Mark Nelson is a regional director and senior consultant for EverythingHR, the nation’s oldest employer association, which provides in-house services to include HR consulting, training, coaching, surveys, and advocacy to California-based companies. He draws on more than twenty years of experience as a labor and employment attorney, HR consultant, and college instructor when guiding CHROs and junior HR staff alike on HR best practices that ensures compliance, with special emphasis on fair and consistent treatment of employees to avoid escalation of claims that might expose the company.

Mark earned his bachelor’s degree in Humanities from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a master’s degree in English at the University of Lancaster in the U.K. (while on a fellowship), and a law degree from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he was the Senior Note and Comment Editor of the Iowa Law Review.