Moving Past HR As Compliance Cop

In this interactive program, The Honorable Susan Leeson and SHRM author/speaker and HR Magazine writer Jathan Janove will explore the connection between employee engagement and employment litigation, why good management, strong HR and partnership between the two is more necessary and relevant than ever, and what needs to change for HR to become a true business partner and organization helpmate. Jathan and Susan will address the following questions:

• What do the current trends in employment cases tell us about organization dysfunction and the U.S. legal system?
• What’s a three-step process to transition HR from “Compliance Cop” to “Compliance Coach”?
• How do you convert workplace conflict into something organizationally helpful vs. legal system supportive?
• How to manage your employees to develop an engaged and healthy workgroup?

Time:
Registration/Breakfast: 8am
Program: 8:30am – 10:30am

About the Speakers:

Susan M. Leeson served on the Oregon Supreme Court and on the Oregon Court of Appeals. She now mediates and arbitrates civil cases, and consults on complex appeals. She is listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” in the specialty of Alternative Dispute Resolution. She received the Sid Lezak Award for Mediation Excellence in 2013 and the Robert Peckham Award for Excellence in ADR in 2012. She was the staff mediator at the Oregon Federal District Court five years and on the faculty at Willamette University for many years before joining the Court of Appeals. She has taught dispute resolution at several colleges and conducts mediator trainings. She was a Judicial Fellow at the United States Supreme Court in the office of Chief Justice Warren Burger; and a clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Leeson has co-authored texts on dispute resolution and constitutional law, and published many articles on law and political theory. She lectures and writes for the Center for Civic Education and for the Robert Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier. Leeson earned her Ph.D. in Government at Claremont Graduate School and her J.D. at Willamette College of Law.

Jathan Janove’s passion and professional focus is helping organizations develop the human potential within them. Depending on the client’s need, he provides organization consulting, executive coaching, strategic planning, and leadership development training. In his work, Jathan draws lessons from his 25 years litigating the remains of workplace relationships that began win-win and ended toxic lose-lose. However, the objective is greater than avoiding such misery; itx’s to create fully engaged working environments that maximize employee potential.

Jathan is an internationally published author, his work includes Managing To Stay Out Of Court: How To Avoid The 8 Deadly Sins Of Mismanagement, (Berrett-Koehler Publishers & SHRM Publishing), which Dr. Stephen R. Covey described as “Marvelous! Every manager will benefit immensely,” and which Richard Drezen of the Washington Post described as “an extraordinarily useful book for managers and workers.” He is also author of The Star Profile: A Management Tool To Unleash Employee Potential, (Davies-Black Publishing), Gold Medal Winner–Business at Book Expo America 2009.