In recent years, the standards of acceptable workplace conduct have changed dramatically. Professional or personal misconduct by executives and managers including toxic workplaces, bullying, harassment, racism and microaggressions are tough to pin down because they tend to occur between the lines of formal HR regulations and guidelines. Nonetheless, they have tremendously damaging effects when it comes to employee morale and public perception as well as fiduciary trust. One of the most effective steps a company or brand can take to repair the damage is to bring in a third-party to work with your team to investigate and evaluate the extent of the toxicity, make recommendations on solutions and lay out a strategy on how to communicate a new non-toxic workplace vision going forward. Communications and public relations specialists are well suited to collaborate with executive teams and human resources managers who are often surprised by very sudden and public allegations by current and former employees about toxic work environments that tend to reveal themselves with a bang in the media.

As the leader of investigative journalism teams and the author of multiple Canadian journalistic and ethical codes of conduct and behaviour, Ron Waksman has the experience and credentials to conduct confidential, unbiased, non-legal, fact-finding investigations into contentious allegations of toxicity in the workplace. As a communications specialist, Ron also offer crisis management, media relations and strategic messaging expertise to navigate such a crisis. We work closely and confidentially with your own management team to deliver these services at a much lower cost than most legal firms.