About
So Who is Behind EthicalWorkforce.com?
EthicalWorkforce.com is brought to you by 360training.com, global leaders in compliance and workforce training. Since 1997, we’ve been helping individual consumers, colleges and the corporate enterprise change their behavior, learn new concepts and comply with government regulations. We’ve served over 3 million learners directly and through our network of corporate and training partners.
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Team
Ryan W. Gertz
Vice President of Ethics and Compliance
Ryan has spent his career working with General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officers, and other Senior Executives to implement best practices and key insights across the legal compliance audit and human resource function. Ryan has spent much of his time helping senior executives demonstrate that ethics and compliance can be much more effective if it goes beyond meeting minimum requirements and instead diffuses culture and heightens employee engagement for increased productivity. Ryan received his law degree from the University of Houston, a Masters Degree in Political Ethics from George Washington University, and a Bachelors Degree from the University of Texas at Austin. In law school Ryan was the Editor of the Consumer Law Journal and is published on topics ranging from Consumer Law and Constitutional Law to Presidential Ethics.
Janiece Attal, JD
Director of Production
Janiece is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and Member of the State Bar of Texas. As Director of Production for 360training.com, Janiece manages the end-to-end process for content origination, subject matter expertise recruitment and courseware delivery for the company’s ethics and compliance division and beyond. Prior to joining 360training.com, Janiece worked in Contract and Litigation Law, was Co-Founder/Director of the American-Mediterranean Council, and Managing Editor of the Texas Journal of Business Law.
Dr. Tom Sechrest
Ethics Advisor and Subject Matter Expert
Director of Science in Organizational Leadership and Ethics Program St. Edward’s University
Tom Sechrest is currently Director of the MSOLE program at St. Edward’s University. After receiving degrees in psychology and education, Sechrest spent the first years of his career as an entrepreneur in educational & industrial television, creating training films, commercials, music videos and documentaries. One of his clients was the United States Department of Labor, which hired him to produce television work for them. While in public service, he had both regional and national responsibilities for leadership and management assessment and development as well as policy formulation and organizational effectiveness. In mid-career, Sechrest began doctoral study in Human Resource Development at The University of Texas at Austin, which at the time had the #1-ranked program in the country. While at UT, Sechrest was a research assistant and coordinated international continuing education conferences, managing large events in the U.S., Germany, England, Egypt, Israel and Russia.
Prior to joining St. Edward’s, Tom worked Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the mid-1990s, where he worked in learning & development as well as corporate leadership & succession planning, and helped craft the global leadership competency model still in use at AMD.
