Dec. 26, 2024
Steve Greenblatt, Esq.
Carpe Diem Associates https://Carpediemassoc.com
About The Lecturer
Steve Greenblatt brings over 40 years of human resource practice in employee relations, employee discipline, training and organizational development, Affirmative Action, conflict resolution, and contract and benefits administration. Prior to that, Steve served as Assistant District Attorney in Bronx County as an appellate attorney, trial attorney and Trial Supervisor; Law Secretary to the Administrative Judge, Supreme Court, Bronx County, Criminal Part, managing the courthouse; Appellate Counsel to District Attorneys in 23 New York State counties; and Deputy Inspector General for the NYC Department of Sanitation in charge of its disciplinary system. Steve has trained attorneys, investigators and human resource professionals in investigative, arbitration and trial techniques.
In human resources roles, while Director of Labor Relations, and Director of Workforce Training and Development at the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) Downstate Medical Center, he also served as Ethics Officer, Acting Affirmative Action Officer and Temporary Employment Counsel. As Training Director, Steve focused on enhancing leaders’ self-awareness, restoring organizational trust and vitality, and reducing implicit bias. Steve has litigated grievance and disciplinary arbitrations, mediated and resolved disputes, crafted policies and procedures and managed employee satisfaction, engagement and outplacement initiatives. He currently teaches online graduate and undergraduate courses for Pennsylvania State University in ethics for human resource practitioners, Employment Law and Relationships, and Diversity, and he conducts live and online training privately, as Principal of Carpe Diem Associates.
Steve currently does management consulting. His research interests focus on the impact of discrimination in the workplace, leadership, workplace civility, retaliation, bystanders, bullying, sexual harassment, employee engagement, risk management in employment, and ethics pedagogy. He publishes cutting-edge legal and management research.
You can reach him at [email protected]. Please call him Steve.
Practice Area(s)
Labor Law
Business & Professional Development
Publications
"Why I Feel Like a Fish Out of Water, or, Monachopsis”, 43-44 Employee Relations Law Journal (2017-18).
“Never Give Up!”, 48 Employee Relations Journal 1 (June 2022).
Education
B.A., Political Science, Brooklyn College
J.D., New York Law School
Master’s in Labor Law, New York University School of Law
