems of care and the communities in which prevention practitioners serve.
Allison is the past president of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Association of Ohio (ADAPAO) and was selected as the recipient of the Association’s annual award for excellence in training.
Scott Camp
Scott Camp has been a part of the full-time staff of Working Partners® for nearly 5 years in the role of Program Consultant. In that position he is responsible for a variety of tasks -- encompassing everything from client care to marketing. Scott’s day-to-day client troubleshooting experiences enable him to bring an in-depth and practical understanding of drug-free operations into the classroom. Scott also does client education in the field and routinely speaks to various organizations on drug-free workplace issues.
Originally from Amherst, Ohio, Scott is a graduate of Kent State University with a Bachelor’s degree in English education. He started his professional career as a high school English teacher in southern Ohio and moved into the business sector in 1989.
In his leisure time, Scott enjoys reading and spending time with his growing family ... a wife and three boys ranging in age from four years old to twin 17 year olds.
Regina Bond
Regina Bond is a trainer with Working Partners®, joining the company in 2008. In this role, Regina delivers employee education and supervisor training to clients both at their company locations and in the Working Partners® classroom. Prior to assuming her role with Working Partners®, Regina worked over 29 years with Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company. Her progressively increasing responsibilities centered around client/customer relationship management, coaching teams and individuals through performance improvement consulting, and recruiting executive leaders and entrepreneurs for agency ownership opportunities.
Regina also served as an activity therapist for VOCA, a residential facility for adults with mental health and retardation disabilities; Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital, Geriatric Unit; and the Alvis House, a halfway house for Ex-Offenders.
She holds an Associate of Applied Science degree in Mental Health and Retardation from Columbus State Community College and a Bachelor of Science, Global Management and Communication degree from Wilberforce University.
Other interests and activities include serving as Vice President of the women’s fellowship in her church, meeting facilitator for the 2008 Ohio Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs’ Annual Retreat, and a Substitute Teacher for Columbus City Schools. Regina is married and the mother of two sons.
Diana Santos
Diana is a specialist in Spanish-language drug-free workplace (DFWP) training and the primary translator of Working Partners® documents and manuals from English to Spanish. She is co-founder of the Hispanic Outreach Ministry, Lily of the Valley Church in Columbus, Ohio and an agent of the Federal H2-B program. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the School of Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas. Diana has been a trainer with Working Partners® since the start of the Spanish language program in 2003.