Stephen Paskoff

Stephen M. Paskoff is the founder, president and CEO of ELI®, a learning and consulting company that teaches and advises on professional workplace conduct, helping clients translate their values into behaviors, increase employee contribution, build respectful and inclusive cultures, and reduce legal and ethical risk.

Mr. Paskoff is a nationally recognized speaker and author on improving business results through civility in the workplace. He has written extensively on how to affect culture change to build values and civility in an organization, thereby creating a business differentiator. Steve is the author of Civility Rules! A New Business Approach for Boosting Results and Cutting Risks and Teaching Big Shots to Behave and Other Human Resource Challenges.

He has been named the highest-ranking speaker at the national conference of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and has been selected to speak at a number of other national conferences including:

• The American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA)
• The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE)
• The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
• The Risk Management Foundation for the Harvard Medical Institutions
• The American Bar Association (ABA)

Mr. Paskoff and ELI® have appeared on or been interviewed by a variety of national media outlets, including: Forbes, Fortune, Fox News, ABC’s 20/20, New York Times, Inc. Magazine, CNBC, Corporate Legal Times, HR Executive Magazine, Industry Week, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Training Magazine, and Workforce Management.

Prior to establishing ELI® in 1986, Mr. 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.