Several local business leaders have received awards from the Connecticut Small Business Administration and will be honored at a celebration in May. These awards recognize small businesses in each state that have met certain criteria in categories such as job growth, a steady increase in annual sales, innovation and commitment to community.
Margaret “Peg” Sheahan of Mitchell & Sheahan in Stratford, CT has been selected as the United States Small Business Administration's 2011 Connecticut's Women in Business Champion of the Year.
Ms. Sheahan provides legal advice and representation to both private and public sector employers in all aspects of their workforce relationships. She gives counsel aimed at preventing the kinds of employer-employee conflicts that lead to litigation or support union organizing efforts. Her lodestar is to insure that her business clients’ employee relations policies and practices comply with all regulatory and other legal requirements, reflect the “best practices” of the employee relations field and give effect to the client’s business goals.
Professionally, Peg is a member of the Labor and Employment and General Practice Sections of the American Bar Association; the Labor and Employment, Civil Litigation and Federal Litigation Sections of the Connecticut Bar Association; the Labor and Employment Committee of the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association, of which she is a former chair; the Fairfield County Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She has been rated “AV” by the Martindale-Hubble legal reference service and was given the status of Connecticut “Super Lawyer” in 2006 through 2011.
Peg has been a member of the award-winning workforce improvement board, The Workplace, Inc., since 2000, and serves on its Executive and Bylaws and Planning Committees. She also serves on the board of directors of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, and was twice honored as the BRBC’s “Volunteer of the Year.” Ms. Sheahan has also served on the board of directors of the Stamford Shelter for the Homeless and is an active volunteer for the Center for Women and Families of Eastern Fairfield County, a domestic violence and sexual assault focused agency. This affiliation earned her a United Way’s “Community Builder” award.
She is vice chair of the board of directors of the Women’s Business Development Council, an entrepreneurial educational organization. For more information please visit www.ctwbdc.org or call 203-353-1750.
