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A Special Treat for NOARK Members in July

For the past several years, Arthur T. Matthews, J.D., NOARK member and visiting professor at the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business, has opened one class session of each of his summer classes to HR professionals to sit side-by-side with his university students to learn, network and earn professional development credits.  This year is no exception!  Except… This year, Professor Matthews is inviting NOARK members to join as his guests. The only catch? The size of the classroom.  Therefore, this invitation is open to the first fifteen HR professionals to register.

Organizational Change: Navigating the Peaks and Valleys with a Introduction to a Leadership Playbook

2:00-5:15pm at the Sam M. Walton College of Business; room TBA

Leading change requires competency in both leadership and navigation.  Today’s HR professionals, especially those in advanced roles, find themselves working with senior organizational leadership on strategic change initiatives.  This class will incorporate a case study, lecture, and small group exercises around the skills required to deal with the ebb and flow of change within organizations. Participants will learn leadership strategies that are immediately actionable as well as skills for dealing with the nuances of organizational change.

Hot topics such as micro-inequities, bullying, safety and health and downsizing, rightsizing and capsizing employees will be addressed. 

Following this class, participants will be able to:

• Competently apply leadership and navigation behaviors to organizational change,
• Partner with organizational leaders to ensure effective change agency.
• Develop strategies for dealing with micro-inequities, bullying, safety and health and downsizing, rightsizing and capsizing employees.

SPEAKER:  

Arthur T. Matthews J.D is the Chief Operating Officer and principal partner of Matthews & Matthews Consulting aka diversityofficers.com www.diversityofficers.com which is a boutique firm specializing in divergent aspects of labor, human capital, organizational change and the workforce. His clients are primarily government entities, unions, and non for profit organizations. He currently serves on the faculty at NYU, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the University of Arkansas. He teaches workshop, seminar, certificate, boot camp, undergraduate, MPA and MBA courses in areas such as conflict resolution, labor & politics, communications, organizational change, human & civil rights, negotiations, mediation, arbitration, labor-management cooperation, bullying, diversity & inclusion, leadership, public speaking and ethics. Some of his clients include or have included the Cisneros Center for New Americans, City Harvest, the Ronald H. Brown Foundation, Levi Strauss, the Laborers International Union, the Communications Workers of America and the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas. His government clients include the EEOC, the U.S Department of Veteran Affairs, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Center for Disease Control and the Federal Executive Board. Recently he was a Guest Lecturer at the Clinton School of Public Service and as a result, the School asked appointed him to their faculty during the 2016 academic year. He will be teaching mediation. Early in his career Arthur was featured on a CNN Special as a positive role model and consistently serves as a motivational speaker. He was a Congressional and Assembly aide and earned his Juris doctor (J.D) degree from Howard University School of Law where he was elected the President of the Student Bar Association. In was in this capacity that he led hundreds of law students in the march that helped enact MLK Day as a national holiday. Moreover he proudly hosted one of the last public appearances of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He obtained his undergraduate degree with honors from C.W Post College, Long Is NCAA football scholarship. He is a life member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.