Center for Workplace Solutions

The Center for Workplace Solutions, Inc. is a professional services firm, primarily active in the small business, government, and education sectors. While our focus is Human Resource Management, we also provide a range of consultative support for managers and organizations. We value and strive for the kind of systemic and organizational improvement... that is rooted in enhanced comprehension of organizational behaviors and a keen understanding of employee performance and its importance to any business or organization. Founder and lead consultant, Dr. John Coverdale has thirty years experience in the N.Y. Metro area, as a high impact Practitioner, Business Consultant, Professor, and Researcher. With multiple professional skills in organizational behavior, workplace dispute and conflict resolution, human resource management, employee relations and employee training and development, he is driven by the ever increasing needs of businesses and organizations when it comes to effectively managing people and the environments in which they work. A faculty member at Stony Brook University's College of Business since 1996, where he is also the student chapter advisor for the Society for Human Resource Management, John has taught graduate level business courses on human resource management, organizational behavior, conflict resolution, change management, employment law, workplace diversity, and labor relations. He completed his undergraduate studies in Business Administration at the University of New Haven, has a master's degree in Human Resource Management and Labor Relations from the New York Institute of Technology, as well as an MBA from Dowling College. After studying law for one year, he returned to Dowling College to complete his doctoral studies.Read More