October 2020 Meeting

 Reputational Risk in A Society Focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Protecting Employees and Mitigating Employer Liability

Employers of all sizes are battling with how to manage, and mitigate, any perceived or actual reputational risk as it relates to workplace culture, diversity, inclusion, and equality. Learn how to truly protect any company, culture, and employees - all at the same time - while mitigating legal and financial risk.

Presented by Jared Pope, CEO and founder of Work Shield.

While practicing law focused on human resources, ERISA, benefits and employment matters, Jared realized that industry standard practices and the “system” for managing workplace harassment and discrimination were broken. Despite using outside reporting platforms, internal incident investigations meant employees were not reporting incidents due to fear of retaliation, and employers were not protecting their culture or themselves from the risk of legal action. Always ready for a challenge, Jared decided to make the system better, where voices are truly hear and incidents have a clear path to resolution. Jared created Work Shield – the first and only start-to-finish workplace harassment and discrimination solution and technology platform that gives employees a real voice, protects and ensures a safe workplace culture, and mitigates employer liability – all at the same time.