Stephen M. Paskoff, Esq.

Stephen M. Paskoff, Esq., is the founder and President of ELI®, a training company that teaches professional workplace conduct, helping clients translate their values into behaviors, increase employee contribution, build respectful and inclusive cultures, and reduce legal and ethical risk. Over the years, he has worked with numerous nationally known industry leaders to help them communicate standards of proper legal and ethical behavior along with their companies’ own missions and policies in order to build productive, civil workplaces. He pioneered the development of interactive, model-driven training that addresses fair employment issues by providing practical skills people can apply every day at work.

Paskoff, who was the founding co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Compliance Training and Communication Committee, currently serves on the Editorial Board for Workforce Management Magazine. He speaks nationally on a full range of workplace legal and cultural issues and consistently ranks among the highest-rated speakers at events where he presents. Additionally, he has written extensively and been interviewed widely by numerous national media outlets on workplace professionalism, legal trends, and changing on-the-job behavior to align with organizational values. He is also the author of the book Teaching Big Shots to Behave and Other Human Resource Challenges.

Prior to establishing ELI in 1986, Paskoff was a trial attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a partner in a management law firm. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and is a member of the Pennsylvania and Georgia bars.