IAML faculty are practicing attorneys, benefits counsel, labor lawyers, and experienced HR leaders. They teach the issues HR and management teams face in real time: investigations, documentation, discipline, leave and accommodation, labor relations, benefits, compliance, and manager judgment.
Employment-law faculty connect legal standards to complaint response, documentation, discipline, accommodation signals, and retaliation risk.
Benefits faculty teach plan governance, fiduciary duties, health and welfare issues, claims risk, and the practical consequences of technical compliance decisions.
IAML can match faculty and content to managers, HR teams, legal-adjacent teams, benefits professionals, or cross-functional leaders.
The point is not to turn HR professionals or managers into lawyers. The point is to help them recognize risk, ask better questions, document more carefully, escalate at the right time, and understand how daily workplace decisions can affect legal outcomes.
Faculty explain the standards and the management behaviors, records, and timing issues that affect outcomes.
Programs focus on what HR, employee relations, benefits, legal, compliance, and managers need to notice, document, resolve, or escalate.
Instruction stays close to the issues organizations face now: accommodations, wage and hour, labor relations, investigations, fiduciary duties, retaliation, and manager consistency.
Buyers need more than a compliance presentation. They need confidence that the instructor can explain what matters, what changes behavior, and where workplace decisions create avoidable risk. Faculty credibility is the proof behind IAML’s training promise.
Employee relations, manager decisions, documentation, investigations, accommodations, discipline, and policy application.
Employment, labor, benefits, ERISA, wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, privacy, and compliance issues.
Open enrollment programs and private training for HR, legal, compliance, benefits, employee relations, and management groups.
Continuing credit supports professional development; faculty quality is what makes the time useful beyond the certificate.
Scan by area of emphasis or search by name, organization, role, or workplace-law topic. Many instructors work across more than one lane, so categories are routing cues rather than rigid boundaries.
Human Resources Chief Exceptional Officer
DAS HR Consulting & Sanchez Associates
Di Ann helps organizations align people strategies with business performance—specializing in generational dynamics, pay equity, and IDEA initiatives. A nationally recognized HR strategist, she advises across industries from healthcare to manufacturing on building inclusive, high-performing workplaces.
Senior Director & Associate General Counsel
United Parcel Service, Inc.
Sara defends UPS against employment litigation while building programs that prevent disputes before they start. She brings 12+ years of experience from both in-house and BigLaw, plus a track record of community leadership—including founding Georgia's Korean American Bar Association during the rise of anti-AAPI hate.
Director, Global Employment Law
Terumo Blood & Cell Technologies
Brenda represents employers on discrimination, wage-and-hour compliance, workplace privacy, and wrongful termination disputes. She partners with HR professionals to prevent problems before they become lawsuits—and has delivered dynamic, practical IAML training for over 15 years.
Founder
Cicotte Law Firm
George brings a rare combination to ERISA work: he started as a pension actuary before becoming an attorney. For over 30 years, he has guided employers through retirement plan design, fiduciary duties, HIPAA/COBRA compliance, and ERISA litigation defense.
Partner
Thompson Hine LLP
Dominic advises on ESOPs, 401(k) plans, cash balance designs, and multiemployer plans—representing clients before the DOL, IRS, and PBGC. A former U.S.
Founder
Law Offices of Wayne Williams
Wayne advises employers on discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge, wage-and-hour compliance, and traditional labor law. A former University of Colorado professor and IAML faculty member for over 20 years, he brings both courtroom experience and classroom clarity to every issue.
Senior Counsel
Alston & Bird LLP
Doug defends Fortune 500 companies, government entities, and nonprofits in high-stakes ERISA class actions—401(k) fee disputes, employer stock cases, and pension litigation. A seasoned mediator and arbitrator, he brings decades of courtroom experience to the most complex benefits battles.
Partner
McGuireWoods
Carolyn designs and administers retirement plans—401(k), 403(b), pensions, and ESOPs—while advising on health plan compliance, COBRA, and HIPAA. She guides employers through IRS and DOL audits, M&A benefits issues, and ERISA fiduciary obligations.
Of Counsel
Wymer Employment Law
Dawn represents employers in employment, contract, and insurance disputes—with experience on both the plaintiff and defense sides. She champions a proactive approach to workplace issues, helping businesses prevent conflicts before they escalate into costly crises.
Partner
Foley Hoag LLP
Patrick navigates complex labor disputes, from unfair labor practice charges to federal court litigation. He advises employers through collective bargaining, union organizing drives, strikes, and corporate campaigns—turning persistent union challenges into resolved outcomes.
Shareholder at Littler Mendelson P.C.
Wymer Employment Law
Jacqueline advises employers on independent contractor classification, wage-and-hour compliance, and equal pay—defending clients in state and federal courts. She helps organizations avoid litigation through compliant policies, worker classification analyses, and practical training programs.
Partner
Alston & Bird LLP
John leads Alston & Bird's Health Benefits Practice, guiding clients through ACA compliance, HIPAA, HSAs, and consumer-driven health care. A Chambers Band 1 attorney and Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year," he shapes policy as head of ECFC's Technical Advisory Committee.
Senior Corporate Counsel
White Cap
Rudi represents employers in discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination disputes across state and federal courts. Beyond litigation, she helps organizations build policies that reduce risk before problems start.
Partner
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Amy advises employers in retail, hospitality, manufacturing, and healthcare on union avoidance, collective bargaining, and harassment prevention. A former chair of the ABA NLRA Law Development Subcommittee, she brings sharp legal analysis to complex labor challenges.
Assistant Secretary & Corporate Counsel
NCR Atleos
Leah advises on executive compensation, ERISA plans, and Section 409A compliance—including stock options, deferred compensation, and change-in-control arrangements. At NCR Atleos, she guides the design and governance of retirement, health, and equity-based incentive programs.
Partner
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Grant Gibeau defends employers against discrimination claims, wage-hour lawsuits, union challenges, and NLRB disputes. As a Taft partner in Minneapolis, he prevents workplace problems before they escalate and wins the battles that can't be avoided.
Partner
Thompson Hine LLP
John represents public and private sector employers in discrimination, wage-and-hour, labor negotiations, and ERISA disputes. He regularly appears before federal courts, the NLRB, EEOC, and Department of Labor—and co-authors The Developing Labor Law.
Partner at Williams Mullen
Wymer Employment Law
Ethan defends companies in environmental class actions, enforcement matters, and EPA investigations under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, RCRA, and CERCLA. With a biology background and two Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" honors, he brings scientific insight to complex environmental disputes.
Partner
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Ray has represented management in labor and employment disputes for over 40 years, winning the vast majority of his federal and state jury trials. He arbitrates 50+ cases annually and is twice named Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" for Labor Law in Denver.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Más Talent HR
Cyndi drives organizational change, talent strategy, and D&I initiatives for companies nationwide through her firm Más Talent. A former HR executive at Baylor Scott & White and Philips Medical, she was named one of Texas' Most Powerful & Influential Women.
Partner
Alston & Bird LLP
Ashley advises employers, plan administrators, and financial institutions on health and welfare plan compliance and ERISA litigation. A recognized authority on benefits law, he serves on the ECFC Technical Advisory Council and is listed in Best Lawyers in America® for ERISA.
Faculty proof should help a buyer take the next step: compare certificate programs, identify the best fit for a role, or ask whether private training would be better for a team.
For HR and employee relations professionals handling complaints, documentation, accommodation issues, discipline, and complex workplace decisions.
View programInvestigationsFor HR, legal, and employee relations teams that need investigation structure, interview judgment, credibility analysis, and report discipline.
View programBenefitsFor benefits professionals, HR leaders, and counsel working through ERISA, fiduciary duties, health plans, and plan administration risk.
View programTeamsFor organizations that want attorney-led training aligned to a shared audience, policy context, or recurring workplace-law issue.
Plan trainingIAML programs are taught by practicing employment law attorneys, benefits counsel, labor lawyers, and experienced HR leaders who work with the same kinds of workplace decisions HR, benefits, legal, compliance, and management teams face.
Attorney-led instruction helps participants connect policy requirements to real decisions: what to document, when to pause, when to escalate, how to recognize risk, and how management actions can affect legal outcomes.
Yes. IAML can plan private training for HR, employee relations, benefits, legal, compliance, and management teams, with content adapted to the audience, role level, and workplace issues the organization needs to address.
Compare programs by the workplace decisions your people face, or ask IAML which faculty-led path best fits the role, issue, or team.