Gayle Wasserman is a co-founder of Impact Workplace Training, LLC, where she develops and delivers workplace training programs for employees, managers, executives and HR professionals on a variety of current and critical workplace issues, such as harassment and discrimination prevention and respectful workplace conduct. She also designs programs about effective workplace communication, performance management and employee relations issues, and managerial best practices.  Gayle also focuses on ‘training the trainer’, supporting HR in critical competencies, such as hiring, investigation processes and disciplinary practices. She regularly conducts individual coaching and training for managers and executives needing additional behavioral support and guidance to succeed within their organization.  Gayle leverages her many years as an employment attorney and human resources and employee relations consultant to design course content that engages participants to think and talk about workplace issues and expectations in meaningful and interesting ways. Gayle has conducted hundreds of training sessions (both live and on Zoom), and her clients include, for example, media and publishing companies, professional services and financial services firms, and healthcare and nonprofit organizations.
Gayle also currently serves as a Professional Programs Educator with Cornell University ILR School’s Scheinman Institute, where she regularly teaches several classes on best practices for conducting workplace investigations, as well focusing in other classes on employment law and HR law compliance, harassment prevention, collaborative problem solving and effective employee relations. These programs teach HR professionals, managers and others with employee relations responsibilities the practical tools and methodologies necessary for successfully approaching workplace issues.
Additionally, Gayle is the principal of Wasserman Law LLP, where she focuses on conducting thorough and objective complex workplace investigations into allegations of workplace misconduct and internal employee complaints. Gayle also regularly counsels clients on a variety of employment and workplace matters and develops human resource practices and policies that reflect organizational values.   In all her work, Gayle’s focus is on preventing inappropriate behavior in the workplace and helping her clients to minimize their exposure to employee claims by creating and implementing policies that further those goals.
Gayle began her career as an associate in the Labor and Employment Department of Proskauer Rose LLP, one of the nation’s leading labor and employment law firms, and subsequently practiced with Kauff McClain & McGuire LLP, a prominent boutique law firm in New York focused on the practice of labor and employment law.  At those firms, Gayle defended clients in numerous employment-related cases in federal and state courts and before federal and state agencies, and represented and counseled employers in all facets of employment law.  Gayle also previously served as an adjunct professor at Hunter College, where she taught undergraduate Business Law.   
Gayle earned her law degree from New York University School of Law, where she received the annual award for excellence in the study of labor relations.  While at NYU, Gayle was an editor and advocate on the Moot Court Board and was elected to the Order of the Barristers.  She received her undergraduate degree with honors in Organizational Studies from the University of Michigan.