|
News Room
10/03/2008
Shelly Freeman Collaborates with U.S. Delegation in China/U.S. Program
Shelly Freeman (HROI - Kansas City) will serve as a delegate along with a contingent of fellow business leaders and representatives from the Kansas City community as part of the Edgar Snow Symposium, an annual program that explores international business relations and Chinese-American relations. Ms. Freeman will help lead the October 16 panel discussion between U.S. and China delegates on entrepreneurship and small business.
The symposium is co-sponsored by the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, and will take place in China. This year's theme is "Exchange Cooperation - Advance Harmoniously." Ms. Freeman will add insights to other delegates and audience members regarding challenges that are unique to Western companies employing a workforce in China, and also HR issues that are unique to Chinese small businesses that may differ from challenges faced by American entrepreneurs.
Other Edgar Snow Symposium panelists have included China's ambassadors to the U.S., American ambassadors to China, international business executives and government leaders. The ten-day program offers American delegates a chance to experience the culture first-hand and to share knowledge about their respective areas of expertise with an international audience.
Ms. Freeman is the President of HROI, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lathrop & Gage LC. HROI counsels and consults with employers on the full range of human resource issues, conducts independent investigations and provides dispute resolution services for harassment, discrimination and other serious employee complaints, and develops and conducts management and supervisory training on HR-related topics for companies throughout the country. HROI's video training tapes, "The Workplace Training Series," were named by HR Executive Magazine as one of the Top Training Picks in 2003.
Ms. Freeman began law practice in 1988. Immediately prior to launching HROI in 2002, Ms. Freeman was the Director of Corporate and Field Human Resources for Payless Cashways, Inc. where she directed and supervised a full range of human resource functions for the manufacturing, distribution and retailing components of a 10,000+ employee workforce.
About Lathrop & Gage:
A leading Midwest full-service law firm, Lathrop & Gage L.C. has approximately 300 attorneys in 10 offices nationwide – from Denver, Colo. to New York, New York. In 2008, Chambers USA ranked Lathrop & Gage’s corporate, environmental, intellectual property, litigation, real estate and labor and employment teams among the best in the Midwest. For more information, visit www.lathropgage.com or www.beentherewonthat.com.
|
|