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About

Cheryl Poinsette Brown

Cheryl Poinsette Brownis an attorney and human resources consultant providing custom solutions and advice to individuals, managers and organization leaders in private industry, government, education institutions and non-profit organizations. She also facilitates conflict resolution in disputes from early to late stage, whether at a claims stage or where parties are already engaged in litigation.

Cheryl’s early career was as a California attorney, first in private practice with a major law firm, then with a city attorney’s office and finally in a corporate legal department, all as litigation counsel. Later, she moved into corporate human resources, eventually becoming an SVP responsible for all manner of functions and initiatives, including:

  • Managing the human resource function supporting 12,000 employees with a 20-member staff
  • Creating and managing organizational change initiatives including for leadership and career development, EEO and employee relations, sexual harassment prevention, organization development, in-house training and project management
  • Leading strategic planning regarding human capital
  • Corporate wide employee survey and response planning
  • Building C-suite support for and implementation of corporate wide diversity training
  • Designing and leading implementation of company restructure following two major acquisitions, including assessments, voluntary retirement programs, sales force redesign and retraining.

Later, following a relocation to Atlanta, Georgia Cheryl established her mediation and consulting practice in 2006, joined the Georgia Bar in 2009 and began providing:

  • Team building, individual skill building and management training
  • Strategic planning and change management initiatives
  • Coaching to individuals facing difficult work situations
  • Mediation of disputes
  • Fact-finding and claims investigations
  • Custom designed training for meeting management, project and team facilitation, difficult work conversations, conflict and performance management.

EDUCATION

Cheryl is a graduate of Harvard Law School, with an undergraduate B.A. degree from Howard University. She also has certifications in Workplace Conflict Management & Alternate Dispute Resolution from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and for Advanced Executive Human Resources from the University of Michigan.

Cheryl remains a member of the Bar of California and Bar of Georgia. These days, she resides in Denver, Colorado where she is looking forward to continuing her evolving career, enjoying empty nester life and travel with her husband and two adult children and finding new, meaningful community connections.