2-Hour Virtual Seminar on HR Risk Management : Compliance, Strategies, Challenges, and the Future of Workplace Safety

Organizations today face a widening range of people-related risks-from wage and hour exposure, documentation failures, and employee relations issues to burnout, workplace violence concerns, evolving safety expectations, and the growing impact of technology on how work is managed.

This timely and practical seminar gives HR professionals and organizational leaders a clear roadmap for understanding, assessing, and responding to HR risk in 2026. Participants will learn how to strengthen compliance practices, align HR and safety strategies, anticipate emerging workforce challenges, and build a more resilient organization that protects its people, its culture, and its business performance. Filled with practical guidance, real-world examples, and forward-looking insights, this seminar is designed to help attendees leave with concrete steps they can apply immediately.

By participating, you will:

Understand the broad range of HR risks affecting organizations in 2026, including compliance, employee relations, operational, reputational, and workplace safety risks
Recognize how HR, finance, legal, operations, and safety functions must work together to identify and reduce workforce-related exposure
Strengthen your ability to evaluate HR policies, documentation, training, and internal practices for compliance gaps and hidden vulnerabilities
Learn practical strategies for reducing risk related to hiring, onboarding, performance management, discipline, leave administration, pay practices, and termination decisions
Identify emerging workplace safety issues, including psychosocial risk, remote and hybrid work considerations, and preparedness for crisis situations
Explore how data, analytics, and technology can support better HR risk monitoring, decision-making, and prevention efforts
Leave with an actionable framework for building a more proactive, prevention-focused HR risk management strategy

Why should you Attend

Would you like to understand the broad range of HR risks affecting organizations in 2026, including compliance, employee relations, operational, reputational, and workplace safety risks?
What about strengthening your ability to evaluate HR policies, documentation, training, and internal practices for compliance gaps and hidden vulnerabilities?
Would it help to leave with an actionable framework for building a more proactive, prevention-focused HR risk management strategy?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany helps us improve performance!

Areas Covered in the Session

Opening Segment: Why HR Risk Management Matters More Than Ever (10 minutes)
- The expanding definition of workplace risk in 2026
- How unmanaged HR risk affects cost, culture, productivity, retention, and reputation
- The connection between prevention, leadership judgment, and organizational resilience
Section 1: Compliance Foundations and High-Risk HR Exposure Areas (25 minutes)
- Wage and hour issues, classification errors, recordkeeping, and documentation
- Anti-discrimination, harassment prevention, accommodation, leave, and retaliation risks
- Policy consistency, manager decision-making, and the importance of defensible processes
Section 2: Strategic HR Risk Management in Practice (25 minutes)
- Risk points across the employee lifecycle: recruiting, onboarding, development, discipline, and separation
- Building stronger internal controls, escalation protocols, and audit habits
- How HR can partner with finance, legal, and operations to reduce organizational exposure
Section 3: Challenges in Workplace Safety and Workforce Well-Being (25 minutes)
- Traditional safety issues and the increasing importance of psychological safety and mental well-being
- Remote, hybrid, and field-based work challenges
- Violence prevention, crisis readiness, incident response, and post-incident follow-up
Section 4: The Future of Workplace Safety, Analytics, and Emerging Risks (15 minutes)
- How workforce data and analytics can reveal patterns before problems escalate
- Technology, AI, and digital systems in compliance monitoring and safety communication
- Emerging risks leaders should watch in 2026 and beyond
Closing Segment: Practical Action Steps and Leadership Priorities (10 minutes)
- A practical checklist for assessing your organization’s current HR risk posture
- Priority actions to strengthen compliance, reduce safety exposure, and improve accountability
- How to move from reactive response to proactive prevention
Q&A (10 minutes)
- Audience questions, clarifications, and discussion of practical application points

Who Will Benefit

Speaker Profile

Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.

He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.

He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.

He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.

Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.

He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.

Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.