Ronald Adler

RONALD ADLER, M.B.A., is the president-CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a human resource management consulting firm and internationally recognized thought leader on HR risk management and HR audits. Mr. Adler has more than 45 years of HR consulting experience working with U.S. and international firms, small businesses and non-profits, insurance companies and brokers, and employer organizations.

Mr. Adler has served as a consulting expert on work force, employment practices, and unemployment insurance issues to The Wall Street Journal, HR Magazine, Bloomberg BNA, and other publications and newspapers. His research findings have been used by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Federation of Independent Business, insurers, and international organizations.

Mr. Adler is the developer of the Employment-Labor Law Audit™ (ELLA®), the leading HR auditing and employment practices liability risk assessment tool — now in the tenth edition.

Mr. Adler has served as an adjunct professor at Villanova University, where he taught a graduate course on HR auditing. He has also served as a certified instructor on employment practices and insurance issues for The CPCU Society, has conducted continuing professional education courses for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants on “Assessing Employment and Personnel Policies,” and has conducted continuing professional education courses for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the Institute of Management Consultants.

Mr. Adler has testified before the U.S. Congress and state legislatures and has served as an expert witness in discrimination and negligent hiring lawsuits. Mr. Adler has served on two national taskforces developing HR professional standards in Human Capital Measurement and Performance Management.

Mr. Adler has served as a subject matter expert on HR metrics to SHRM and formerly served on SHRM’s Human Capital Measurement/HR Metrics Special Expertise Panel. He has also served as a consulting expert on workplace issues to SHRM’s legislative staff and has represented SHRM in meetings with the EEOC.

Mr. Adler holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. degree from Southern Illinois University.