Mr. Fishman chairs the 20-member Workplace Law Group at Bodman PLC. Mr. Fishman has more than 40 years of experience in all facets of labor and employment law, representing management exclusively. He served as a trial attorney with the Pittsburgh Region of the NLRB, was associated with a large Chicago law firm’s labor and employment practice group, was in-house labor counsel to a Detroit-based Fortune 500 manufacturing business, and headed up his own labor and employment boutique law firm, The Fishman Group, with clients throughout the country. Mr. Fishman is a frequent speaker to management groups, such as the Society for Human Resource Management, various health care and construction trade associations, and the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, on finding creative, business-oriented solutions to workplace legal problems. He writes a regular column for the Michigan Chamber’s business magazine, Michigan Forward, on emerging workplace law issues. Mr. Fishman is listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2013 under Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, and Litigation-Labor & Employment. He is listed as a 2012 Top Lawyer by DBusiness magazine and is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

 

Mark is the practice leader for IOR’s consulting services in global talent management. He works extensively with business executives and corporate teams on global leadership development and talent management projects. Over the past 18 years, he has designed and facilitated leadership development and talent management solutions for leading companies throughout the world on 4 different continents. He is presently working with global companies on cultural integration projects that involve mergers and change management. Mark has broad, global experience working with professionals from over 50 different countries across a diverse range of industries. Mark also coaches leaders and managers, helping them develop a global mindset and strengthen intercultural competence. He is licensed to deliver and interpret a variety of assessment instruments useful for global talent identification and development.

As President of PeopleClues, Julie is responsible for leading the organization to meet global objectives. During the past 21 years, Julie has become a nationally respected authority on practical business applications of assessment technologies. As a high-level manager in a $5 billion, 160-branch division of a Fortune 100 company, Julie gained a perspective on the complex workings of a major corporation. She then ventured into the challenging world of high tech entrepreneurs as the CFO of a $4 million start up computer-solutions company. Julie is the co-developer of several employment assessment products used by thousands of clients globally. These assessments are used for measuring job fit, attitude and level of engagement of candidates and employees. These assessments are built for pre-employment screening, career development, team development as well as training and development. Julie was recently successful leading our international team of Psychologists through a 3-year rigorous review and awarded an industry-coveted certification from the British Psychological Society for the PeopleClues Assessments. To end-user clients, this test registration gives peace of mind through the knowledge that the assessments they are using have been built to quality standards and have received an internationally recognized “seal of approval”. Julie holds a bachelors degree in Finance from the University of West Georgia with a secondary emphasis on Business Information Systems. As a Fellow of the Workforce Stability Institute, she has written a chapter of their flagship book, How to Attract, Optimize and Hold your Best Employees and is busy collaborating with other authors on a new book called “Women Who Mean Business” to be published in early 2012. Julie is also a member of the prestigious Women’s President’s Organization, a non-profit organization of presidents and CEOs of multimillion-dollar businesses. Julie is currently focused on designing and promoting programs for improving the “Candidate Experience” and promoting best practices to encourage and assist companies in becoming a “Candidate Champion”.

Glen  E. Kraemer, a founding and managing partner of the employment law boutique firm Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP, is nationally recognized for his “best practices” training programs relating to workplace harassment, bullying, violence prevention, and investigations.  From 2005 – 2021 Glen has been voted a California employment “Super Lawyer,” and in 2020 and 2021 ranked by Chambers USA as a top Labor & Employment Law attorney.  Named by Lawdragon as one of 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers, he has also received the “Elite Boutique Trailblazer” award from the National Law Journal, and garnered “Top Speaker” recognition for each of his SHRM Annual Conference presentations from 2009 - 2019.

Michael S. Cohen is a partner in Duane Morris’ Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group.  Michael concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law training and counseling. He has trained and counseled employers throughout the country on subjects including harassment prevention; diversity, equity and inclusion; combatting implicit bias; performance management; discipline and discharge; hiring and recruiting practices; performance evaluations; FMLA, ADA and FLSA compliance; leave of absence policies; LGBTQ+ issues in the workplace; substance abuse testing; workplace violence; records retention; conducting background checks; and more. Michael also has conducted investigations into claims of harassment and discrimination and has drafted employee handbooks, employment agreements, non-compete agreements and post-termination agreements. Michael regularly conducts in excess of 200 trainings each year.  He has represented clients throughout the country in EEO and other administrative proceedings.

Michael has been cited as a national authority on employment issues by The New York Times, The Associated Press, USA Today, MSNBC.com, HR Magazine, SHRM On-Line, Employment Law 360, Inside Counsel Magazine, as well as many other publications. Michael serves as an Advisory Board Member of GenHERation and as a Board Member of Serve, Inc. Michael is a 1997 magna cum laude graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law and a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.