D.E.I., Properly Understood

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D.E.I., Properly Understood

April 22, 7:00 pm Eastern Time

Meeting Details

The Program: This presentation will identify the various values underlying D.E.I.: Fairness, Opportunity, Responsibility and Hospitality. The goal is to provide a non-ideological approach to understanding these D.E.I. initiatives in ways that are consistent with values that all Americans share.

Presenter Bios

Antone Aboud, Ph.D.

Antone Aboud, Ph.D. is a retired Professor of Practice at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State. During his tenure he served as the School’s Director of Online Programs. In that capacity he was not only involved in the daily management of the online programs, but also actively involved in course creation and revision processes. He also served as Director of the Center for Workplace Performance, the School’s management outreach platform.

Antone received a B.A. degree in Government from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Collective Bargaining, Labor Law and Labor History from the ILR School at Cornell. Originally, he worked full-time in SUNY’s Office of Faculty and Staff relations, became a faculty member at SUNY (Utica/Rome and Potsdam) and then at St. Francis College. In those capacities he taught Labor Relations, HR Management, Labor Law, Management Theory and Organizational Behavior. He also served as a labor arbitrator for several years, and as a chief labor negotiator for both unions and employers. For more than two decades he was a full-time management consultant specializing in risk management training and related interventions.

Steve Greenblatt

Steve Greenblatt has over 30 years of human resource practice in employee relations, employee discipline, training and organizational development, Affirmative Action, conflict resolution, and contract and benefits administration. Prior to that, Steve served as Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County, Appellate Counsel to District Attorneys in over 20 counties in New York State and Deputy Inspector General for the NYC Department of Sanitation in charge of its disciplinary system. As a trial and appellate attorney in criminal and civil disciplinary arenas, Steve has trained attorneys, investigators and human resource professionals in investigative, arbitration and trial techniques.

In human resources roles, while Director of Labor Relations, and Director of Workforce Training and Development at the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) Downstate Medical Center, he also served as Ethics Officer, Acting Affirmative Action Officer and Temporary Employment Counsel. As Training Director, Steve focused on enhancing leaders’ self-awareness, restoring organizational trust and vitality, and reducing implicit bias. Steve has litigated grievance and disciplinary arbitrations, mediated and resolved disputes, crafted policies and procedures and managed employee satisfaction, engagement and outplacement initiatives. He currently teaches online graduate courses for Pennsylvania State University in ethics for human resource practitioners and in human resource leadership. Formerly he taught Management for the S.U.N.Y. College of Health-Related Professions, and Business Law at Queensborough Community College.

Steve received his B.A. in Political Science at Brooklyn College, his J.D. from New York Law School, and a Masters in Labor Law from the New York University School of Law. He currently conducts training and management consulting. His research interests focus on the impact of discrimination in the workplace, leadership, workplace civility, retaliation, bystanders, bullying, sexual harassment, employee engagement, risk management in employment, and ethics pedagogy.

Location
Zoom.com Link will be provided the day of the presentation.

Cost
No cost