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Ronald Adler


Ronald Adler

Biography:

Ronald Adler is the president-CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a veteran-owned, human resource management consulting firm specializing in HR audits, employment practices liability risk management, HR metrics and benchmarking strategic HR-business issues and unemployment insurance issues.  Mr. Adler has more than 42 years of HR consulting experience working with U.S. and international firms, small businesses and non-profits, printers, insurance companies and brokers, and employer organizations.

Mr. Adler is the developer of the Employment-Labor Law Audit™ (ELLA®), the nation’s leading HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment tool—now in the tenth edition.

Mr. Adler has served as an adjunct professor at Villanova University’s Graduate Program in Human Resources Development and taught a course on HR auditing.  Mr. Adler has also served as a certified instructor for the CPCU Society and conducted courses on employment practices liabilities.

Mr. Adler served on two national taskforces developing professional standards in human capital measurement and performance management.

Mr. Adler has assisted Congress and state legislatures develop employment and unemployment insurance-related legislation, has testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on unemployment insurance, and the U.S. Senate H.E.L.P. Committee on genetic discrimination in the workplace.  Mr. Adler has also served as an expert witness in discrimination and negligent hiring cases.

Mr. Adler is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors.  Mr. Adler is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), has served as a subject matter expert (SME) to SHRM on HR metrics, formerly served on SHRM’s Human Capital Measurement/HR Metrics Special Expertise Panel, and has represented SHRM in meetings with the EEOC. 

Mr. Adler has a B.S. Degree in Finance from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University.