Dr. Susan Strauss

All organizations and college campuses are required to follow Title IX to ensure fair handling of all harassment complaints. That includes conducting a fair, impartial, and comprehensive investigation into any incident. Equip yourself and ...

Implicit, or unconscious bias, exists in society and in the workplace. When it occurs in healthcare, it can be dangerous in compromising the quality of care we give to patients.  What does it look like?  How can a provider and healthcare or ...

Sexual violence, including harassment and rape, often goes underreported on university and college campuses. But even when higher education institutions are informed of sexual misconduct, they too often fail to abide by Title IX and the Cle ...

From the length of one’s hair, to the number and location of visible tattoos, to recognizing gender non-conformity style, to creating a summer dress code, employers are facing an increased need to determine their organization’s culture and policie ...

Are women really each other’s worse enemy or is it just a myth and a stereotype? What does the research show about women’s hostility to other women, sometimes called bullying, in the workplace? Bullying is a learned behavior that gets fine-tuned d ...

From the length of one’s hair, to the number and location of visible tattoos, to recognizing gender non-conformity style, to creating a summer dress code, employers are facing an increased need to determine their organization’s culture and policie ...

Nurse to nurse bullying threatens the safety and well-being of patients and nurses. The misconduct is a major problem to all nurses and causing 60% of new nurses to leave their first nursing position and 1 in 3 nurses to quit the profession. Somet ...

Whether you call it Onboarding, Induction, Enculturation, or New Employee Orientation (NEO), the process used to welcome and train your new employees while capturing their excitement of a new job and reducing their new job jitters is critical to t ...

More and more organizations are “going virtual,” whether it is an employee who telecommutes, a team of workers in another country, or simply an employee who extends her or his workday by checking e-mail or downloading a document from Dropbox that ...

Healthcare providers such as hospitals, clinics, physicians, community health centers, nursing homes, home care agencies,  health insurance companies (including those found in the Health Insurance Marketplaces), and any other “covered entities” wh ...