Ronald Adler

Ronald Adler is the president-CEO of Laurdan Associates, Inc., a veteran owned, human resources management consulting firm specializing in HR audits, employment practices liability risk management, HR metrics and benchmarking, strategic HR, and unemployment insurance cost management. 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 is the developer the Employment-Labor Law Audit™ (ELLA®), the nation’s 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 master’s level course on HR auditing. Mr. Adler is a frequent author and regularly conducts webinars and seminars on HR management and workplace issues.

Mr. Adler has represented Maryland employers on the state’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) Oversight Committee, and previously served as an appointee to the State of Maryland’s UI Funding Task Force and UI Advisory Committee. Mr. Adler has also served as a moderator at the State of Maryland’s Annual Human Relations Conference and at the state’s Annual Small Business Conference.

Mr. Adler has assisted Congress and state legislatures develop employment and UI related legislation and has testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on unemployment insurance and the U.S. Senate H.E.L.P. Committee on genetic discrimination in the workplace. Mr. Adler has also served as an expert witness in discrimination and negligent hiring cases.

Mr. Adler is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), has served as a subject matter expert to SHRM on HR metrics, formerly served on SHRM’s Human Capital Measurement/HR Metrics Special Expertise Panel, has served as a consulting expert on workplace issues to SHRM’s legislative staff, and has represented SHRM in meetings with the EEOC.

Mr. Adler served as a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and served on taskforces developing professional standards in human capital measurement and performance management.

Mr. Adler has a degree in Finance from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University.