Event Details

As Northern Virginia looks to reopen on 5/29, Return to Work is top of mind for many organizations. This is a complex subject and requires careful consideration across many disciplines of Human Resources. Join us and our panel of experts at 4:00 PM on Thursday as they share their viewpoints and answer questions from the group.

We will cover topics including:

• Compliance
• Engagement
• Communications
• Physical Space and Design

Panelists

Adam Calli

Adam Calli, MSM, SHRM-SCP, is a 20- plus year HR veteran and the Principal Consultant and Founder of Arc Human Capital, LLC, an HR consulting and outsourcing firm which focuses on helping organizations reap the rewards of modern HR practices while meeting their compliance mandates.

Primarily focusing on small- to medium-size businesses, he enjoys seeing how well-run HR can have a positive, strategic impact on a company. When not consulting he’s an HR instructor for George Mason University’s Executive and Professional Education program and is one of only 41 active instructors nationwide for the Society for Human Resources Management.

Kamran Riazi

Beginning his career as the creative director of a multi-media company and transforming himself into a true design consultant, Kamran uses his command of the design process to imagine possible futures and translate those ideas into actionable, valuable, concepts and products.

With the introduction of IOE®, Kamran has applied our process and design thinking to a variety of opportunities – from the redesign of a sales process and transforming it into a physical solution for a large defense contractor, to the creation of a design guide/manual for an electronics company, to the operating environment design for a large non-profit headquarters that transformed how they work – all with measurable results!

Kamran is also an innovator in the change management world. He pioneered OPX’s proprietary change management process called Transformation Leadership™, which builds upon the data generated by the IOE® process to methodically harness the energy leading to an organization’s impending paradigm shift. The process is designed to ensure everyone within the organization is aware of how they can and should work differently in order to make the project a success and deliver on the company’s strategy.

Most recently, Kamran has introduced OPX’s ReEntry service addressing current market needs and concerns and helping organizations determine what their specific reentry to the workplace looks like.

Since joining OPX in 1996, Kamran has designed offices, hotels, restaurants, commercial products, graphics, and processes. He serves on the OPX Leadership Committee and is instrumental in guiding OPX’s future as well as being a strong mentor and resource.

Matthew Nieman

Mr. Nieman represents employers in a broad spectrum of labor and employment law matters, including discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour, whistleblower claims (including Dodd-Frank, the False Claims Act, and Sarbanes-Oxley), questions related to the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), and workplace drug-testing issues. He is actively involved in all phases of the litigation process on the full range of employment discrimination and employment-related tort and contract claims, including the representation of employers in actions before the Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and various state and local agencies.

As part of his litigation practice, he has concluded many employment-related adversarial proceedings, including solo trials and multiple jury trial defense-verdicts. He has additionally drafted numerous successful dispositive and summary judgment motions in state and federal courts throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, including a summary judgment victory in the United States District for Maryland on a Sarbanes-Oxley claim.

Mr. Nieman is a frequent writer on substance-abuse-prevention topics. He also speaks to and provides training to employer groups on various workplace-related topics, including sexual harassment, discrimination, substance-abuse prevention, and litigation avoidance

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Nieman was in public service as an active-duty U.S. Army Judge Advocate (JAG) at Fort Benning, Georgia and at Camp Liberty, Baghdad, Iraq. During his service as an Army JAG, Mr. Nieman enjoyed unique opportunities to interact with state and local governments in both the criminal and civil arenas as well as to develop trial experience. These opportunities include two years as a prosecutor in both military and federal courts (concluding over 40 separate trials) and over a year of responsibility for handling all tort claims filed against Fort Benning, its hospital, and other Department of the Army personnel in a region covering large portions of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Tort claim issues covered include general negligence, medical malpractice, and the subrogation and collection of TRICARE expenses incurred by service members, retirees and their dependents in otherwise unrelated tort actions.

Mr. Nieman received a commission as a Distinguished Military Graduate of the U.S. Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. He clerked for the Williamsburg/James City County, Virginia Commonwealth Attorney’s Office throughout law school.