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Ask the Experts - Coverage & Culture: Legal, Insurance & HR

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) (MST)

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Coverage & Culture: Legal, Insurance, & HR

This "Coverage & Culture" session of Ask the Experts brings together nonprofit attorneys, insurance specialists, and HR professionals for one essential conversation: how to protect your organization while building a people-first culture.

This session opens with a fast-moving panel on compliance, liability, workplace risk, and employee relations — followed by breakout office hours where you can speak directly with experts about contracts, policies, coverage gaps, staff challenges, and evolving regulations.

Because a strong mission needs both protection and healthy culture.


Meet Your Experts

Deanna Longtin

Founder & CEO, emPowered Workplace

Deanna Longtin founded emPowered Workplace after more than three decades of running small businesses and navigating firsthand the frustration, burnout, and complexity that come with persistent employee issues. Despite her legal background and business expertise, she saw how challenging it was for leaders to align teams, address conflicts early, and maintain a healthy workplace culture while also trying to grow an organization.
Driven to create a better path, Deanna launched emPowered Workplace to help businesses manage employee challenges with clarity, fairness, and confidence. She specializes in bridging the gap between organizational goals and human dynamics, offering customized, expert‑driven strategies that prevent issues before they escalate and support strong, engaged teams.
Deanna’s approach is grounded in both legal insight and a deep understanding of people. Her goal: to ease the burden on leaders so they can focus on mission and growth—while creating workplaces where employees feel respected, empowered, and able to thrive
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Sarah Scott

Lead Organizational Development Consultant, TriNet

Sarah Scott is a Lead Organizational Development Consultant at TriNet, based in Phoenix, Arizona, with over 20 years of experience in HR outsourcing and the PEO industry. She partners with executive leaders and HR teams to align human capital strategies with organizational goals, building trusted relationships that drive employee and business success. Sarah has supported organizations ranging from start-ups to multi-location enterprises and brings deep expertise in employee relations, compliance, and HR strategy. She holds a BA in Industrial Relations and is PHR- and SHRM-CP–certified.



David Strickland

Director of Nonprofit Services, Giving Payroll

David is the Director of Nonprofit Services at Giving Payroll, a role he has held since 2019. He has specialized in nonprofit payroll since 2015 and has been providing training and education to nonprofits since 2009. David brings a strong working knowledge of payroll, HR operations, compliance, and fraud prevention. His work centers on strengthening payroll systems, improving internal controls, and helping nonprofits protect both their mission and their leadership



Brady Young

Founder, Thrive Coaching and Consulting 

Thrive provides fractional HR guidance and support to small and medium sized organizations. Thrive helps companies lacking an effective HR function or where there is an opportunity to bolster the people strategy and practices to help an organization to reach maximum potential.  “We get hired to fix things then we do the really important stuff – making a company an employer of choice.”  In addition to fractional support, Thrive can provide tailored leadership development, equipping top performers to be able to effectively lead others.

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Tuesday, September 1, 2026 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) (MST)
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