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Summary:  This training will give attendees an introduction to, and basic skill training in workplace investigations.  We will share war stories, and cutting edge tips on investigations in the post-Covid age.

The following topics will be discussed:

• When must/should you Investigate a workplace concern?

• Investigation Planning, Scope and Stakeholder management.

• Interviewing skills and tips (including guidelines on interviewing in the age of Zoom).

• Documenting your findings (including some discussion on credibility assessment).

Liz Rita's Bio

Liz Rita has been providing impartial investigations to clients in Colorado and around the country since 1994. She specializes in complex investigations in the workplace, with a special focus on high profile or high litigation risk situations. Her practice has run the gamut from class-based discrimination investigations to hostile work environment, retaliation, whistle-blower, ethics violations, rape and sexual assault and executive misconduct. She started her career at a national firm doing commercial litigation, spent the next several years at a regional Denver firm heading up their employment law practice, and in 2007 ventured out to form her own investigations firm. She has never looked back.

Ms. Rita read every Nancy Drew book as a kid, as soon as it came out, which may have been a clue about where her professional life would take her. Ms. Rita wakes up every day happy to go to work, and from that perspective, considers herself a very lucky human being. Ms. Rita’s sits on the Board of Directors of the Association of Workplace Investigators, North America’s premier workplace investigator association. Her firm, Investigations Law Group, is based in Denver Colorado.

Anne Rooney McCord's Bio

Anne has dedicated her career to building transformational work cultures that drive business results. She has over 20 years of Executive-level Human Resources experience in the high tech, start up and non-profit worlds and brings a client-centered vantage point to the ILG tea.

Anne heads up ILG’s Strategic Services driving cultural transformation and building concrete tools and mitigation strategies for the most difficult people challenges companies face. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and holds certifications as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and SHRM Senior Certified Professional.