Alan Oberlin, Employment Lawyer Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Transform a startup environment into a scalable, People Operations functionBuild/Oversee all People & Culture strategies for this fast-growing OTT start-up Manage staff of 7 HR professionals & Recruiters.• Take a small start-up public, IPO and NYSE uplist• Align People Operations with the company's strategic direction, including growing the US workforce • Built the People Operations practice, creating essential systems, processes, policies, tools and practices.• Oversee Recruiting, Employee Relations, Compensation/Payroll, Benefits, Development; Create/implement all essential related strategies tools and processes. • Created a comprehensive compensation strategy and systematic approach to compensation and the performance review process. • Identified operational needs and provided cost effective solutions with very limited resources. Lead HR investigations.• Built an HR Tool Kit and critical resources from scratch. Oversee the Immigration Process for hires from all over the world.• Drafted and implemented essential HR policies and procedures, responding to significant changes in local and state laws.• Counsel internal clients in developing comprehensive recruitment strategies. Oversee the creation of job descriptions and advertisements that target uniquely skilled tech professionals.• Serve as the senior advisor on matters of talent management, compensation, employee relations to all divisions. Work closely with internal client's senior teams to identify, design and implement HR solutions including process and policy re-design, performance management, restructuring, reorganizations and more.• Provide guidance on Employee relations issues as well as highly complex issues regarding the manager-employee relationship. Educate partner-clients on relevant policies, procedures and practices, factoring in the relevant legal aspects and implications of employment issues.

Greater New York City Area

• Build and oversee all HR, Talent Strategy and Operations for this event marketing and management firm.

New York City; Washington, D. C.; San Francisco; Chicago; London

• Build and oversee all People & Culture strategies for companies part of the Slate Media Group including -Slate Magazine, Panoply Media, and Foreign Policy.• Build the People Operations practice for entities within SMG, creating and/or streamlining systems, processes, policies and practices; Oversee all People practice areas including Recruiting, Employee Relations, Development, Compensation/Payroll, Benefits and all related strategies. • Identify operational inefficiencies and/or redundancies and provide cost effective solutions or alternatives.• Lay the groundwork and open Panoply's operations and studio in the UK.• Build HR Tool Kit and resources from scratch. • Manage the Immigration Process for foreign hires [Canada, UK, Australia]• Draft and implement essential HR policies and procedures.

New York, California & Florida

🎯 Develop strategic and tactical solutions - oversee all human capital solutions to advance business objectives.• Fast-paced, start-up like firm; roll-up your sleeves, hands on HR.♦️ Partner with CEO & COO: Plan, organize and direct all HR activities to ensure recruitment, development and retention of valued employees and clients.• Oversee all HR functions: Recruiting, Onboarding, Employee Relations and investigations, Compensation & Benefits, Employee Development, HR Systems, Budgets, Organizational Performance and more.• Oversight of complex, time-dependent projects involving staff and numerous subcontractors for a very demanding client base, while also helping manage the firm’s margins.• Designed and implemented new employee handbook, ER policy and process, vacation, sick leave and bonus/incentive system to boost productivity and engagement.• Designed Management Development modules to enhance leader effectiveness• Developed a core group of over 50 metrics to asses key aspects of org performance• Assess potential new line of business: prepare business, scope and impact reports.✅ Coachee made 2014-2015 CNN-Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list.

New York & California

🎯 Provided leadership and direction in the design of an end-to-end, firm-wide Talent Strategy that included integrated Talent Management, Leadership Development, Professional Development and Diversity solutions that reinforced the firm’s business strategy and culture and built leadership and client skills at every level.► Designed speaker series for firm clients and employees that brought industry innovators and trendsetters to share their perspective on the future of media. Program series obtained national media coverage. Speakers included: Chairman of the Board CBS, CEO of ESPN, CEO of Pandora, CEO of HULU and others.♦️ Fostered a talent mindset by developing deep relationships and thoroughly understanding capabilities, development priorities and career and business goals for all populations throughout the agency• Served as an HR Partner during a period of very rapid growth regarding Onboarding, Employee Relations and investigations, restructuring and staffing, compensation, performance/development, terminations, etc. Counseled managers and business heads on development interventions, organization/group effectiveness, performance improvement and related employee relations issues, executive coaching and more; conducted all exits.• Established talent management model including talent review-succession planning, workforce strategy, leadership/management development strategy.✅ Created a platform for Executive, Leadership and Management Development [competency-based], Talent Review and Succession Planning processes linked to Performance Management and Diversity Strategy.• Competency aligned programs to develop the critical capabilities needed for strategy execution• Planed, organized and led a Talent Council that advised on design and deployment of all talent initiatives. Led cross-segment talent discussions and planning.

New York, Ny & Silicon Valley, Ca

♦️ Industries Served: Global Fortune 100 firms in Technology/ Biotechnology, Aerospace, Publishing/Media, Manufacturing, Consumer Products.🎯 Provided HR/OD/OE strategic advice and solutions regarding staffing, onboarding, employee relations and investigations, career development, performance management, reorganization/restructuring, OD/OE, training and development, recognition and retention, EEO/AAP, and managing change; executive compensation negotiations.• Developed and/or led leadership, management development, team building, and soft skills training programs for all levels within an organization.• Designed change management, performance management and diversity initiative strategy, programming and implementation plans including supporting strategic communications.✅ 2 Coachees make CNN-Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list 3 years in a row.

North & South America; Based In New York, Ny

♦️ Oversaw Talent Management / Learning and OD/OE Projects for all Global Groups impacting over 100,000 employees:🎯 Created a climate of continuous growth and organizational effectiveness, supporting strategic world-wide initiatives.• Manage large-scale organizational change projects involving onboarding, talent management systems, learning strategy, design and development, diversity and culture change management.✅ Oversaw the global launch of a new, integrated Performance Management, Talent Management, Learning Management and Leadership System throughout the organization balanced with organizational Diversity Strategy.• Partnered with the HRBPs and key business leaders in the areas of recruitment, performance management and productivity, development planning and career development strategies, organizational readiness and team building diversity related concerns.* Designed new Onboarding process that was deployed globally.✅ Developed a comprehensive strategy to create a tiered, Business Development / Sales College and curriculum that addressed the needs of newly hired to 20+ year seasoned sales professionals, as part of my larger initiative to build a Corporate University.* Created a comprehensive leadership development strategy and process for the firm, identifying new leadership competencies for the firm.* Represent the firm as member of small global committees defining broad OD/OE policy and long range initiatives for MMC and its operating companies.• Served as the resident expert to HR and the businesses, providing management development and business skills solutions to all levels of professionals throughout all lines of business. • Provided learning solutions and resources to HR colleagues and business leaders.• Managed all budgets and expenses; identified ways to improve efficiencies and decrease costs; supervise staff.

New York, Ny

🎯 Oversaw all human resource matters including recruitment, onboarding, employee relations and investigations, career development, performance management, reorganization/restructuring, organization development and effectiveness, training and development, recognition and retention, EEO/AA, managing change [culture and processes], benefits, compensation and more.♦️ Directed all HR services and transactions - Recruiting, On-boarding/Off-boarding, Employee Relations and investigations, Talent Development, Benefits & Compensation and more for a professional client base of over 350.• Represented the University at Union hearings & grievance meetings.• Conducted investigations and mediated conflicts; oversaw all ER issues, complaints and violations of policy, ethics and code of conduct.• Counseled management on documentation and legal requirements for discipline /termination procedures. • Facilitated discipline and separation meetings; Conducted exits. ✅ Developed competency models; created development planning tool.✅ Redesigned performance management system, enhanced with an employee self-evaluation component.• Managed a team of HR professionals

New York, Ny & Silicon Valley, Ca

♦️ Industries Served: Global Publishing/Media, Financial Services, Biotech/Tech, Manufacturing, Consumer Products🎯 Provided solutions for all human resource matters to a clients from a broad range of industries.• Developed and/or led leadership, management development, team building, soft skills training and diversity programs for all levels within an organization.✅ Design and deliver a wide range of HR- L&D/OD/OE consultative services including: C-Level executive compensation negotiations. Reviewed comp structure, bonus components and benefits. Contract review and revisions.• Conducted coaching and/or career counseling for executives who need help adjusting their style to accommodate a new corporate vision/mission, culture, business situation, merger/acquisition, joint venture/start up, turnaround, partnership or international assignment✅ Designed change management and diversity initiative strategy and implementation plans including strategic communications to market change• Developed soft skills/management/leadership/team building training program design and delivery.

[Prior to HRD Consulting]UBS- VP, Global Professional Development & Org Effectiveness- Diversity Training & MentoringViacom-MTV Networks - Org Development & ReOrg Specialist North & South AmericaHarvard/ HBS - HRBP {Museums, HLS] and Manager, Global Executive Development ProgramsNon-Profit Experience: NAACP & NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Boston - work for Exec Director"Eyes on the Prize I & II" Henry Hampton Productions for PBS [also aired on the BBC] Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination - worked for the CommissionerPhysicians for Human Rights / Doctors Without Borders - worked for Nobel Prize winning FounderUnion of Concerned Scientists - worked with Exec DirectorOxfam International - US & UK operationsAmnesty International - Boston

Executive Education

9 Human Resources - Talent Management - Organization Development Programs [see course list]

A. B. [Honors], East Asian Languages & Civilizations - China

♦️ Full Merit Scholarship - all 4 years Honor Society Parliamentarian, Student Government Curatorial Assistant - Busche-Reisinger Museum &.

A. M., Chinese History & Philosophy

♦️ Full Merit Scholarship Undergraduate Thesis Advisor President's Committee on Student Life ♦️ Peter Wilson Award for Humanitarian.

Jd, Employment Law; Employment Discrimination, Diversity & Labor Law

♦️ Evelyn Reid Prize for academic achievement ♦️ Guggenheim Internship [1st Year - Summer] ♦️ International Foundation for Art Research.