In Canada, legal awards for workplace human rights mistakes won't (usually) cost you a million dollars. But when you add up the legal bills, the investigation time for employees and senior managers, the unproductive divisiveness as people take sides, and the bad public relations, it starts adding up.

If you're not careful, simple mistakes can turn into giant headaches, banner headlines, and damaging fees.  Lawyer-turned-workplace human rights expert, Stephen Hammond will help your workplace learn from the costly mistakes of others and learn the very positive and simple approaches you can take.

Leaders at work and the community.  Perhaps you’re not worried about the banner headlines across national newspapers; after all how often does that happen?  But you’ll be amazed how many things you’ll learn by listening to Stephen’s insight on simple impact of words.

Stephen’s powerful examples will let you realize it’s not just what you say, but how you say it.  The racist, sexist and homophobic slurs are mostly gone from the vocabulary of thinking people, but the subtle stuff still seems to catch people off-guard and they are causing expensive disasters.  Learn to avoid them.

“You were able to bring our management group up to speed on important issues that they otherwise might not have considered and you did so in a way that caught people’s attention.  Our managers went back to their workplaces better informed and better prepared.  Your style and manner in addressing the issues within the room were very effective and we felt much more prepared to understand and be mindful of the risks in these extremely important areas of our business after your presentation.”

Peter Blake,
CEO,
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers

Stephen Hammond, B.A., LL.B., CSP, is a lawyer turned workplace and community human rights speaker and educator.  His Bachelor of Arts in political studies is from the University of Manitoba and his Bachelor of Laws degree is from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.  Stephen is the author of Managing Human Rights at Work: 101 practical tips to prevent human rights disasters and Steps in the Rights Direction: 365 human rights celebrations and tragedies that inspired Canada and the world.

Stephen is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and the International Federation for Professional Speakers. In 2008 Stephen was one of only 5 Canadians to receive the designation of CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) which is the “most prestigious earned designation for platform excellence” by the International Federation. Fewer than 10% of the Federation members hold this designation including just 43 Canadians.

Stephen Hammond: motivational, business keynote speaker in Canada, highlights about human rights disasters prevention