Ronald Adler
Human Resource Consultant
Ronald Adler is a consulting expert on work force, employment practices, and unemployment insurance issues to The Wall Street Journal, HR Magazine, and other publications and newspapers across the country.
Adler is a consulting expert on work force, employment practices, and unemployment insurance issues to The Wall Street Journal, HR Magazine, and other publications and newspapers across the country. His research findings have been used by the 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 a co-developer of the Employment-Labor Law Audit™ (ELLA®), the nation’s leading HR auditing and employment practices risk assessment tool, and is a frequent lecturer and author on HR management and workplace issues.
As an adjunct professor, Adler teaches a course on HR auditing in Villanova University’s Graduate Program in Human Resources Development. He is also a certified instructor on employment practices and insurance issues for The CPCU Society, has conducted sexual harassment training programs as an adjunct instructor for the Baltimore City Community College, 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 SHRM, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the Institute of Management Consultants.
Ronald Adler is the president and CEO of Laurdan Associates, a veteran-owned, human resource management consulting firm in Potomac, Md., specializing in HR audits, employment practices liability risk management, benchmarking and HR metrics, strategic HR, employee surveys, and unemployment insurance management issues. Mr. Adler has more than 38 years of HR consulting experience working with U.S. and international firms, small businesses and non-profits, insurance companies and brokers, and employer organizations.