1. STEVEN J. GREENBLATT, Esq.
Admitted to the New York State Bar
sgreenblatt50@yahoo.com 516-302-5419
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SKILLS:
 Creator and presenter of innovative enterprise-driven organizational training and interventions
 Embraced philosophy of Completed Staff Work to define project management and investigative
reports, ensuring self-accountability
 Accomplished trial, appellate, hearing advocate, investigator, legal researcher,writer, ombudsman,
public speaker
 Re-engagement of employees through their psychological contracts
 Identified and developed non-trainers to present training and serve as internal champions
 Forestalled lawsuits and grievances based on evenhanded conciliation and earned trust
Professional Experience
Director, Workforce Training and Development 2002 - 2015
Additional Part-Time Duties:
Ethics Officer 2014 - 2015
Temporary Employment Counsel 2009 - 2010
Acting Affirmative Action Officer 2002 - 2008
S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center
Create unique training designed to restore or maintain organizational health and vitality:
 New Supervisor’s Orientation
 21st
Century Leadership Skills
 Communication and Counseling Skills
 Ethics in the Workplace
 Violence Prevention
 Performance Management
 “Cultural Sensitivity and Customer Service”
 “Respect in the Workplace: It’s Not Just About Sexual Harassment”
 “The Road to Employee Engagement: The Psychological Contract”: Practical tools change the employer-
employee conversation,providing virtually cost-free solutions to employee disengagement in trying fiscal times
Separate responsibilities focused on recognizing and resolving organizational problems:
 Facilitate resolution of workplace conflict, reducing grievances and strife
 Spearhead Employee Satisfaction Initiative
 Create outplacement program for 700 employees
Director, Labor Relations 1987 - 2002
Ethics Officer
Part-Time Dutiesin addition to serving asDirector of Labor Relations:
Director, Affirmative Action and Supervisory Training 1996 - 2002
S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center
Established collegial relations with all eight collective bargaining units
Created cutting-edge policies in time and attendance, sexual harassment, discrimination and discipline
Negotiated creative disciplinary outcomes to safeguard the best interests of the patients and the institution
Reduced fraud in the administration of Time and Attendance, Ethics, Workers Compensation
Prevailed in every employment claim in state and federal courts, EEOC and Division of Human Rights
Initiated Leadership and Ethics training and communication; resolved several notable cases of unethical practices
Set New York State precedent through recognition of supremacy of patient rights over arbitrator’simprovident exercise of
discretion – David Young v. S.U.N.Y., 566 N.Y.S.2d 79 (1991)
Significantly reduced arbitrations and grievances
Pro Bono Arbitrator - NYC Small Claims Court

2. Deputy Inspector General/Department Advocate
New York City Department of Sanitation 1983 - 1987
Restructured presentation of trials to streamline disciplinary system of over 4,000 cases annually
Reduced fraud in time and attendance, substance abuse, sexual harassment, workers compensation
Crafted training for all new supervisors and employees, resulting in decrease of disciplinary complaints
Created novel training program for attorneys and investigators
Director, Criminal Justice Appellate Reference Service
New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services 1982 - 1983
Appellate Counsel to district attorneys in twenty-three counties in the Third and Fourth Departments
Editor of primary legal resource for state prosecutors, monthly Criminal Law Review
Mounted mandatory weeklong training conferences for new prosecutors statewide
Law Secretary to the Administrative Judge
Supreme Court, Bronx County, Criminal Term
New York State Office of Court Administration 1980 - 1982
Managed personnel and operational matters; reduced vast court backlog
Drafted decisions for Administrative Judge
Advised judges, law secretaries and attorneys
Assistant District Attorney/Trial Supervisor 1976 - 1980
Bronx County District Attorney’s Office
Supreme Court, Appeals Bureaus
Tried felony cases; defense witness confessed to perjuring herself on the stand
Wrote and orally argued appeals in federal and state courts
Supervised and trained appellate attorneys in investigative and trial techniques
Managed trial calendar by ensuring ready cases as Trial Supervisor of 16 appellate attorneys
Education
LL.M. in Labor Law New York University Law School 1981
J.D. cum laude New York Law School 1976
Associate Editor, Law Review
B.A. cum laude Brooklyn College 1971
Awards Received
Bridge-Builder Award: Employee Satisfaction and Engagement Initiative
Fennell Award for Excellence in Training, NYS Training Council, NYC Chapter
NYS/CSEA Labor Management Award for Quality of Work Life
Stockman and American Jurisprudence Awards in Evidence
Full scholarship to NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Recent Published Papers
“Teaching ‘Business Ethics’ as a Sequitur”, 5 Ethics in Biology, Engineering & Medicine: An International Journal 207-47
(2014); abstract at http://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/6ed509641f7324e6,forthcoming,12524.html
Authored chapter on Employment in Risk Management in Healthcare Institutions,F. Kavaler,Ed., Jones & Bartlett Learning,
2012, pp. 61-95. http://samples.jbpub.com/9781449645656/45656_CH03_Kavalar.pdf
Consulting
Presenter
Three-day program, “Managing People”, for Penn State University School of Labor and Employment Relations
Principal, Carpe Diem Associates
Training in Leadership, Counseling, Communication, Cultural Diversity, Respect in the Workplace;
Employee Engagement; Policy Development; Investigations; Arbitration Advocacy
Steven J. Greenblatt, Esq.
516-302-5419
sgreenblatt50@yahoo.com
www.linkedin.com/in/StevenGreenblatt