Denise Kay, Esq., SPHR has focused exclusively on human resource issues affecting the workplace throughout her career. Denise is an experienced trainer and investigator. As an EPS consultant, Denise provides training on the prevention of discrimination and harassment, conflict resolution, workplace violence, diversity, and management-employee relations for employees, managers, and executives of a wide variety of clients. She also provides sensitivity training and coaching for individual employees and functions as an expert witness in employment disputes. With respect to specific employee allegations, Denise investigates and reports on complaints relating to sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and other employee misconduct, and conducts mediation sessions arising out of those investigations.
Denise received her license to practice law from the State of Colorado after graduating, with honors, from the Georgia State University College of Law. She practiced exclusively in the area of employment and labor law with firm of Littler Mendelson, P.C. in Denver. As a litigation attorney, Denise worked with management in defending wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and contractual disputes. She is certified through the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), and she is a trained mediator. She has served as an instructor at the Keller Graduate School of Business of DeVry University teaching business law, employment law, and negotiation skills. She currently is the Community Coordinator for the Colorado Bar Association’s Domestic Violence: Make It Your Business Program. Denise also serves on the Board of the Society for Human Resource Management Colorado State Council as the Government Affairs Director and is an advisory board member of The Renewable Energy Initiative.
She obtained her undergraduate degree from Penn State University at University Park, Pennsylvania, concentrating in industrial psychology and organizational communications, and spent seven years with the public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) as a human resources generalist, regional human resources manager, and human resources client consultant in both Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Her employee relations and human resource management background includes such areas as performance management, compensation and benefits, human resource policy/procedure development, regulatory/compliance issues, process redesign, risk/control analysis, and succession planning. Denise joined EPS in 2000. |