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The SB Group partners with corporations and law firms to grow profitability. Clients include a select array of Private Equity companies and their portfolio enterprises. We provide highly customized business leadership services for the Board of Directors, CEO, COO, GC, HRVP and CIO and their management teams. We provide diagnostics, as well as design and build facilitation. We excel at working one-on-one with executives and in very intimate teams. We do some of our most meaningful and valuable work discretely redirecting high risk conditions (risk for reputational or financial loss.)Although we maintain some of the most unique skill in highly technical compliance areas governing the securities and finance industries (see below), we are agile and very active in manufacturing, energy, supply chain, hospitality, education and health care industries. Business processes refined and corporate relationships reformed to achieve greater degrees of profitability, efficiency and personal satisfaction/meaning are key outcomes of the engagements we accept.Services include: Harassment investigations, Dodd Frank Section 342 and HERA Section 1116 compliance interpretations, engineering and brand strategies; state and local inclusion compliance interpretations and applications; training, coaching and other learning platforms supporting these content; discreet EEO workplace investigations and Ellerth inquiries with a specialty in senior position, high risk allegations; related communication products, services and public relations; intervention facilitation/mediation among parties after concerns are raised; audit and monitoring services post-judgment or post-settlement; earlier process improvements and diagnostic devices applied as prevention strategies; and a variety of process innovation applications to lift corporate environments to greater levels of maturity and profitability.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alliance-Of-Securities-and-Financial-Educators-ASAFE/152569840831?ref=aymt_homepage_panelSee this site for photos and narratives documenting the 15 year success of the ASAFE community of leaders and learners. Our story includes engaging more than 500 diverse students from more than 17 law and business schools in NY, DC and Florida. It includes a select core faculty from major law firms and Wall Street financial firms including Linda Thomsen, Brian Breheny, Peter Canzano and Barry Barbash who have been constant factors of our success over these years. ASAFE was recognized in 2014 with an annual innovation award by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association for innovative learning methods and an accelerator business model formed in partnership with the New York City Bar Association, Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners. This model boosted the scale of ASAFE's success in achieving its mission of leadership and skill development among high potential, emerging diverse talent in the securities and finance industry.

I was honored to accept the invitation to be a member of this bar committee. This group of experienced executives includes client firm representatives, attorneys from law schools, government, major corporations and law firms. We focused on key updates to operating principles, better practices and related measuring/reporting formulas the NY City Bar frames as a point of reference. More than 100 firm signatories to this suite of elements engaged with bar leadership in this updating, refining process, a dynamic exercise led by Gabrielle Brown, NYCB Executive, and co-chairs Justice Rosalyn Richter, NY State Appellate Division, and Nate Saint Victor, Morgan Stanley. See updates to this committee's progress at this site: www.NYCB.org.

Served as the regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks pursuant to Dodd-Frank and HERA statutes and regulations--that included governing board of director diversity and inclusion processes and outcomes. Pursuant to HERA, was responsible for designing new compliance metrics and examination processes aimed at regulated entities, including the Federal Home Loan Banks, in this new federal domain; took the opportunity to model and redefine how to support institutional profitability with straight forward compliance efficiencies. Led a team of examiners, human capital experts, financial analysts, lawyers and IT experts in this endeavor. Provided leadership by structuring open design and algorithm innovations in measuring board of director processes, institutional Minority and Women Owned Business (MWOB) procurement, talent management and EEO practices and related compliance streams. Conducted FHFA specific federal rule-making on board of director standards, strategies and compliance. This effort included a year long listening tour of the Federal Home Loan Banks and Freddie and Fannie as well as constituent professional associations related to this new federal oversight and compliance program.In this role was also responsible for internal FHFA operations and programs for EEO compliance, harassment prevention and abatement. Supervised EEO Director and related investigative processes as well as content related training/coaching programs. Leadership CouncilsParticipated in multi-year design process with OMWI Directors from the FSOC community including the SEC, FDIC, OCC, Treasury, Fed, CFPB and NCUA engineering new federal guidance for regulated entities' Dodd-Frank section 342 compliance published in the Federal Register in 2015.Served appointed role at OPM along with seven senior executives from major federal agencies and EEOC. Focus--new executive order governing all federal agencies modeled on section 342 of Dodd-Frank.

Designed new curriculum, advised Dean on launch processes, recruited and developed adjunct faculty to new graduate studies program, one of a suite of five new master's degree programs at Georgetown University. Designed and taught full semester, for credit courses on Succession Planning, Diversity and Inclusion, EEO and Labor Compliance strategies, and other Human Capital topics. Part of team that achieved awards for diversity curriculum design and national accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education as part of the reaccreditation cycle of Georgetown University in 2012. Led design and execution of seminars on special topics for mandatory, full student body development. With the first graduating class, received first of its kind Outstanding Faculty Award, recognition derived from faculty and student surveys for teaching methods, leadership and program/content development.

Adjunct Faculty at the Manhattan campus. Course content in several separate certificate programs: Investigations, EEO compliance program design, learning program design, program measurements, applied theories, research techniques for corporate Inclusion and Diversity, legal research for administrative compliance standards and leadership executive coaching resources and techniques. Adult learners/audiences/students from private and public sector: executives, teams, board of director members, labor analysts, policy makers, HR leaders, HR consultants, educators and trainers.

Administrator for EEOC's Washington Region State and Local Program. In this role served as the regulator of five regional civil rights commissions including Alexandria, Arlington, DC, Fairfax, and Prince William County Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs). Performed this oversight combining a consultative and compliance approach providing advice, counsel, coaching and training to executive directors and their managers and investigators. Improved issue spotting among FEPA leaders for acceptances/rejections. Integrated efficiencies and quality controls including legal procedural and prima facia audits of more than 600 investigations annually. Drafted insufficiency analysis and crafted abatement opportunity letters aligned with legal requirements for employment discrimination investigations in EEOC's State and Local Program. Legal content included Title VII, ADEA, Equal Pay Act and ADA cases. Performed COO duties approving and rejecting investigative products and was accountable as the procurement executive in charge of assigning to FEPAs investigations and approving payments for investigative services as part of a national strategy to reduce EEOC case inventory. Developed speciality (with notable following among both plaintiff and defense bar attorneys) for clarifying complex jurisdictional rules and parameters. Developed tools and interpretations for both bars to navigate the maze of state and local charge filing jurisdictional requirements that overlap with federal jurisdictional filing requirements. Regular appearances before local bar association employment committee panels enriched and improved the quality of this regulatory service to the employment bar communities.Received recognition for lead staff attorney role serving on two year national, EEOC Commissioner led task force. This re-engineering effort brought together EEOC Commissioners, EEOC regional directors and FEPAS from all 50 states to significantly reform EEOC's State and Local Program.

During this period, this was the largest law firm in the US combining multiple practice specialties and several thousand lawyers. Performed as part of start up public finance practice, a small team of lawyers, para professionals and analysts performing primarily Bond Counsel role for issuers. Clients included mayors from major US cities and some foreign sovereign originators. Legislative arm of this group included former US senators and congressmen representing major corporations and national associations.

Appointed to lead 45 member committee to influence law firm and law office policies and legislation impacting women attorneys. Produced widely acclaimed benchmark review and innovative recommendations for law office design. Focus included work life balance and profitability maximizing men and women associates and partners in work life balance equations. Produced multiple forums as a strategy to convey recommendations, verify process of research and analysis and champion policies by endorsement among high level partners and their clients.

Boutique law firm representing underwriters in public finance transactions. Fundings included multi family housing, highways, hospitals, schools and public utilities.

Interviewed by 60 Minutes and covered in the Wall Street Journal, part of two person legal team that won coal industry national oversight by OFCCP. Advanced class actions and individual cases on behalf of women seeking jobs in the coal industry. Advanced new policy protocols in the industry to address harassment prior to case law establishing legal compliance standards. Participated in testimony before EEOC during its policy engineering in response to Supreme Court decisions framing the earliest employment harassment law making prohibitions.