21st Century Leadership LLC was formed to provide premier training and consulting services focused on today's workplace related issues. All of our workplace consultants and trainers are experts in their field.

Our New Hampshire workplace trainings include leadership training, communications training, and drug and violence prevention training. All trainings are interactive and designed to be both fun and informative to help maximize learning.

Bernie Sparks, founder and president of 21st Century Leadership LLC, has 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 executive director of Sparks Employment Group LLC, a comprehensive employment services 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.

He is an adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce University, teaching various courses in the MBA in Leadership program. He is also adjunct faculty at Granite State College and Hesser College where he teaches classes ranging from communications skills for managers to human relations to criminal investigations to security management. Bernie is a member of the Concord Chamber of Commerce and the Pi Sigma Alpha honor society for MPA graduates.