2027 Workplace Outlook: Emerging Trends, Legal Risks & HR Priorities

As organizations prepare for 2027, HR leaders are navigating evolving workplace expectations, shifting legal requirements, and the ongoing pressures of managing people and maintaining compliance. Yet even as new issues emerge, familiar risks continue to demand attention.

The challenge isn’t simply keeping up with what’s changing. It’s knowing which developments deserve attention, where organizations remain vulnerable, and what to prioritize to reduce exposure.

Join Phill Lipari, Partner at Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, Lauren Lipari, Senior HR Business Partner at Spotify, and Katherin Nukk-Freeman, Co-Founder and President of SHIFT, for a practical, forward-looking discussion of the key takeaways from 2026, the trends shaping the workplace, and the steps organizations can take to strengthen prevention and manager readiness in 2027.

In this session, you’ll learn about:

• Key takeaways from 2026: The workplace and compliance lessons that mattered most.
• Emerging HR and employment law trends for 2027: What’s changing and what employers should watch.
• The growing importance of manager readiness: How organizations are preparing managers and building stronger teams.

Who should attend: HR and People leaders, Employee Relations, Compliance, in-house Legal partners, and organizational leaders responsible for workplace risk and prevention.

SHRM & HRCI Credits available.

If you can’t attend live, register anyway—we’ll send you the recording.

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Panelists

Phillip J. Lipari
Partner, Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C.

Phillip J. Lipari advises businesses – from small companies to Fortune 100 corporations – on a wide range of employment law matters. As a leader of the Firm’s Investigations Practice Group, Phill conducts and oversees complex workplace investigations involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, bullying, and compliance concerns. He developed this expertise while serving as a Director of Employee Relations at UBS and now brings that in-house perspective to his practice at NFC. Phill regularly serves as a neutral outside investigator, assesses and strengthens clients’ investigative processes, and trains internal investigation teams.

In addition, Phill advises clients on day-to-day employment matters, including contracts, workplace policies, leave and accommodation issues, onboarding, discipline, and performance management. He also delivers engaging, interactive training programs for executives, managers, HR professionals, and employees on anti-discrimination and harassment compliance, HR best practices, and effective management and communication techniques.

Lauren Lipari
Senior HR Business Partner, Spotify

Lauren is a Senior HR Business Partner at Spotify, where she works with technology leaders to build strong teams, develop leaders, and make decisions about how their organizations are set up. She helps leaders navigate growth and change while keeping both business goals and people in mind.

Before joining Spotify, Lauren held HR leadership roles at American Express, working across a large global organization. Throughout her career, she has focused on building strong leadership teams, working through complex organizational challenges, and helping leaders make thoughtful decisions about their people and businesses.

Katherin Nukk-Freeman
Co-Founder & President, SHIFT HR Compliance Training

As a practicing employment law attorney for over 30 years, Katherin has grown her highly successful Employment Law firm, Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C., by focusing her practice on working with clients to proactively address and effectively manage workplace issues, including harassment and discrimination complaints and unconscious bias awareness. Katherin strives to avoid costly litigation and create more inclusive teams through high-quality training that helps employees be more mindful of their actions and decisions in the workplace.

In 2014, leveraging her years of experience as a trusted advisor to corporate leaders and organizations, Katherin co-founded SHIFT to provide innovative, engaging, and impactful online training services for employers of all sizes, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

Katherin is the Co-Founder and President of SHIFT HR Compliance Training and a passionate advocate for building better workplaces. As a dynamic employment law advisor, training instructor, and industry thought leader, Katherin partners with clients to develop and implement learning journeys that educate and evolve workplace culture, incorporate strategies to manage risk, comply with the law, foster an inclusive workplace, and create a better workplace for all.