Sue Ann Van Dermyden Presents at the AWI Virtual Institute

Senior Partner Sue Ann Van Dermyden will present a session on “Report Writing” at the 2025 AWI Virtual Training Institute for Workplace Investigators. Her training takes place on October 17, 2025, at 11:00 AM PDT.

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An eight-day course followed by a series of tests over two days.
In keeping with our mission to promote and enhance the quality of impartial workplace investigations, we invite you to join the intensive Training Institute for Workplace Investigators, the gold standard in our industry. The Virtual Institute consists of eight days of training, including 10 hours of small group sessions with our experienced faculty, and two days of tests. Students who pass the test will receive a certificate indicating that they have mastered the materials and will be permitted to place the designation ‘AWI-CH’ after their name.
Virtual Training Institute Schedule

Virtual Institute Faculty

AWI Institute Faculty are recognized experts in their fields, have completed the Institute Training, passed all of the assessment tests and hold the designation of Association of Workplace Investigators Certificate Holder (AWI-CH). Below is a list of the full-time and part-time faculty that will be present at the Virtual Institute.

Virtual Training Institute Chair

  • Alex Sperry, Law Office of Alexander Sperry

Faculty

  • Susan Arduengo, Arduengo Investigations, PLC

  • Arti Bhimani, Axis Workplace Investigations

  • Lisa Bowman, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

  • Deborah Brown, Brown Law and Consulting, PLLC

  • Kathy Eppright, Andre, Morris & Buttery

  • Kathryn Hartrick, Hartrick Employment Law & Investigations

  • Demetri Kachafanas, Cape Breton Regional Municipality

  • Eli Makus, Van Dermyden Makus Law Corporation

  • Elena Paraskevas-Thadani, EPT Legal, LLC

  • Wyatt Ryder, Cisco Systems, Inc.

  • Vanessa Sisto, Johnson & Johnson

  • Christine Slattery, Miller Nash LLP

  • Ilona Turner, Oppenheimer Investigations Group LLP

  • Julika Weiss, Weiss Workplace Investigators

  • Lizbeth “Beth” West, Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin

  • Katie Wilson, The E.W. Scripps Company

  • Jonaura Wisdom, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

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