Mr.Don Phin

Area Of Expertise : Leadership and Management
35 Years Of Experience
Training Industry : Human Resources

Don Phin is a California employment law attorney. He has consulted with hundreds of companies to help improve their employment practices. He has presented over 600 times to CEOs, HR, and other executives on what works in employee relations. Don’s latest book is The 40| |40 Solution: Mastering the Emotional Energy of Leadership and Sales.

Don built HRThatWorks, used by 3,500 companies and sold to ThinkHR in 2014. In addition to consulting and speaking, Don does executive coaching and workplace investigations.

Originally a kid from the Bronx (you may still hear the accent), todayDon lives in sunny Coronado, California.

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Mastering the Emotional Energy of Great Leadership/Sales/Change

It’s hard to ignore today’s conversation around emotional intelligence. Studies show it is far more important to leadership success than having a high IQ. The term “emotional intelligence” implies the answer lies in the frontal lobe of the brain. It implies we ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Aug 04, 2025
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Managing the Emotions of Rapid Change 2025

In this engaging session, speaker and futurist Don Phin will walk attendees through the emotional terrain of rapid change. You’ll learn how to recognize common resistance reactions (the Victim, the Sheep, and the Champion), how to guide each of them, and how t ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 60 Mins
  • Aug 27, 2025
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AI and Human Resources: The Great Opportunity!

Understanding how artificial intelligence can help you to be more productive in your human resource role is an incredible growth opportunity for anyone who embraces this technology.

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 60 Mins
  • Sep 04, 2025
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Onboarding is NOT Orientation - How to Improve the New Employee Experience

How’s this for a fact: half of all employees are onboarded better than the other half! And then there are the companies in the top 10%. The Great Ones. The bottom line of every company is impacted by employee engagement and productivity…both of which are direc ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Sep 24, 2025
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What HR Must Know About Protecting Confidential Information

There is no doubt that people on the outside…and inside… of your company are looking to access critical confidential information. Some people simply mishandle and expose it. Failure to protect this information can result in lost customers and clients, regulato ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Oct 16, 2025
Live Webinar

AI's Impact on Human Resources

Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Rapidly transforming all aspects of running a business including human resources. AI has been embedded into everything from hiring applications, human resource information systems, surveying tools, and more. There is al ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 60 Mins
  • Oct 30, 2025
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Performance Management with Bottom-Line Results

Performance management approaches have evolved over time. Originally, they were very top-down, control-based approaches. Today’s approaches have changed dramatically. Control is dead, and in its place is what I call engaged collaboration. That requires clarity ...

  • Basic & Advanced
  • 60 Mins
  • Nov 06, 2025
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Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace

With rapid change comes an incredible leadership challenge. Not just to respond to change …but to be the change. To do that requires creativity and innovation. Creativity happens at every level of the organization and with every person. In this engaging progra ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Nov 25, 2025
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Legal Challenges Working with Remote Employees

The unique exposures related to the remote work environment involved wage and hour compliance, disability accommodation, business expense reimbursement, jurisdictional issues relating to non-competes and other contracts, safety and security concerns, and much ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Dec 02, 2025
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Coaching at Work- Improving Employee Engagement and Performance

Difficulty attracting employees, difficulty engaging employees, remote employees, turnover, claims, and brand damage. All are enormous challenges for every company today! Since we can’t “control” or “micro-manage” employees, nor do we really want to, best prac ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Dec 11, 2025