Director Organizational Development in New York City Resume Steven Greenblatt

STEVEN J. GREENBLATT, Esq. Admitted to the New York State Bar [email protected] 516-302-5419 PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SKILLS:  Creator and presenter of innovative enterprise-driven organizational training and interventions  Embraced philosophy of Completed Staff Work to define project management and investigative reports, ensuring self-accountability  Accomplished trial, appellate, hearing advocate, investigator, legal researcher, writer, ombudsman, public speaker  Re-engagement of employees through their psychological contracts  Identified and developed non-trainers to present training and serve as internal champions  Forestalled lawsuits and grievances based on evenhanded conciliation and earned trust

Professional Experience Director, Workforce Training and Development Additional Part-Time Duties: Ethics Officer Temporary Employment Counsel Acting Affirmative Action Officer S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center

2002 - 2015 2014 - 2015 2009 - 2010 2002 - 2008

Create unique training designed to restore or maintain organizational health and vitality:  New Supervisor’s Orientation  21st Century Leadership Skills  Communication and Counseling Skills  Ethics in the Workplace  Violence Prevention  Performance Management  “Cultural Sensitivity and Customer Service”  “Respect in the Workplace: It’s Not Just About Sexual Harassment”  “The Road to Employee Engagement: The Psychological Contract”: Practical tools change the employeremployee conversation, providing virtually cost-free solutions to employee disengagement in trying fiscal times

Separate responsibilities focused on recognizing and resolving organizational problems:   

Facilitate resolution of workplace conflict, reducing grievances and strife Spearhead Employee Satisfaction Initiative Create outplacement program for 700 employees

Director, Labor Relations Ethics Officer

1987 - 2002

Part-Time Duties in addition to serving as Director of Labor Relations:

Director, Affirmative Action and Supervisory Training S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center

1996 - 2002

Established collegial relations with all eight collective bargaining units Created cutting-edge policies in time and attendance, sexual harassment, discrimination and discipline Negotiated creative disciplinary outcomes to safeguard the best interests of the patients and the institution Reduced fraud in the administration of Time and Attendance, Ethics, Workers Compensation Prevailed in every employment claim in state and federal courts, EEOC and Division of Human Rights Initiated Ethics training and communication; resolved several notable cases of unethical practices Set New York State precedent through recognition of supremacy of patient rights over arbitrator’s improvident exercise of discretion – David Young v. S.U.N.Y., 566 N.Y.S.2d 79 (1991) Significantly reduced arbitrations and grievances

Pro Bono Arbitrator - NYC Small Claims Court

1993 - 1996

Deputy Inspector General/Department Advocate New York City Department of Sanitation

1983 - 1987

Restructured presentation of trials to streamline disciplinary system of over 4,000 cases annually Reduced fraud in time and attendance, substance abuse, sexual harassment, workers compensation Crafted training for all new supervisors and employees, resulting in decrease of disciplinary complaints Created novel training program for attorneys and investigators

Director, Criminal Justice Appellate Reference Service New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services

1982 - 1983

Appellate Counsel to district attorneys in twenty-three counties in the Third and Fourth Departments Editor of primary legal resource for state prosecutors, monthly Criminal Law Review Mounted mandatory weeklong training conferences for new prosecutors statewide

Law Secretary to the Administrative Judge Supreme Court, Bronx County, Criminal Term New York State Office of Court Administration Managed personnel and operational matters; reduced vast court backlog

1980 - 1982

Drafted decisions for Administrative Judge Advised judges, law secretaries and attorneys

Assistant District Attorney/Trial Supervisor Bronx County District Attorney’s Office Supreme Court , Appeals Bureaus

1976 - 1980

Tried felony cases; defense witness confessed to perjuring herself on the stand Wrote and orally argued appeals in federal and state courts Supervised and trained appellate attorneys in investigative and trial techniques Managed trial calendar by ensuring ready cases as Trial Supervisor of 16 appellate attorneys

Education LL.M. in Labor Law J.D. cum laude Associate Editor, Law Review B.A. cum laude

New York University Law School New York Law School

1981 1976

Brooklyn College

1971

Awards Received Bridge-Builder Award: Employee Satisfaction and Engagement Initiative Fennell Award for Excellence in Training, NYS Training Council, NYC Chapter NYS/CSEA Labor Management Award for Quality of Work Life Stockman and American Jurisprudence Awards in Evidence Full scholarship to NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Recent Published Papers In Press: “Teaching ‘Business Ethics’ as a Sequitur” in Ethics in Biology, Engineering & Medicine: An International Journal at http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/6ed509641f7324e6,forthcoming,12524.html Authored chapter on Employment in Risk Management in Healthcare Institutions, F. Kavaler, Ed., Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2012, pp. 61-95. http://samples.jbpub.com/9781449645656/45656_CH03_Kavalar.pdf

Consulting Presenter Three-day program, “Managing People”, for Penn State University School of Labor and Employment Relations Principal, Carpe Diem Associates Training in Leadership, Counseling, Communication, Cultural Diversity, Respect in the Workplace; Employee Engagement; Policy Development; Investigations; Arbitration Advocacy

Steven J. Greenblatt, Esq. 516-302-5419 [email protected] www.linkedin.com/in/StevenGreenblatt