Promoting and enhancing the quality of impartial workplace investigations.™
This is a recording of the AWI Training Institute: Ethics Module.
Alex Sperry, AWI-CH is a Sacramento, California-based employment lawyer and workplace investigator. Alex began his career as a litigator with several prominent law firms. In 2013, he shifted his practice to focus on conducting impartial investigations for public and private sector employers. Alex has conducted investigations in a variety of settings, including state and local government, high-technology companies, healthcare, law enforcement, and educational institutions. Alex is an active member of AWI and regularly serves as faculty at AWI's Training Institutes. He is also the current Co-Chair of AWI's Institute Committee. Alex himself graduated from the Institute in 2014, and subsequently earned his AWI-CH designation. Alex is also recognized for his robust training and coaching practices. He has developed and delivered trainings to thousands of managers and non-supervisory employees on a wide array of topics, including conducting workplace investigations, managing employees with disabilities, and harassment/discrimination prevention. In addition, Alex frequently provides one-on-one employee coaching, where he works with individuals to maximize their successes in the workplace. For the past several years, Alex has been selected by Super Lawyers for inclusion on its list of top-rated Northern California attorneys from 2020-2024.
Christina J. Ro-Connolly, AWI-CH is a Partner with Oppenheimer Investigations Group LLP. Tina has over a decade of labor and employment law experience and joined the firm after serving for 11 years at the Contra Costa County Counsel’s Office, advising departments on legal matters for a workforce of approximately 9,000 employees. Such legal matters included employee discipline, employee complaints, discrimination complaints, wage and hour complaints, alleged labor violations, and labor negotiations. Tina has conducted numerous investigations with Oppenheimer Investigations Group, many of which included allegations against elected officials and high-level executives. Tina leads AB1825 trainings, workplace investigator trainings, and bias trainings and also conducts audits of internal workplace investigations. Tina is a member of the California State Bar and the Contra Costa County Bar Association, a sustaining member of AWI, and a graduate of AWI’s Training Institute for Workplace Investigators. Tina is also an AWI Certificate Holder (AWI-CH) and has also received the certificate from T9 Mastered to conduct Title IX investigations. Tina is also a Member of the Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association, Labor and Employment Section, as well as a member of the AWI Institute Committee.