Kawasaki Support of Refugees and Immigrants

Nov 04, 2022

Jason Hellbusch and Bryan Seck

Topic: Lincoln South Rotary Club Meeting 2022_1104
Time: Nov 4, 2022 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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BIOS

Jason Hellbusch

Jason serves as the Corporate Director of Administration at Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., U.S.A. He has over 20 years experience at Kawasaki leading areas including, Quality, HR, IT, Safety/Wellness and more.

Jason joined Kawasaki as a Quality Engineer and is passionate about the quality of our products and the careers that the company provides to the over 2,500 team members in Lincoln. In Lincoln,

Kawasaki produces passenger rail cars for the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority, ATS, side-by-sides, JetSkis, and aerospace components. In addition, Kawasaki has two plants in Missouri, with over 1,300 team members combined, that produce General Purpose Engines for the lawn and garden industry.

Bryan Seck

Bryan serves as the new Executive Director of Lincoln Literacy.

He served in the Peace Corps in Kazakhstan as an English teacher and also taught immigrants and refugees in Washington DC and in New York City. In New York, he even got to teach in same room as Eleanor Roosevelt!

Bryan received his Masters of Public Administration Degree from New York University and evaluated federal youth suicide prevention and childhood traumatic stress grants while at ICF International.

During a site visit to Nebraska, he met his now wife, Janell Walther, and moved to Nebraska in 2011. Since then, Bryan launched the College Possible nonprofit program in Omaha, led the homeless student outreach program for Lincoln Public Schools, and served as the Director of Workforce Development for the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development. With LPED, where he worked to link people from part-time jobs to full-time careers and participated in Prosper Lincoln.

He previously served as the Chief Talent Management Strategist with Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing where he led recruitment and retention efforts for almost 4,000 employees. He serves on multiple nonprofit boards and community initiatives including the Homeless Coalition, the Greater Lincoln Workforce Development Board, Tabitha Health, and the New Americans Task Force. He also delivers beds to formally homeless families through Spreetail's New Beginnings program.