John A. De Groot, Jr.
A nationally recognized authority on resolving complex work force issues, Mr. De Groot has more than 25 years of human resource and labor relations experience and understanding from the perspectives of both labor and management. He provides practical guidance and leadership, rather than theoretical advice, when creating strategies that improve organizational effectiveness, streamline operations, and respond to a union's organizing drive. His nationwide client base includes Fortune 100 and 500 firms, as well smaller emerging organizations experiencing rapid change or growth. Mr. De Groot has been a featured speaker at numerous conferences and conventions, is a frequent guest speaker to college and university classes and community service organizations, and has published numerous HR and labor relations-related articles.

Garry L. Gooding
Mr. Gooding has been providing human resources consulting services for more than 30 years to clients and organizations nationwide. While his services span critical people practice issues such as management development, executive recruitment, compensation and benefit design, labor negotiation, union avoidance, and staff training and development, Mr. Gooding specializes in assisting organizations with addressing the consequences of disruptive events such as reorganizing, union activities, downsizing, and unexpected or exceptional growth. A firm believer in measuring the success of an assignment in both the results achieved and the quality of the relationship maintained, Mr. Gooding's efforts have consistently been noted as high energy, innovative, resourceful, result-oriented, time sensitive, and cost-effective.

Bernard J. Lishinsky
Mr. Lishinsky has spent more than 35 years in the labor relations field working with Fortune 500 clients, emerging businesses, and government agencies. Mr. Lishinsky, a union-free expert who has had experience with almost every North American international union, specializes in collective bargaining, conducting union vulnerability audits, training management on NLRA law and procedures, and strategizing union avoidance techniques. An active member of the University of Pennsylvania 's Wharton School Industrial Relations Advisory Group, he has lectured for the American Association of Industrial Management and has been a labor law instructor of at New York Institute of Technology.

Patrick Grossi
Patrick Grossi has more than 25 years of diverse Human Resource consulting experience, including conducting leadership and employee relations assessments, determining an organization's vulnerability to unionization, and developing state-of-the-art compensation and benefit programs. Clients nationwide tap Mr. Grossi's guiding leadership to implement major culture, policy, procedure, and practice changes. As well, he has conducted numerous union avoidance campaigns including card signing mitigation campaigns.