Empowering a Global Workforce: HR and Security's Essential Role in Duty of Care Webinar

As businesses expand globally, ensuring a diverse workforce's safety, well-being, and resilience grows more complex. This session bridges the expertise of HR and security professionals to offer an integrated approach to Duty of Care. Participants will learn how these two disciplines can work synergistically to create robust frameworks, drive proactive risk management, and foster employee empowerment in today’s unpredictable global environment.

Duty of Care extends beyond a legal requirement—it is a strategic priority that protects the workforce, reinforces organizational resilience, and strengthens business continuity in a volatile world. This session empowers attendees to understand, build, and implement a comprehensive Duty of Care strategy that meets the demands of today's global workforce and equips employees.

Learning Objectives: 

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

1. Explore Duty of Care in a Globalized World: Understand the critical importance of Duty of Care beyond compliance as a strategic imperative in a global context.
2. Effective Collaboration between HR and Security: Learn methods for HR and security teams to collaboratively design and implement Duty of Care programs tailored to diverse workforces.
3. Risk Mitigation Across Borders: Gain practical tools and actionable strategies for addressing risks to employees working in or traveling to high-risk areas.
4. Emerging Trends and Technologies: Discover cutting-edge trends and technologies that are reshaping the landscape of Duty of Care, from risk intelligence to real-time safety alerts.

Presenters*

Solveiga Jaskunas is a seasoned HR professional and career coach with over fifteen years of experience in nonprofit and for-profit organizations. She holds dual master’s degrees in Industrial Psychology and Human Resources Management and PHR and SHRM-CP certifications. As an immigrant to the United States, she overcame language barriers and numerous rejections before climbing the HR ladder to senior leadership roles. Her journey motivated her to mentor fellow immigrants and to start her own consultancy, which focuses on HR consulting, career coaching, training, speaking, and network referral services for organizations and individuals.  

A graduate of DC SHRM's Senior Leadership program, Solveiga's passion lies in coaching immigrant professionals and helping employers make their workplaces more inclusive. She has also dedicated her time to aiding refugees, homeless children, and at-risk youth. Her story has reached a broader audience through speaking engagements domestically and internationally, in which she has shared her journey, offering hope and encouragement to other immigrant professionals. 

Her recent speaking event at GSX reached participants from more than 90 countries. She has spoken at national and international events such as The Expat Women Summit in March and October 2024, HR Global Summit 2024, HR Week in Lithuania 2024, SHRM Talent 2025, GSX2025, DisruptHR and more). Solveiga was recently featured in Security Magazine as one of three leaders with distinct LinkedIn communication styles. 

Alvar Orellana McBride, CPP is the CEO of Griffin Risk and Director of ASIS International Latam & Caribbean Board, a Board-certified security professional in risk management, crisis management,  corporate security management, and cyber and electronic security. A key partner of the company’s board and functional leaders, an enabler in developing strategy with a high and positive impact on the business results, personnel, and customer-oriented facilitating a zero-incident culture environment and experienced in leading multicultural and diverse teams with solid and proven results in multinational organizations and fast-paced environments with a highly positive impact in critical environments. 

Throughout his career, he has consistently demonstrated a strategic and results-oriented approach to risk management and security, conceiving, designing, and executing comprehensive global programs that have significantly enhanced security postures and mitigated risks. As Global Director of Corporate Security at DiDi Mobility, he successfully developed and implemented global initiatives in travel security, executive protection, risk management, incident response, and investigations. He also played a pivotal role in defining and implementing the InApp security strategy, which focused on user protection. At Google, he also spearheaded significant upgrades to data center security operations across the region, standardizing policies, procedures, and compliance measures and improving incident investigation programs. He further showcased his strategic capabilities by conceiving and developing a global security operational audit program for Google data centers. His tenure at DHL was marked by similar successes in leading security operations, building high-performing teams, and ensuring compliance with a complex array of security policies, standards, and regulations. 

He has spoken at national companies' motivational events and international such as ASIS International Latam 2022, IV Forum WIS Latam, Rio de Janeiro 2023, Global Leaders Summit 2024 "The Age Of AI & Sustainable Future," and recently the “ASIS LATAM & CA 2024 Integrated Security Congress”.

*Note: Speakers and content are subject to change without notice.

Topic: Risk Management, Managing Organizations

Credit Information: Completion of this webinar is eligible for 1 CPE credit.  CPE credits for ASIS-sponsored webinars will be updated in your user profile within 48 hours of completion.  Self-reporting of CPE credits is not required.