Welcome to the Busch School of Business People & Organizations Program.
The People & Organizations Program hosts Executive Seminars for Human Resources Professionals and our regularly recurring HR Speaker Series.
These programs are designed to educate business owners, executives, human resource professionals, and HR students in a wide array of human resource content and best practices, all enlivened by Catholic Social Teaching and enveloped in the practice of virtue.
At the center of the Busch School’s approach to human resources management is the Dignity of the Worker. Find out more here.
Human Resources Speaker Series
UPCOMING EVENTS
There are no upcoming events currently.
PAST EVENTS
Patrick Kenneally - Understanding and Managing the Legal Liabilities of DEI
Good for Business Panel - Andrew Abela, Greg Garrabrants. Anson Frericks, Jeremy Tedesco - What is the Purpose of a Business
Dan Cellucci - Scaling Culture in a Growing Organization Top 10 Lessons Learned
John Drake - Religious Freedom and Other Hot Topics in Employment Law
Religious freedom faces challenges from laws, government agencies, employee claims, and employers. This event will focus on tensions and developments, including the ministerial exception, the right of association, and recent Supreme Court decisions. John Drake will also address other hot topics, including affirmative action, DEI; pregnancy and abortion; and politics in the workplace.
John A. Drake is a versatile attorney specializing in employment law and commercial disputes. He is a shareholder at Ogletree Deakins, a premier labor and employment law firm in the U.S. and internationally, working out of the Indianapolis and Chicago offices. He offers strategic legal advice and advocates vigorously for clients, particularly in restrictive covenants, trade secrets, and unfair competition cases. John chairs the firm’s Intellectual Property subgroup, leveraging his experience in trademark and copyright issues. A South Bend native, he has a robust background, including serving as Editor-in-Chief of law review, clerking for a federal judge, and working with the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and as a newspaper reporter.]
Jonathon Berry - HR and Labor Policy According to Catholic Teaching
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Roger Severino - DEI After the Harvard and UNC Cases
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Stephanie Holmes - Employment Law, DEI and Other Hot HR Topics
Andrea Lucas - A Fireside Chat with the EEOC Commissioner: Diversity and Equity in America
Executive Seminars
Our latest Executive Seminar, held on September 19th, 2024, featured Randy Reardon and Tracy Phillips discussing how to Champion Dignity in the Workplace.
Zoom Recording for Executive Seminar
Program Director Tracy Phillips - Dignity of the Worker Framework
Tracy Phillips is Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice at The Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America. Tracy has over twenty years of experience as a consultant specializing in human resources, training & development, management & leadership development and organization development. She has consulted for companies of all sizes, yet her passion is for small, entrepreneurial companies. Recently she served as HR Director for an entrepreneurial market research company positioning itself for an equity transaction, building the HR function from the ground up. Tracy also serves as a leadership consultant with the Catholic Leadership Institute.
[Professor Phillips can be reached at: phillipstr@cua.edu or https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-phillips-47893b/ ]
Randy Reardon: “Bringing your faith to work, in the way of St Francis”
Randy is an HR professional with over 40 years of experience in various industries and roles. He started his career with The Walt Disney Company and was soon leading learning programs at The Disney University. After a short stint in Corporate Marketing at Disney, he went into the newly created role of Director, Leadership and Organization Development for Walt Disney Imagineering. Future HR roles we with JPMorgan Chase, Santandar Bank, Stryker Orthopaedics and he has just finished 15 years with LabCorp as VP of HR-Corporate Enterprise Functions and Head of the HR M&A COE. In this role Randy worked directly with C-Suite leaders for all of the Global Corporate Functions and was the HR lead for the 1-12 M&A transactions completed annually, including the largest Health Care transaction with Ascension Health. Randy is from New Hope, PA in the diocese of Philadelphia. He belongs to a Men’s Faith group that meets weekly and has interesting experiences in living his faith at work.