Melissa is an HR professional committed to bringing prevention upstream into our people practices to bridge the gap between HR and security and strengthen the health and safety of our organizations. For more than 25 years, she has led people practices as a trusted advisor and creative partners.

 

Building bridges between security and HR can transform our people practices into powerful tools to prevent and mitigate workplace threats. Whether these threats are physical or inside, human problems require human solutions.

 

Melissa presents worldwide, from How Not to Hire a Psychopath to how to Say Goodbye (employee separations) and HR perspective on insider risk. From protecting our intellectual property to concerns about coworkers present and past, she looks at engaging ways to bring prevention upstream and leverage our organizational culture as a security force multiplier.

 

Melissa holds an MBA from the University of Washington and her law degree, with a focus on employment law and mediation, from the Seattle University School of Law.