Natasha Bowman, J.D., SPHR has 10 years of progressive Human Resources experience with a versatile track record across varying industries. She currently serves as a Market Human Resource Manager for Walmart, Stores, Inc. In this capacity, she guides and leads the Human Resources services, policies and programs for a workforce of 3,000 employees across eight retail units in the Metro New York area. Prior to this role, she provided for the oversight and strategy of employment compliance matters for the US business and Puerto Rico for Walmart Corporate with a primary focus in the areas of: Wage and Hour (FLSA), EEO, ADA, Employment Verifications, Federal/State Regulatory Compliance, and Consent Decree Management. In addition to her roles with Walmart, she has lead the Human Resources function on a regional level for a national manufacturing company as well as managed the Human Resources function for a mid-sized law firm. Natasha holds a J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law where participated in Walmart’s Stores, Inc. Legal Internship Program and was a law clerk for the Fayetteville, Arkansas office of Littler Mendelson. During law school, Natasha was inducted as a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal honor society and placed regionally in the American Bar Association’s Client Counseling Competition. Natasha has also been an author and researcher for several labor and employment law related publications. Natasha has held the Senior Professional in Human Resources designation since 2009.
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This instructor has taught:
Global Labor and Employment Law
Workplace Ethics

Nancy Burnett, JD is a Senior Attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of EEO and a Senior Strategist with Tucker Spearman & Associates, Inc., an EEO and Inclusion management company. In these roles she designs and delivers training for Directors of Diversity, HR, and EEO and their staff including investigators and counselors. In addition, she coaches executives on EEO and inclusion topics and provides program design on these topics including leveraging strategies for business development.
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This instructor has taught:
Strategic Diagnosis and Planning in Diversity and Inclusion
Creating and Sustaining a Climate of Inclusion

Dr. Nadine Burnside is an organizational effectiveness and human resources practitioner. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of Human Resources and Organizational Development.  She has held progressively responsible positions including managing organizational performance, talent management, position classification and compensation, and strategic management operations.  Moreover, she has served as project manager for several high profiled organizational effectiveness initiatives and has provided consultation and professional development on strategic management, organizational change management, diversity and inclusion, leadership and team development, compensation, and employment law and practices.
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This instructor has taught:
Managing Complex Systems Change

Charles T. Cisney is an International Human Resources professional with demonstrated expertise and who specializes in international compensation & benefits, crisis management, management and leadership training as well as strategic human resources management.
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This instructor has taught:
Global Compensation and Benefits
Foundations of HR

Cynde is a Human Resource professional with over ten years of full life-cycle recruiting experience in the professional services industry. She has seven years of direct experience sourcing, recruiting, hiring and onboarding experienced accounting and legal professionals for Deloitte's audit and tax practices. Prior to joining Deloitte, Cynde spent over three years as a senior search consultant with a boutique executive search firm doing recruiting and relationship management for corporate clients, including Deloitte.
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This instructor has taught:
Consulting Skills in Human Capital

Wayne Connell is Vice President of Human Resources for The Washington Post where he leads the HR function in workforce planning, talent acquisition, total rewards, organizational development, retention, and HR policy.  He has 15 years of HR experience, spanning the hospitality, aviation, and media industries.
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This instructor has taught:
Strategic Thinking in HR

Wanda A. Cumberlander is an organizational effectiveness and management consultant. She specializes in change management, transition management, diversity consulting and training, organizational development, strategic planning, leadership development, group facilitation, executive coaching, and career development.
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This instructor has taught:
MPS HR Capstone

Alison Davis represents management in employment and labor law. She has extensive litigation experience in the employment arena including: sexual harassment, race, national origin, age, gender and disability discrimination, overtime, FMLA, USERRA, the Railway Labor Act, and wrongful termination claims. Alison also counsels employers on employment laws, policies and procedures, disciplinary actions, diversity and wage and hour issues. Earlier in her career, she served as Associate General Counsel for Labor and Employment at the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), Vice-President & Assistant General Counsel with Zurich North America, and later as a Partner at a Washington, DC law firm. She earned a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA with honors from McGill University.
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This instructor has taught:
Global Labor and Employment Law
MPS HR Capstone

Michael Grove is a principal of Grove USA, a management consulting firm that works with early-stage companies seeking rapid launches or expansion.  Michael’s expertise includes advising clients on how to build high performance launch teams, go-to-market and align human capital to corporate strategy.   His expertise in human capital began as president of Talentsmart, Inc. where he advised senior HR executives at major companies to design and implement competency-based programs for selection, development and succession planning.  With a specialty in healthcare, his work earned him recognition by the Joint Commission (JCAHO) for designing HR systems that improved patient safety in hospitals and health systems. A teacher and consultant throughout his career, Michael has taught at a top 10 business school and worked with more than 350 companies, including nearly a dozen Fortune 500.  Michael earned his B.S. (honors) and MBA from Boston University. 
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This instructor has taught:
Consulting Skills in Human Capital

Monica P. Hawkins is Founder, CEO and Connector of Professional Pipeline Development Group (PPDG), is a consulting firm focused on Strategic Planning for Diversity with a focus on workforce initiatives and multicultural/emerging markets.
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Kevin M. Horan is currently the Vice-President, Human Resources for TechnoServe – a non-profit/NGO that employs over 800 employees worldwide, all focused on local economic development and entrepreneurship work with the poor in developing countries. In this role he is responsible for the establishment and maintenance of a global approach to Human Resource management – to include employee relations, policy, compensation and benefits, compliance, diversity, organization and employee development, recruitment, and safety. Mr. Horan is the first person to hold this role at TechnoServe and has been focused on developing streamlined global processes that can be localized in each country TechnoServe serves.
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This instructor has taught:
HR in the International Context

Christopher J. Metzler, PhD is Associate Dean of Human Resources for the Masters of Professional Studies at The School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Georgetown University; he was on the faculty at Cornell University's ILR School where he directed the EEO and Diversity Studies program. Prior to entering higher education, he headed the strategic issues and research practice at an international consulting firm and provided advice to multinational corporations and governments on human rights, human capital, equality, corporate social responsibility, discrimination and diversity. He lectures globally on diversity, global employment practices, corporate social responsibility, human rights, human resources and comparative employment systems.
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This instructor has taught:
Workplace Ethics
Foundations of HR
London Immersion Program
MPS HR Capstone
New Student Immersion Lab

Dr. Johnson is the Associate Chief Human Capital Officer for Human Capital Strategic Management at the Department of the Treasury. 
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This instructor has taught:
Workplace Ethics

Kevin Kraham began his career in employment and labor law with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as an investigator, law clerk, and administrative judge. Mr. Kraham has since dedicated his legal practice to representing clients in employment litigation before administrative agencies and state and federal courts, labor arbitrations, collective bargaining negotiations, and equal employment counseling and training. He represents a variety of employers, including those in the transportation, education, hospitality, distribution, healthcare, government contracting, and nonprofit industries.
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Robert L. Manuel, PhD is dean of the School of Continuing Studies (SCS) at Georgetown University. He has more than 20 years in higher education experience in specific areas such as admissions, technology development, events, financial aid, developing and implementing academic programs including graduate and online learning strategies at New York University and Georgetown University.
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This instructor has taught:
Strategic Thinking in HR

Kaara Martinez is a human rights attorney with a background in US refugee law. She also has experience with complex commercial litigation matters, including defamation, construction defect, and breach of contract disputes.  Earlier in her career, she worked with the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation at the Consulate General of Barbados at Miami, attracting and sustaining international investment for Barbados, and promoting the exportation of Barbadian products and services to North America.  
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This instructor has taught:
Diversity and Inclusion in the International Context
MPS HR Capstone

As a partner in an international law firm described by Business Week as a litigation powerhouse, Bill practices exclusively on behalf of management in connection with American employment litigation and global employment policy matters. Bill is widely regarded as an exceptional trial lawyer and an innovative, pragmatic global employment policy advisor. Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business notes "Bill Martucci is worth having on any dream team for employment litigation and policy issues."
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This instructor has taught:
Multinational Business Policy and Geopolitics

Steve Miranda is the former Chief HR and Content Integration Officer for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest professional HR association, serving over 250,000 members in over 125 countries. Prior to leaving SHRM, Steve’s responsibilities included all aspects of HR for the Society as well as the establishment of short- and long-term business and strategic goals. He was also responsible for SHRM’s research, content development and diversity programs. Prior to joining SHRM, Steve was a HR VP at Lucent Technologies (currently Alcatel-Lucent). At Lucent, Steve spent 3-1/2 years in Hong Kong providing HR leadership for Lucent’s 14,000 person Asia-Pacific business. He also led the development of HR strategies for Bell Laboratories, the world famous R&D engine that has generated 11 Nobel Prize winners over the past 70 years. 
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This instructor has taught:
HR in the International Context
Global Implications of HR

Shawn Mood is VP, Human Resources for Abt Associates, a $300M research and consulting firm with a mission of improving the standard of living of
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This instructor has taught:
Global Implications of HR

Marc A. Nivet, Ed.D., is the Chief Diversity Officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Nivet is known for seeking out and connecting people and ideas, creating innovative collaborations that have been recognized nationally as models of success. Through his writing and lectures, he has worked to reframe the conversation around diversity, elevating diversity out of its silo and into the company of talent management and strategic planning as drivers of organizational transformation and performance improvement. In the context of academic medicine, this means linking diversity to the overall mission of better health outcomes for all.   He most recently served as Treasurer and COO for the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, which strives to foster innovation in health professional education and to align the education of health professionals with contemporary health needs and a changing health care system. Prior to the Macy Foundation, Dr. Nivet held a directorship at the Sallie Mae Fund, the philanthropic arm of the SLM Corporation.  Before that, he worked for seven years as the Associate Executive Director of the Associated Medical Schools of New York, where he oversaw several programs designed to increase enrollment and retention of minority students in the health professions. He gathered valuable on the ground experience as director of the Office of Minority Affairs at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine from 1995 to 1998.   Dr. Nivet earned his Doctorate in Education from the University Of Pennsylvania.   A fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. Nivet is a past president of the National Association of Medical Minority Educators, which presented him with its Outstanding Service Award in 2006. He received the Riland Medal for Community Advocacy from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2009. He currently serves in an advisory capacity for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program and the American Dental Education Association’s Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education.  
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This instructor has taught:
Creating and Sustaining a Climate of Inclusion

Sukari Pinnock is an Organization Development practitioner, specializing in Team Building, Leadership Development, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice Work, and Leadership Coaching. She is also a member of the teaching team for the Masters of Organization Development program at the American University (AU/NTL) where she serves as both a Learning Community Facilitator and a Practicum Advisor. She is an experienced trainer of Diversity and Inclusion workshops and training programs, specializing in cultural competence, mental models and dynamics of inclusion. Pinnock serves as the Steward of the NTL Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice Community of Practice.
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This instructor has taught:
Theories of Diversity and Inclusion

Dori Ramsey is the Director of Organization and Employee Development at Washington Gas. In this role she is responsible for directing the talent management strategies, including leadership development, knowledge management, succession planning, career planning, performance management, workforce planning and development, and change management initiatives.
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This instructor has taught:
Talent Management and Career Management

Monica Sagrario is the CEO and founder of RiverLeaf Consulting, a small management and technology consulting firm serving federal and commercial clients. Ms. Sagrario has over 15 years in the field of Operations, HR Management, Resource Management, Mergers & Acquisitions and Training. She also has extensive client service experience in managing technology implementations, leading large enterprise system integrations and solutions implementations across a variety of industry sectors. She has lead deployments of CRM, Access Management and Identity and Access Management solutions for large clients in the telecommunications and financial industry. 
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This instructor has taught:
Data Analysis and Decision Making

Charles Spearman, JD is the founder and principal of Tucker Spearman and Associates, Inc., an EEO and Inclusion management company.  Charles specializes in organizational and executive leadership in compliance and inclusion management.  He designs and delivers training on investigations, harassment and compliance and conducts internal investigations. A frequent speaker before industry leaders on compliance trends, Charles has been quoted by Time magazine and is a presenter at EEOC TAPS programs for public and private sector officials in designing EEO compliance programs. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, universities, and medium sized enterprises in the securities and finance industry. Charles is a founding and current board member of the Alliance of Securities and Financial Educators (ASAFE), an alliance of volunteers that facilitates and provides design and delivery of securities and finance curriculum to diverse student and faculty audiences. Charles served as a senior advisor to a Commissioner at the EEOC and to leaders at the Texas Department of Commerce and the US Department of Commerce. Charles previously taught at Cornell University's Industrial and Labor Relations School.  He has a BA from Howard University and a JD from Texas Southern University School of Law.
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This instructor has taught:
Strategic Diagnosis and Planning in Diversity and Inclusion
Creating and Sustaining a Climate of Inclusion